[__MatrixMan__]

> Decentralisation never lasts

Mycorrhizal networks, to pick just one of myriad counterexamples, would like a word. Decentralization is just something that humans are (so far) bad at designing for.

> paying with crypto is always going to be more painful [than fiat] unless you use an exchange

Always is a long time. As governments figure out how to add features to fiat via CBDC's I can definitely image some bloat that would make paying in fiat needlessly complex. It's not like cryptocurrency has the market cornered on bad decisions.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

We're talking about complex social structures here, not fungi. The fact that you bring up fungi is just absurd. It proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have no understanding of what I was getting at.

[__MatrixMan__]

Well then perhaps you should be more specific, because there are obvious counterexamples to the generalizations you're throwing around.

USDC is a bridge across which supply and demand signals flow between centralized and decentralized networks.

Mycorrhizal networks are a similar bridge. Both are complex social structures, but only one is falling apart.

If we're going to get this right, it's not going to be by writing off cases where this kind of problem has been elegantly solved, especially in the absence of alternatives to try.