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> The future will be decentralized.

So was our past. How does cryptocurrency upset the balance of power that has caused centralisation to occur?

There have been scam after scam with cryptocurrencies, and despite every player experimenting with the blockchain concept, few results.

Cryptocurrencies have a very real cultural problem they need to overcome. This is a response to that cultural problem.

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The problem is not with blockchain, the problem is that harder one tries to define how decentralization can be made into a self-sustaining reaction (rather than merely a transitional phase from one centralized regime to another), the more the concept evaporates. Blockchains are just the latest attempt to turn the base metal of conflict into the noble gold of cooperation.

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