• Sunflier@lemmy.world
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    2 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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      52 minutes 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?

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        16 minutes ago

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