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I like this. It's quaint in how they mix and match different dystopias without basis in reality except for what their cryptobros came up with (they can't even tell if 561 is prime or not)

"Smart contracts" okay, the cryptobros can't even make smart contracts for bored monkey pictures without shooting themselves in the foot 10 times, why do you think a government will suddenly need one of those to do anything?

Why do you think the government needs an immutable ledger powered by inneficient computations to keep track of transactions when current DBs work just fine? The cryptobros can't even make lightning scale to the size of a small ecommerce site and want us to believe that somehow that's the future?

But to be fair crypto has its uses: speculation and separating fools from their money



> Why do you think the government needs an immutable ledger powered by inneficient computations to keep track of transactions when current DBs work just fine?

They mentioned CBDCs, not blockchain.




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