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by xya3453 3055 days ago
The enormous value that the technology provides is anonymous, distributed consensus. It enables digital asset ownership. It enables self-organising permissionless networks. It enables humans to organise and transact without any central authority for the first time. That's the real value.
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> It enables humans to organise and transact without any central authority for the first time.

Didn't that already happen before we even had central authorities?