But in many other ways the important thing is the entry in the database. (It’s not a very good database.) In many ways the important thing here is the house: You have a key to the front door your stuff is there your neighbors will be unsurprised to see you leaving the house in the morning and would be surprised to see someone else coming back in. But your ownership of that house is probably written down in some database in the US this often means there’s a record of you buying the house-your title-in a filing cabinet in the basement of some county clerk’s office. If you own a house, things are slightly different. If you own stock, what you have is an entry on DTCC’s list entitling you to some of the shares DTCC holds, and it has an entry on a company’s list of how many shares it owns. Joel Weber, Editor, Bloomberg Businessweekġ These intermediaries include the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., which owns most of the shares of most US companies on behalf of everyone else. What follows is his brilliant explanation of what this maddening, often absurd, and always fascinating technology means, and where it might go. Which is why we asked the finest finance writer around, Matt Levine of Bloomberg Opinion, to write a cover-to-cover issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, something a single author has done only one other time in the magazine’s 93-year history (“ What Is Code?,” by Paul Ford). And if crypto isn’t going away, we’d better attempt to understand it. But crypto has dug itself into finance, into technology, and into our heads. If you’re a skeptic, this upside-down world is just a modern Ponzi scheme that’s going to end badly-and the recent “crypto winter” is evidence of its long-overdue ending.
If you’re a disciple, this new dimension is the future.
There was a moment not so long ago when I thought, “What if I’ve had this crypto thing all wrong?” I’m a doubting normie who, if I’m being honest, hasn’t always understood this alternate universe that’s been percolating and expanding for more than a decade now.
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