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> the conversation is supposed to be about cryptocurrency technology,

> but you're talking about the gross financial companies that operate in cryptocurrency as if they ARE cryptocurrency.

That's because the middlemen are inevitable and they work the way they do for a reason—governments won't let them work any other way.

Cryptocurrency is a technological solution for a human problem, and you can't analyze the impact of the technology divorced from the human reality without losing so much resolution as to make your analysis meaningless.



...sure I can.

Because I've done the reading.

Which is ironically what's keeping us from adopting proper food, air, healthcare, and financial systems. Everyone doing the reading.


This is the Hermione Granger approach to broomstick flying, and it doesn't work.


Did you just hand-wave me from fiction? lol

Anyway, I think I meant "unironically", in retrospect.




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