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by wallacoloo 1860 days ago
It’s true that there’s some lens to view it from where this causes positive things. Bitcoin itself is a fairly direct response to novel government action following 2008.

But it’ll set back adoption so heavily. There are a lot of applications in the space that only become feasible once adoption is so high, so development of everything above the base layer is liable to slow down significantly.