>A centrally managed ledger without distributed calculations would be way faster.

Right which will never occur in the current system because each middleman needs to justify their place to keep their piece of the pie.

Like I said it’s a system with tons of middlemen (who don’t add value) who could be ripped out and replaced with Blockchain.

Dole was “ultimately resolved” only after complex class action litigation that costs millions of dollars and resulted in the party who took dole private having to pay an extra ~$2.50 x ~36.8M shares. It’s clear from any public company that goes private this is a serious issue...Dole is not an edge case.