Bitcoin allows you to be your own bank. It allows you to control your finances and enter markets previously limited to the few that could afford it. So when people talk about using tools and practices associated with the fiat way of doing things, it makes people uncomfortable. What is the point of Bitcoin if we hand it over to fund managers and the type of people who screwed over our financial system just ten years ago?
Freedom is about choice, and that includes financial freedom. Individuals with no knowledge of how markets work cannot be expected to watch charts all day, hoping to catch some altcoin pump and increase their total bitcoin holdings. They don’t have the tools, the expertise or the time to compete with people who do it as a job.
The obvious solution is to lend their crypto to someone who does have the tools, expertise and time to compete. And so in this year of our lord 2018, we are seeing Wall Street converts and castoffs leave the relative safety of the New York Stock Exchange for the SHA256 plated information highways of the Cryptosphere.
What this will mean for the crypto-economy and decentralization is still to be determined. But two companies in particular, Atlas Quantum[1] and Caspian[2] are working to bring the advantages currently enjoyed by the 1% to the crypto-masses.
Both companies are institutional investors. They have experience in traditional investing. They use algorithms to see gaps in markets and work to profit off of it. That isn’t to say that the two companies are identical. Atlas Quantum is focused on Central and South America and have just recently started to make headway into Europe. Caspian is more focused on giving investors tools, while Atlas Quantum is
