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Re:SEC Is Studying Spotify's Plan to Bypass IPO in NYSE Listing by mankash666 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @05:05PM (#15076383)
Escrow is a valuable instrument, but there fees charged for it today is unwarranted.

In the future, escrows will be handled by smart contacts for a lot cheaper, not people.

As for property manager, with the surfeit of online tools for everything from listing, screening tenants to rent payment, their value is significantly diminished

Re:SEC Is Studying Spotify's Plan to Bypass IPO in NYSE Listing by JoshTriplett on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @05:16PM (#15076469)
> Escrow is a valuable instrument, but there fees charged for it today is unwarranted.

Agreed.

> In the future, escrows will be handled by smart contacts for a lot cheaper, not people.

Seems exceptionally unlikely. That doesn't work unless all the infrastructure they interface with all uses the same underlying resolution system; otherwise, someone has to provide a bridge, and that makes the "smart" contract effectively toothless. Half the job of escrow is to deal with a giant pile of legacy systems.

> As for property manager, with the surfeit of online tools for everything from listing, screening tenants to rent payment, their value is significantly diminished

"property manager as a service" seems like a fine concept, but there will still be many people who do not want to do that work themselves. By all means, be a "virtual" organization, but someone still needs to have a rolodex of repair services to call when someone needs their air conditioning fixed in the middle of the summer.