[extropy-chat] Re: Why bet only imaginary money?

[Harvey Newstrom]

On Sep 4, 2004, at 7:10 AM, Alejandro Dubrovsky wrote:

> but all bets are not about nanotech.
>
>> Or am I missing something?
>>
> you are probably missing the fact that a public idea futures playing
> with real money would be considered gambling without a license in lots
> of places.  but i thought you were the lawyer, so you can tell me.  I
> always thought that was the main obstacle.

Why do people want a futures market anyway?  Aren't all the big 
technology players already in the the existing markets, so that anybody 
can invest in the technologies they want already?

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Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, CISA, CISM, IAM, IBMCP, GSEC
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