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Eddy_Viscosity2today at 8:29 PM1 replyview on HN

Free (minus transaction fee) could be used to describe traditional banking and a lot of other services as well. What will happen if/when this (or any) approach gets really popular is some group will figure out how to control the fee and start ratcheting it up in classic rent-seeking style. Capitalism always finds a way to monopoly.


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abirchtoday at 8:43 PM

Or there will be wholesale fraud similar to how index funds have been hijacked by companies with crazy valuations.