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Comment by ArtTimeInvestor

I think this is about the stage we are at in regard to decentralized finance at the moment.

I often think about how strangely archaic our financial system is.

For example when you start a new job and the first payment comes in after 4 weeks on the job. In the future, the payments will flow realtime.

Or when I want to check the price of some stock and the stock market is closed, like it is most of the time. In the future, prices will be set on a global market with no downtime.

Or when I talk to people who run online businesses and the plethora of problems they have with credit card payments. Because a credit car payment is not a payment. It's a something where the receiver of the money is held responsible when the one who pays plays dirty tricks on them. In the future, an electronic payment will be simply a payment.

Let's hope we don't need over 40 years from theory to reality like it took for the internet.

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