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> But at the very least it's often interesting to see how traditional systems are reimagined in order to enable decentralized, trustless, computer programs

They are not re-imagined. It's a combination of a still on-ongoing gold rush (well, the end tail of it) and people pretending there are purely technical solutions to all problems.

Almost every single of those "interesting re-imagining" projects rather quickly rediscovers why traditional systems are the way they are, and end up being shittier versions of those.




> well, the end tail of it

Whatever your feelings on the impact of the technology are, you can't possibly know this

> Almost every single of those "interesting re-imagining" projects rather quickly rediscovers why traditional systems are the way they are, and end up being shittier versions of those.

I pretty much agree with this, though I'd suggest "most" rather than "almost every".

Most scientific studies may fail to support their hypothesis also, that doesn't make them uninteresting.


> I pretty much agree with this, though I'd suggest "most" rather than "almost every".

The absolute vast majority (outside of scams, obviously).

> Most scientific studies may fail to support their hypothesis also, that doesn't make them uninteresting.

Scientific studies don't pretend to be re-imagining anything.




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