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How do you know that regulations are why the banks haven’t gambled away all the money? There’s no law against me gambling away my savings but that doesn’t mean I’ll do it. There’s other incentives in the system, for example the desire to avoid an angry mob of depositors burning your bank to the ground.

Some regulations are good but the ones we have are overburdensome. Even huge startups like Robinhood can’t get it right and the laws around what constitutes a security for ICO offerings are so vague that no one actually knows if they’re breaking the law or not.



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