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It's a systemic problem. The issue is that people need platforms and that need supports the monopolistic rent-seeking etc.

The solution is going to be decentralized protocols.

In Stripe's case, wide deployment of scalable cryptocurrency will make their business obsolete.




Wide deployment of a scalable and useful crypto will make a lot of things obsolete.


While I think this would be great, is there any example of this in the real world? I can't think of anything that is gaining even a minutia of traction that is like this.

And I'm not going to count people hoping the technology catches up with the ideals here.




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