> careful, protect their reputation, and avoid taking on obvious risks
what you say is true, but system-wide, this gate-guarding by reputable parties costs unimaginable numbers of dollars in fees and delay. Everything you list is obviously desirable except.. it has gone far in the other direction -- disproportionally expensive, too much gatekeeping.
For the two billion new customers in global trade that have emerged in the last twenty years, for commodity transactions.. why pay? For those that want to tie together dubious foreign agenda with market regulation (oil & gas markets), keep your own credit records and regulators.. but dont hold the rest of the world hostage.
crypto is inevitable with these networks, so make some interesting and useful ones. Of course the old system will object.
what you say is true, but system-wide, this gate-guarding by reputable parties costs unimaginable numbers of dollars in fees and delay. Everything you list is obviously desirable except.. it has gone far in the other direction -- disproportionally expensive, too much gatekeeping.
For the two billion new customers in global trade that have emerged in the last twenty years, for commodity transactions.. why pay? For those that want to tie together dubious foreign agenda with market regulation (oil & gas markets), keep your own credit records and regulators.. but dont hold the rest of the world hostage.
crypto is inevitable with these networks, so make some interesting and useful ones. Of course the old system will object.