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by soconfused1 3711 days ago
Consensys is constantly implementing lots of useless solutions for attention grabbing subjects to try to drive the price up on the cryptocurrency they hold a lot of. Almost all of their ideas do not actually work in the real world.
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I'd guess they've found a great match: never have I seen a community so prone to irrational hypes around random new technologies as the international development and humanitarian aid communities.

The whole blockchain narrative will be a feast for them, probably with the end result that some overworked local medical workers will now have to deal with semi-broken blockchain apps to buy fresh toilet paper.

Many lives will be improved (in Brooklyn, NY).