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▲ ceejayoz 4 hours ago

> The community founded on circumventing existing financial structures are anti-authority?

But that's the thing; they aren't. They just want to be the authority.

▲cowlevel 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ethereum in particular has some history with that. A long time ago they espoused this principle called "code is law", and then one time the code for something called "The DAO" did something they didn't like, so they overrode the code. To this day the Ethereum consensus rules specify that a certain hardcoded transaction ID should not do what it literally says it does.

▲TZubiri 9 minutes ago | parent [-]

The transition from PoW to PoS is another example, espoused the open ideals of Bitcoin mining, right up until the moment they had gathered sufficient power and members, at which time they closed the gates of ascension behind them.

▲skeeter2020 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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