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"fiat crypto", or if you prefer, digital currency, will neither be proof-of-work nor proof-of-stake. Neither mechanism is needed when there is a single trusted authority.



A "single authority", not a "single trusted authority".


"trusted" doesn't mean you want to, but that you have to.


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Relative to random individuals it seems like a democratic form of government at least, has several advantages

Did society fall apart when current fiat currency with the government as the central trusted authority was adopted?




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