RE: The need for decentralized exchanges
You are absolutley right.
Decentralized exchange are a really vital developement for crypto-world.
First, decentralized exchange are really necessary to ensure the absence of a third-trust-part (as requested by crypto's original concept, particullary in Satoshi Nakamoto's original paper).
Second, decentralized exchanges are the only thing that can survive to government ban (you can't find a central failure point to hit). Particullary in case government regolarizes exchange and force them to adopt fiscal-individuation measures (know-your-customer, or KYC).
Third, if there isn't a central cold wallet storage crypto fluxes are very difficultier to control, increasing system's privacy level.
At the moment, decentralized exchange are difficult to use and unrelevant in terms of volume. Also, they have problems for liquidity management. But I believe that as governments turn theyr eyes on Crypto exchanges, developement will go faster.
I agree. The governments of the world are gearing up their attacks on cryptocurrencies and the exchanges are an easy way to target them. DEX could well explode out of government action. We know the bankers are threatened by these tokens which means they are sending the government hacks out to do the dirty work.
Regulation means putting it in the hands of the bankers.
Agree. Bitcoin tried to decentralyze payment system, and the moment has come to decentralize crypto market with DEX for exactly the same reasons: exchanges are untrustable just like banks. We have had mt.gox scam, Bitfinex-tether questions (only hypothesis at the moment.. But anyway very important for market stability), bittrex confirmation issues, kraken slowdown.. A lot of elements that underline the needy of a second decentralization wave, directed to replace "traditional" exchanges.
Anyway, personally I don't think that bank are feeling so threatened by cryptos. For a lot of reasons:
If governments were so scaried by crypto, they could act exactly as China and kill the crypto economy banning all exchange-market in any moment. But they aren't doing. I am Italian and I was expecting European Central bank to strongly and fast react to all this, but at a public level nothing of this has still happened. For the moment, crypto sector is young and they are probably sill evaluating situation.
But, we need to continue one step at a time. Let's see what happens with futures..
All valid points.
However, I feel bankers do not fear if they feel they can gain control of it, hence much of the government speculation of crackdown.
You are right, we will see what happens. There is a lot going on with this market and the next 6-12 months will see great changes.
Yes. 12 months ago market cap of all crypto was under 15$ billion and fork-mania didn't exist. Things are changing really fast in this market, we can only observe and continue to study, study and study again
Flexibility and agility are key.
We dont know what will happen, just things will be different.
This is huge
I study economy at university and I have held a workshop about fiscal aspects of bitcoin, and preparing the exposition i have clearly understand this: Exchanges are the perfect gateway for governments. They are the only thing that can really centralize all cryptos and crypto users.