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Well, yeah. The consequentialist viewpoint is if IPFS fails to succeed because it jumped too early, then ZERO people benefit from it. That's arguably the greater sin.

There's a saying, cutting off the nose to spite the face. That could apply here.




The greater sin is not failing, as failing is expected on the road to success. The greater sin would be to not jump when the opportunity presents itself.

Maybe look at it from a different point of view, if to someone in Turkey trying to access wikipedia it makes a difference then it's already a success.

It's a question of where you want to dray the line, and maybe the consequentialist drawing the line when ipfs takes over the world and gets 3 billions daily users is far fetched.




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