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by wwweston 1140 days ago
> Ethereum, which are designed to resist centralization

https://cryptoslate.com/research-ethereum-is-neither-decentr...

> permissionlessness

The existing internet is sufficiently permissionless for the vast majority of potential activities. Where it isn't, you start to reach into the boundaries past which there are often reasons for permissions to exist.

> HN wrongly thinks of crypto as a financial system... instead of a family of methods for making composable, decentralized protocols with built-in economics

A system with "built-in economics" is a financial system.