The question is are we ready for it? Do you have the capacity to engage and build access??
The good thing about bitcoin and crypto is that we are in a world that money doesn't care about who you are. Whatever your race is, your religion, your gender, your nationality basically nothing about you matters, in real world if you are a very rich hedge fund kid with millions of dollars to play, you get backing from big names and you do whatever you want to do and you could lose tens of millions and still be bailed out by your father's business friends, that is how it works.
However in this world you could be Jeff Bezos and if you lose money you lose money and there is nothing that could help you, no bail outs, no tax cuts, it is purely on your hands to make money. This is why decentralized finance will over throw traditional finance in time, obviously it will not be just few days but it is going to happen one day or another and I am sure of it.
Very well said @SirLancelot. Cool name. You should join us in the BarnBridge Discord and
the thread I have made about it. Please chip in with what you think about it. If you are into yield platforms, you'd know that BarnBridge has had a lot of attention the past few weeks.
We need people to have informed discussion on the DeFi phenomena. Like you said, it gives you the ability to use money in ways that only privileged bankers could till now. This is quite the double edged sword though. It is hard to tell if it will turn out to be really beneficial or just another fad.
While i wouldn't say that it'll overthrow traditional finance, it definitely has the potential to become an alternative. How it gets used depends a lot on whether people understand and build on it to have enough of a stake or whether it'll quickly get corporatized. As an example, how do we ensure that the decentralized governance doesn't end up as big money buying votes to effect outcomes in ways that benefit just them?