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by highwaylights 1463 days ago
Yeah, but de-fi had already been done successfully in the early 2000's well before Bitcoin and still didn't pan out in the end.
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Done successfully and didn't pan out?!
Exactly!

The infrastructure worked. The concept did exactly what it was supposed to. 100% successful.

.. and yet lending to unreliable borrowers that no-one else wanted was still a stupid idea.

What are you referring to?
P2P lending.

Or “De-Fi” as the children call it.