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摘要

Jack Dorsey walks on stage at the British Library. Black T-shirt. Black jeans. 'Sick' trainers. The global uniform of tech. His beard is trimmed to Himalayan guru length. He speaks deliberately, in a low tone. He processes questions before answering. Facebook's data lapses and revelations about Uber's 'bro' culture have poisoned the reputation of 'Big Digital', and the Twitter co-founder treads carefully. Dorsey's 'other' venture is the mobile payments business Square. There's an Apple-like product purity about Square's payment terminal, and it contains similarly awesome computing power. Square's new 'instant deposit' functionality is so powerful, and so integrated with the wider credit-risk and financial system, that merchants can receive payments into their accounts instantly (rather than waiting for banks to clear the funds). That, as they say in Digital Land, is non-trivial stuff.