please forgive my general naivete of cryptocurrency from a technical standpoint... my interests in it lean more towards the economics of it all.
so today Counterparty showed up on
coinmarketcap.com, which immediately triggered memories of a time when I invested in a stock option and had its' value double over the space of two months... (conveniently forgetting the time I bought an option that expired worthless, costing a greater fortune -_-;)
is a protocol like counterparty the future of such trading? is ethereum made to do this, or is it unrelated? are there other things in the works (like, idk, a tech startup coming out with a proprietary platform?) your two cents, please. apologies if I'm being too vague. thank you!