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Or market for insurance policies. Or bonds. Or stocks. Regulation is clearing up and there are many biting at the bit for this. The disruption of financial markets may not happen tomorrow, but once it does it will go fast in each market. If there are more efficient venues, competitive market participants will start moving once they realize that they will be at a competitive disadvantage if they don't. When I say efficiency, I am not talking in technical terms and not necessarily on the kind of environments we see on public permissionless chains. So let's keep transaction finality and computational efficiency out of scope for a moment.

Think of chains as subnets on the internet. The gaps will be bridged to allow seamless transfers between them.

I've been wrong before but to me this is bound to happen. How many businesses in competitive areas have fax as a preferred method of communication today?

Don't take what I'm saying as an argument in favor of buying ZRX tokens. I do think it's a cool project, albeit IMO could have done better without the utility token as an inherent component. But that's more about the business model than the tech. It will probably be another boom and bust before we see the leading protocols emerging.



> Regulation is clearing up and there are many biting at the bit for this.

In what way is regulation actively harming your ability to purchase shares of a legitimate operating business without overextending yourself financially? Please be specific.


By "clearing up" I mean that we are starting to see how regulation is being applied, not that it is being relaxed.

I actually don't see how your question relates to what I wrote at all..? Sorry, English not native language etc. Please clarify if I wooshed.

To clarify, many, especially investors, bigger businesses and financial institutions have been cautious because of regulatory uncertainty.

There's still ways to go, but it's happening. The sky is far from blue but the wind is blowing, so to say.


The ability to compensate someone who is creating value in a network with ownership of said network (eg giving an early uber driver, or Airbnb host, options or equity.) this is currently not possible to do in the US, but is possible with crypto networks.


> How many businesses in competitive areas have fax as a preferred method of communication today?

Oh just large legal and healthcare companies[1].

[1] https://www.popsci.com/why-fax-machines-still-exist




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