Hello steemians!
There is a new article on Cointelegraph, titled "The Ethereumization Of Wall Street Is Inevitable: Expert Take".
The article is an opinion piece by Vincent Launay, who has a title "finance specialist at the World Bank in Washington DC" at the bottom of a page.
In this piece, Vincent, obviously, sings praises to Ethereum.
He talks about how the platform will make investment banks obsolete and how easy it is to create a smart contract that will emulate bond dynamics in a way that anyone would be able to invest without the need to have a spare $20k.
In short, Wall Street will be overthrown by Ethereum.
The basics of the argument are largely correct - blockchain and smart contracts really are great technology that will revolutionize the financial industry...
...but it won't be Ethereum.
What annoys me in this type of articles is how little research these "experts" do before publishing their opinions.
In the beginning of the piece Vincent states that Ethereum "makes more than 80 percent of the market. Out of the 580 tokens out there, 475 are on the Ethereum Blockchain.". He also provides the following chart:
and cites Coinmarketcap.com as his source.
Now I am no expert, but I think that relying on CMC as a sole source to provide the most accurate information is quite not expert-like.
So I went to Cryptofresh.com, which is a block explorer for Bitshares, clicked on the "assets" tab and found that there are 940 active assets on the Bitshares platform.
For Ethereum, google returned few different sources ranging from 200 to 475.
How in the world did CMC list only 18 for Bitshares I have no idea, but it shows the importance of an actual research in order to not look like a fool.
And I wouldn't even write this post if it was only that.
Vincent suggests that Ethereum will take on the $3.5 trillion bond market because of the easyness of performing an ICO and allowing companies to meet investors. Moreover, it is possible to create bonds with smart contracts...
Remember Crypto Kitties?
You could go to blocktivity.info right now and see that although it is processing roughly the same amount of transactions as Bitshares, Ethereum is at half capacity. It doesn't take much to grind the whole platform to a halt.
Few weeks ago I've attended a Microsoft Blockchain As a Service workshop. They talked about their own project for consortium blockchains, called Coco. I won't explain what it is and why do they do it, but I'll tell you this:
In their research into Ethereum, Microsoft succeeded to squeeze a maximum of 1600 transactions per second on a private network with easiest consensus.
For comparison Bitshares can handle more than 3000 tx/s right now with a theoretical top at 100,000 tx/s.
How Ethereum is supposed to handle the bond market loads Vincent doesn't explain. Because he has no idea what he is talking about.
The only contender I see on the market right now is Bitshares.
Do your own research, guys, and don't beleive the "experts"
Cheers!
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Article source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/the-ethereumization-of-wall-street-is-inevitable-expert-take/amp