Hal Finney suggested that banks would create money on top of bitcoin. This is essentially what Saylor is doing.
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No argument about what he is doing. I’m not sold on the merits of interest/usury. Compensated for risk seems immoral somehow. Parasitic. I don’t think the genie can be put back in the bottle though.
Additionally, what is the Saylor end-game? Continuous rent seeking with finite digital hoarding at the base? Kinda gay.
I think we'll always need loans, and loans will always have a value. I don't consider interest automatically usury.
My other point is that Hal worried about scalability (and I believe Hal was Satoshi), so I generally don't say that Satoshi would be against this stuff, but that's just me.
what's rent seeking about it? He is creating products the market wants (and in many cases actually needs).