The financial system that we are so familiar with today is known as traditional finance. It is still largely centralized because it still relies on central authorities, predominantly banks and governments. However, traditional finance has several flaws and I will discuss them in this chapter.
In Chapter 2, you learned about the motivations behind blockchain and how it solves the trust issue that people have with central authorities. Using blockchain, we can build a new financial ...
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