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"15 minutes" to settle cash for next trade is enough "instant" for most traders I think. The part that irritates people is the "2 business days" problem in the regular account.

I have heard it is complicated, but can someone elaborate the "computing cost" of a regular (non-coin) digital transfer?

Btw, transfers within 15 minutes are being done all over the world without the fancy blockchain and coin. I do understand the need for some transfers to be delayed , say liquidating all of one's investment to take a few days just for security reasons.



>can someone elaborate

Well there's - for starters - :

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/counterpartyrisk.asp


All of that risk is associated with holding the goods and currency for this delayed period! It all makes sense, but, if ACH was 10 minutes instead of two days, the entire issue would barely matter.




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