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Wow! Box office futures are illegal because Max Kieser, the Blockstream shill, tried to start an online exchange in the dot com boom but the US Senate and the m
by kylebenzle 3y ago
Wow! Box office futures are illegal because Max Kieser, the Blockstream shill, tried to start an online exchange in the dot com boom but the US Senate and the motion picture industry shot him down. Saying futures could too easily be manipulated by the studios.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_office_futures https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_office_futures
- yieldcrv 3y agothats a misreading, Canton Fitzgerald tried to do it for real in 2007 and the regulator was all for it, which is what got the MPAA to leverage their lobbying muscle