Looking at both Bitcoin and Ethereum, feel like decentralized tech is still too young to find its way around fairly basic governance issues.
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Like Occupy back in the day, you have a lot of people running around trying to change the world, but running on v. different ideologies
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When there is a collision in terms of real world goals or ideologies, the only proven solution is to fork.
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It's fractious, sectarian code, but built on a framework so powerful we can barely even begin to comprehend it.
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With so much raw power, and so little real power to govern it, I'm not sure what's to stop ideological or governmental capture of the tech.
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So unless we figure that out, look forward to a future where a government knows every financial transaction made in your name since your date of birth.
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