Thanks for the summary. The egregious attempts to accrue data these days are getting annoying. > They author is debating using distributed ledgers for security

Thanks for the summary. The egregious attempts to accrue data these days are getting annoying. > They author is debating using distributed ledgers for security trading, which I don't think anyone is seriously considering. https://www.tzero.com/ https://www.tzero.com/ You mean like this? It's interesting the way commentators tend to take all pieces of some random slice of the blockchain space as "the way things are always will be and must be by definition", especially without even seeming to realise that's what they're doing as you say with the example of assuming that you can only possibly use credit rather than debit instruments on a DLT.