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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Here is what I don’t understand about DEFI?
by
hatshepsut93
on 16/08/2020, 03:34:53 UTC
How can you loan money without trust? Background checks, credit history. I understand if someone uploads collateral like Bitcoin or Ethereum, But then why not just spend the bitcoin or Ethereum? Why take out a loan?

Baiscally, these loans is just an instrument for speculating, they are indeed impractical from a consumer's point of view. DeFi is not a replacement for traditional finance, because it's strictly limited to dealing with blockchain assets. And you can't tokenize any sort of non-blockchain asset without having some trusted third party. So, DeFi is just a parallel, very limited finance in the world of crypto. People who are saying that it will replace traditional finance are either lying or they don't understand how either of those things work.