Every market has its protocols.  Indeed, you could define "market" as a set of exchange protocols.  Wikipedia cannot handle controversy.  The emblem at the top of the article ("this article needs the attention of an expert"), while seeming to condemn, in a badge of honor.  Wikipedia's "regulatory capture" by a technologically advanced minority is a good example of dependency theory.  The lynchpin of economic theory is the idea that people do better when they encounter each other as equals.  Some institutions allow that, some discourage it.64.223.225.221