Presumably? They are not a socialistic public good, they are a capitalistic company whose goal is to make themselves profit. It is not their job to make you mon

Presumably? They are not a socialistic public good, they are a capitalistic company whose goal is to make themselves profit. It is not their job to make you money. Capitalism works because trade is not a zero sum game, so it is normally possible that everyone profits. Here we seem to have hit the normal edge case where one company may refuse to participate if they would not profit (including the loss to their reputation and the future earnings potential it buys, etc). Unless someone does profit directly from the information, as I think that sounds dangerously close to being insider trading. Anyways, the situation sounds a lot like Bitcoin to me, from what I hear about the delays and costs of using the exchanges on that platform. And that has not yet been made illegal.