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by ceejayoz 397 days ago
> The whole financial world would be better written using blockchain/smart contracts, same goes for voting/governance, etc.

These are all scams, too. No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO serves as a nice concrete example. "Code is law" fell apart as soon as the code resulted in a large enough bad outcome for enough people.