On the other hand, keeping them separate (the anonymity layer and the blockchain layer) has some huge advantages. In particular, as we've already seen, it allows the blockchain layer to retain legacy compliance and compatibility with commercial APIs while at the same time liberating the anonymity layer so it has the capacity to evolve rapidly in response to real world use. We've already seen this happening - we've seen how much flexibility there is having the functional layers decoupled. If you weld them both together, your "stuck". You can't evolve the properties in one without being ball and chained by legacy interfaces in the other.
I've had this itch for a few weeks now.
There must be a way to separate the MNs income from their owners control of their MNs that generate that income, so that you would create bearer bond type payments into a REIT type structure, so that you could IPO MN income?
If there is so much potential that could be derived from MNs, giving them extra income, this would make a great investment stock. Perhaps a PE of 10 to 15.
Just can't quite figure out how to separate control of the network infrastructure from the MN income to prevent problems with removing decentralisation.
Anonymous corporation stock might be the only way.
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maybe its a simple as using cold storage and multi-sig