• Sunflier@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Ethereum has the potential to carry real world assets on its chain. Why does an share of stock have to go through a clearing house when it could be an L2 on ethereum? A company having a total of 1 million shares is no different from a L2 coin having a total number of 1 million coins. They can even be fractional too.

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      5 hours ago

      Literally every cryptocurrency supports this. But if the real world assets can be seized with a court order, then what’s the point of a blockchain and not just a legally compliant database?

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        2 hours ago

        Bitcoin doesn’t support this. It’s what is being mirrored, yes. But, Ethereum is kinda like the distributed operating system/network that could/would allow 24 hour trading without having a clearing-house middleman.

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          1 hour ago

          You’re talking about real-world assets carried on-chain, right? Bitcoin has supported this for a very very long time.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        but like, man, like… its totally new, like, and like, totally amazing man. you just, like, cant comprehend, man!

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        The true libertarians and anarchists in the room would call out the fact that they are attempting to build a world where governments don’t run courts because governments don’t exist and that all courts would be arbitration courts and decentralized and run by the community. If I have a problem with you, I tell my arbitrator about it, and my arbitrator tells you that I have a problem with you. If you don’t like my arbitrator, then you choose your own arbitrator, and if I don’t like the arbitrator you choose, then the arbitrators choose a third party arbitrator that they both agree on, and we agree to be bound by what that arbitrator says.

        Edit: If you are willing to watch a 22 minute video, this might be of interest to you.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ0Qkhnt6bQ