Yes yes, reading is old school and for losers (according to the Internet), but these are the words of cryptocurrency’s based god! Jokes aside, read the first sentence of that abstract. The developers of cryptocurrency are smart but has their creation increased/decreased centralization into entrenched financial institutions? Think about it, stably. In my country institutional power has increased, imo.

Enriching influencers, pundits, companies, and politicians online is counterproductive — instead prioritize your local community. Online authenticity is a facade.

I’m not even that old yet, and think I’ve seen people owned by every scam in the book, it’s brutal. “The” Yellow Kid would be proud of this money/fame/status “scarcity games” obsessed generation.

Text (book or screen) has an allure that allows otherwise intelligent people to throw away their deductive and dialectical skills. Faulty information online drives decision making for many influencers/politicians. And so the question remains; who influences the influencers?

FTX, a cryptocurrency company headquartered in my country (The Bahamas) has fallen. This was the obvious outcome… but convincing people beforehand was an impossibility. Authority and influence always beat reason and sanity.