What Would a WeChat Replacement Need?
I think people that feel WeChat is simply a social network don&#x27;t understand WeChat. Though the article doesn&#x27;t say this, the comments here and popular opinion generally think that.<p>From my time visiting China I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s possible to live, in the urban areas, without WeChat. Payments are basically all through WeChat; I found places that didn&#x27;t take Visa&#x2F;Mastercard (or even know what those were, although that may have just been my pronunciation).<p>So the answer to this article is simple:<p>- For China: CCP approval<p>- For America&#x2F;Europe: WeChat would never happen, unless there was severe monopolisation that allowed a company to roll something like WeChat out successfully, or the federal government &#x2F; national governments mandated it<p>The article discusses how a WeChat replacement may be done using blockchain, not what a WeChat replacement needs to be successful (as the title would imply), or what may be the most technically viable way of doing it.