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Re:Govt warns kenyans about Worldcoin by cyrillite on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:46PM (#37068152)
Directly? Not a lot.

Indirectly, it kickstarted global CBDCs research, blockchain-integration research across major financial institutions, tokenisation efforts, etc.

Would all these things have happened anyway? Yeah, maybe. I don’t know if blockchains in the form we got them were necessary, but they surely are this possible world’s ignition.

Will this all be beneficial in the long run? TBD. But, the story isn’t over yet.

Crypto was possibly a net fuck up though

Re:Govt warns kenyans about Worldcoin by notatoad on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:58PM (#37068307)
>Indirectly, it kickstarted global CBDCs research, blockchain-integration research across major financial institutions, tokenisation efforts, etc.

none of those things are things. research into more crypto is not a benefit of crypto. it's just crypto.

Re:Govt warns kenyans about Worldcoin by ozr on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:48PM (#37068175)
> Indirectly, it kickstarted global CBDCs research, blockchain-integration research across major financial institutions, tokenisation efforts, etc.

These are also all negatives. Profound wastes of time.

Re:Govt warns kenyans about Worldcoin by takeda on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @05:15PM (#37068518)
Had that research being something valuable, you would have a point, but as of now crypto just led to more crypto. That's not a benefit.