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Most of these are valid points, but they are some interesting attempts further away from the hype:

Uncollaterized loans:

https://docs.truefi.io/faq/

https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/introducing-goldfinch-crypto...

Fast, feeles, higher tx troughput crypto, NANO:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/lxbhh5/nano_c...




> https://docs.truefi.io/faq/

> https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/introducing-goldfinch-crypto...

Both of these sound like they made a regular bank, or a p2p lending platform. You could make exactly the same thing they're proposing without crypto. The goldfinch one is weird, as it completely glosses over the part of borrower defaults.

> Fast, feeles, higher tx troughput crypto, NANO:

This looks interesting, but the problem is the same as with Ethereum: too many coins, each with different technologies and protocols. Meanwhile, BTC still is the best-known one and the one with the highest market cap. The energy usage problem is not going away anytime soon.




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