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Sure everything can fall apart, nothing is perfect. But it doesn't need to be perfect to be useful.
The blockchain is, directly and indirectly, undermining nation states so I am under no illusion that it will be easy peasy spread.
But why should that ever be a bigger problem than spending millions of dollars on all sorts of foundational research that never goes anywhere?
Opportunity cost.
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Sure everything can fall apart, nothing is perfect. But it doesn't need to be perfect to be useful.
The blockchain is, directly and indirectly, undermining nation states so I am under no illusion that it will be easy peasy spread.
But why should that ever be a bigger problem than spending millions of dollars on all sorts of foundational research that never goes anywhere?
Opportunity cost.