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Donzo

Do you really believe that there's not going to be a market for TRUSTLESS wills?

For tax-free, trustless estate transfers?

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Rich people just don't know that Ethereum does this, that it's built into it.

Everyone (Main Street) just thinks it's a crypto currency right now.

What about TRUSTLESS gambling?

Hmm...

Maybe there'd be a market for that?

We could literally set up a company that does this for rich people right now and charge them a percentage of their estate. Some people are so untrusting that they would pay a percentage of the estate for such a service. Not to mention the tax advantages!

Now, the high volatility of crypto is an impediment to this model, but after the blood bath (possibly starting today), values will hopefully stabilize a bit and make the values a little more stable and predictable.

How does a mechanism change tax rules?

Everytime you park the crypto in fiat, you face tax burderns.

The Etherium Network imposes no such burdens.

Depending on where you live... it still does. It's just hidden. No try buying a house with those ethers and get away with it.

So your libertarian utopia of cryptocurrencies being uncontrolled has now become an instrument of former off-shorers to hide their dollars/euros/yen/kittens.

Yeah, yeah, we'll write all that stuff in the fine print.

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