intermediation

The classic intermediation solution is a market maker who defaults to funding any start-up that meets pre-posted requirements.

It's just highly inefficient that intermediation has to occur via the swapbox, which isn't accessible to electronic market makers.

That doesn't mean intermediation in real-time markets isn't valuable.

That is around where current banks charge, probably higher, but banks take credit losses in that, but this is pure intermediation.

Hawala sounds a lot like Bitcoin (with maybe an extra layer of intermediation tossed in).

Do you think it comes across as sincere intermediation or as some kind of forced thing both parties will rebel against?

Such intermediation comes with power, which does need to be tempered with some regulation.

It is a social relationship subject to intermediation by the government under democratic oversight.

Arguably, fixing the supply chain to make it more efficient may involve a series of dis-intermediation steps, of which this could be the first.

There are a lot of historical precedents for technology enabling intermediation!

If this is truly the case, then the argument for financial intermediation to be founded on a similar technological basis is an exceptionally strong one.

I don't disagree with the literal point that you are making, however, there is no need for this kind of intermediation.

French bank today issued press release saying that intermediation of Bitcoin transactions requires "payment processor" license.

Unlike hypervisor virtualization, where virtual machines run on physical hardware via an intermediation layer ("the hypervisor"), containers instead run user space on top of an operating system's kernel.

Do my dollars, etc actually go directly to specific individuals, or is there a layer of intermediation a la Kiva (over which there was some confusion and "controversy" [1]) 3.