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cmdkeen on Jan 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitcoin Is Dead, Long Live Bitcoin

Has anyone built a decentralized, egalitarian system on any foundation? Call be cynical but at some point you run into human nature, and we're not fundamentally decentralising or egalitarian.

hvfhhvv on Jan 15, 2016 [–]

Non sense. It is not necessary for the agents in a decentralised system to be selfless in order for the system to self organise.

Edit. Drunk and offensive. But my point still stands.

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