In the past 7 or 8 years I have worked for dozens of banks (including iranians before USA asked us to not help them because Irak had Oil or something didn't follow the whole story), either as a SWIFT expert, or as an IT security software engineer (to help them with their clouds).
They are all the same. A herd.
This is what they are interested in:
- Things that work and helps them make money
- Things that WORK. That have worked for a long while and are reliable. To this day, banks systems are still based on COBOL (language). And they are soooo slow to change. Some retired developpers get pulled out of retirement and offered fortunes to maintain these old systems (easy money for anyone without a job willing to learn this ...)
- They do not care much about innovations (they think they do) and will ignore anything. Until one of them use it. They could pretend they are interested in something (the cloud, the blockchain) but they don't give a crap and have not dedicated a single person to it. But once a bank started getting on "the cloud" that was this super cool new thing, they all followed like lemmings. It had some uses, I guess? Mostly marketting reasons. They now deliver virtual machines faster. Mostly induced demand if you ask me.
- You always hear stories about the bank that lost 500 million in 3 minutes because they lost internet or some service stopped running or something similar.
They are so not going to give money to your favorite shitcoin.
And hedge funds are just retail investors moneys being managed by financiers.
There is no money that will "flow in" from the "financial world", there are no leprechauns getting ready to throw their pots of gold at you. Money does not grow on trees. It grows in the pockest of bagHODLers.
Only way prices go up:
- Ponzi insiders ("early adopters") pump the price until bagHODLers get excited.
- Companies find an interest
- Banks find an interest
For Banks to be interested, what would a crypto need to do?
Be fast, be traceable, be reliable. Be cheaper than anything else.
Make them money. Reduce systemic risk/not have more.
That's all I can think of right now but there is more.
One way it would make them (banks or cies) money is with the marketting/hype.
For examples bagHODLers could more easilly spend their money with "virtual money" like gift cards, psychologically they feel less like they are spending money they worked for.
If SV would provide everything banks want they would run their own nodes.
Remember, it does not just need to be better. it needs to be MUCH better.
Radar activated on every innovation & what services are supported.
But anyway people are still all eager to invest in that crap... makes no sense.
People are so excited lmao.
I might allocate 1% of my investment capital to worthless magical money for the lolz. It's not really an investment.
I will make an idea how I would consider splitting my moneyz.