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Exactly. The hard problem is to build and maintain the democratic institutions required by a developed country. I find some people seem to be willing to gamble that for a tech solution.



I think crypto has some use as distributed logs. But that's it.

You can't solve a social problem with a computer/tech solution. It just doesn't work.




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