Quote from: throwawayman on March 02, 2019, 05:26:22 PM

So I know some members of this community like to participate in a good old bank bashing session and while I do agree we need to reform our financial system and disruptive technology
like bitcoin and other decentralized innovations are going to part of that I'd like to open up a bit of an open ended discussion about how you guys envision the important services that banks
and other financial institutions provide are going to be changed/replaced.

So for example loans are extremely important for upward economic mobility, is anyone aware of financial institutions that currently offer loans in bitcoin? Is this something that will only
happen when bitcoin has large usage comparable to fiat in order to be stable enough for an institution to even consider giving a loan?

Is there any novel solutions that make a loan self executing via smart contracts or will we always have to have trust trust when it comes to these kind of transactions?

What is the general sentiment regarding custodial services for people's bitcoin so they don't have to be concerned about storing it them selves?
Are there any examples of companies already successfully doing this?

Another reason people tend to open bank accounts rather than store money themselves is that they can get their money back in the event of being scammed
(a sense of security really). So is there any examples of companies providing insurance for people's bitcoin?

So there's several questions to get this kind of conversation started. Feel free to answer as many as you like or just give your own take on the topic in general.

Cheers.

Regarding with the lending point
When you come to the bank to get a loan
The bank is asking you for adequate guarantees ..!
Think with me how these guarantees will be formatted with the crypto system?
With comprehensive adoption , these issues will be resolved and banks will be an important part of this system.