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by bitconion 2254 days ago
problem #1 - protect freedom, liberties

problem #2 - adaptation to the needs of the complex system like modern society

those are kind of ‘significant’ problems, technologies like Internet, blockchain etc, provide sequential approximations to the solution of those problems.

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Only hypotheticals and that after 11 years. And so tied to an almost paranoid distrust of government.
Blockchain creates privacy issues though. You now have metadata on who has traded with who and if “they” get an exchange to reveal its clients you can then really see the whole picture. So it’s about as private as a regular bank account, maybe less so.