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Re:A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard by lottin on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:24PM (#28080812)
These are people who think the government wants to censor their prices database... so not exactly geniuses.
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Re:A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard by nuclearnice1 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @07:48PM (#28081543)
Take a look at Argentina 2007-2016 [1,2,3]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Billion_Prices_project

[2] https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54491

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Fernández_de_Kirchn...

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Re:A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard by lottin on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:48PM (#28082760)
What happened in Argentina 2007-2016 that would suggest censorship-resistance in a prices database is a feature that makes sense?
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Re:A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard by nuclearnice1 on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:20PM (#28093442)
The government misreported inflation figures. (According to the people who made the price database)
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