Of course DeFi is playing with fire. And of course a lot of people are going to get badly burnt. But the analogy is closer than you think. People still get b

Of course DeFi is playing with fire. And of course a lot of people are going to get badly burnt. But the analogy is closer than you think. People still get badly burnt by real fire every day. Without coal fired power stations, blast furnaces and internal combustion engines we would not have modern society. If currently thinking is correct, without cooking food on fire there would be no intelligent hairless apes contemplating a future when DeFi actually does something useful. PS: As the article says, transaction fees are of the order of $10..$20 per trade. DeFi trades derivatives in crypto currencies that have found no useful niche whatsoever (bitcoin being an exception, if you regard being the currency of choice for illegal activities as useful). In that environment, the only people who are reliably making money are getting those fees.