Security is always about economy - it is after all about incentives and disincentives. Bitcoin makes this explicite with the mining process and the currency. Now it seems that some financial companies like the idea of a fully decentralized ledger, system where you don&#x27;t need to trust a central authority to settle deals.  But they don&#x27;t like the currency part of it. I can understand them - I for one hate the wastefulness of the mining process - but it seems like they believe that they can build a decentralized system without the currency part that supports the economy of incentives and disincentives. Don&#x27;t they understand the link between those two parts? Or maybe they think that it is enough to build some cargo cult system - that just copies the names, but is not decentralized at all - to lure investors?<p>Update:s&#x2F;distributed&#x2F;decentralized&#x2F;