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by bitCromwell 2949 days ago
"As long as we live in a world where fiat currency and nation states dominate transactional and regulatory environments"

Do you think that world will ever end? What will that look like? Will the very, very early stages look something like this?

Cryptocurrencies were not developed as a get rich scheme, nor as a tool for energy efficiency, corporate profits nor so many of the rubrics we use to judge them today.

The idealists that authored the crypto world imagined replacing the fiats of current rulers. Considering how rare a thing that is in history their early, chaotic form of decentralization isn't doing so badly judged on its own merits.