It's called the ChainLink paradox in academic circles and it consists of three points:
1. To avoid SEC scrutiny, a token must have a concrete use. Otherwise it is a security and cannot be sold on U.S. markets.
2. For LINK to be useful, it must first be valuable.
3. The only people who can make something valuable are U.S. citizens (the rest of the world are just inconsequential weirdos and insecure creeps).
If Sergey was to list LINK on Coinbase and Gemini, the SEC would brand LINK as a security and the network would fail (1). If Sergey was to launch the mainnet without U.S. markets, the network would fail (2 & 3).
To solve this riddle you have to remember that while U.S. citizens are the only PEOPLE to make something valuable, there are other methods.... such as wash trading on zero-fee servers which is a method that has been proven over countless of pump and dumps. The difference in this case is that the wash trading will take on the role of a booster rocket.
LINK has (artificial) value -> Mainnet launches -> LINK is officially a utility token -> LINK is sold on U.S. exchanges -> the network is launched
Remember this thread when you start to see the 50million incentive wallets moving next week.
I will leave the path from $1000 to $2500 as an exercise for the reader.
