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Yeah, except a good portion of the errors made in those 200k years at least had the excuse of being new.

Blockchain stands apart as repeating every single problem the financial system solved over the last 300 years

Forgetting then repeating the mistakes of the past is yet another long standing hallmark of human beings. In every age, in every place, the deeds of people remain the same.

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parent stcredzero 7 years ago

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