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I suspect it's a political bias. It could be that you see that the blockchain frees people from traditional controls that you have long internalized as valuable.

As such, the permissionless-ness of it, where anyone can send value to any one or thing, for any purpose, evokes disgust.

It's basically libertarianism, institutionalized as a technological platform and network, and if it succeeds, it means the ideological camp you identify with will have suffered a crushing and lasting defeat.



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