Well, Elon is known for his stance. He’s a fan of Dogecoin,
that’s from his Apr-2 post. He may have posted out of jest but what is emerging
is that he may be interested in . , and any other
tech based off the distribution of . Analysts, governments and
investors say the technology will shape lives.
The IMF and World Bank for example do mention ,
and in almost all reports touching on disruption of
traditional financial systems. Thing is, the financial system is at a cusp, it’s
yearning for a change and that means overhauling of the underlying and
incorporating the latest trends advocating transparency, speed and well, low
cost. is ahead and is trying experimenting with DeFi. Will it
flourish? Only time has the answers.
For now, it’s all about Elon Musk, the maverick leader and
brains behind both Tesla and Space X. Yesterday he stirred the community and
because of all the attention his on-word tweet generated, Vitalik Buterin had
to reply inviting Musk to the next Devcon scheduled for Oct 2019 while at the
same time listing some opportunities that the network can do like “A globally accessible financial system,
including payments, of value, also more advanced stuff like insurance,
Identity: “sign in with Facebook” -> “sign in with an
account, no intermediaries”. Also web of trust…and we
reckon, many more because, well, there are infinite opportunities thanks to
smart contracting as all things that can be recorded can be stored in the
.
Here’s Why Twitter Lit up, People Are Rooting for Ethereum
Why this interest? Why the reaction and optimism around
? It’s for a simple reason. From an investor’s perspective, many of
them don’t want to risk the next move up. That’s FOMO right there. The dreaded
fear of missing out on a profit generating, moon-sling like those of late 2017
more so with the awareness that ETH crowd-funded, raising $15 million, made the
network open source with each coin retailing at 30 cents.
Secondly, the increasing demand for public of which . as a people’s project is an improvement of and through it developers from any part of the world can participate in improving the source code. That means more and more people and organization are rooting for the network despite the proliferation of so-called “ 2.0 Killers”.
Most of them front speed and scalability at the expense of
decentralization and open-source operations. Worse still, most are backed by VC
capital through SAFTs where their were sold through secret deals allowing
for plutocratic governance especially when have voting weights. During
these private sessions, the price and amount of sold are not divulged to
the public despite the transparency code expected from companies. As
a put it, by the time ordinary
investors participate through secondary market, the prices of these have
been marked out profiting the wealthy:
“Almost all were and are funded by VCs and the wealthy via SAFTs, often through secret deals where price and amount of are not disclosed. The public is generally not allowed to participate until the get marked up 5x, 10x or 100x before an exchange listing. So you will end up with the vast majority of owned by a very few, already very wealthy people.”
Bottom line is this, may be presently slow, but it
secure. It may not be scalable, but it is permission less and participatory.
Besides, it is developing and has the backing of the developer community.
Published at Wed, 01 May 2019 10:15:32 +0000
