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Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by max76 on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:53AM (#20181702)
> almost no one outside of IT understands decentralization and why someone would want it

I've talked to economist and political scientist that understood the implications of trading without central banks very well.

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Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by askmike on Friday June 14, 2019 @06:17AM (#20181797)
Good point. I was wrong in generalizing it into "IT people". Nevertheless the amount of people who get the pros of decentralization is too small.
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