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   "text": "Alternative funds gave retail investors access to hedge fund strategies and higher returns than traditional mutual funds while charging mutual fund fees, and that combination is what increased retail demand.",
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   "text": "The obstacles preventing consumers and entrepreneurs from accessing a workable new technology are frequently not technological limits but human choices embodied in law: legal and regulatory rules prohibit or limit commercial exploitation of, and public access to, new technology.",
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   "text": "A bank account is a necessary condition for participation in the existing centralized micro task marketplace: without one, a worker can neither contribute nor profit.",
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   "text": "Because platform access requires only an internet connection rather than a bank account, the decentralized design expands the micro task labor pool by up to 40 percent, including the unbanked.",
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   "text": "Without the ability to rely on proven custody providers, mainstream and legacy institutional investors are restrained from making digital asset investments for legal or business reasons.",
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   "text": "Approximately thirty eight percent of the labor pool is unbanked but skilled and therefore excluded from centralized micro task marketplaces, because without a bank account these workers cannot contribute to or profit from the existing marketplace.",
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