Ethereum and Bitcoin and nation states is fundamentally wrong. I want to get to your second point in a second, but just a quick thought on that. I think you're absolutely right that violence at its core is the thing that we gave up to governments. That's the Thomas Hobbes argument, essentially. It's like we give the Leviathan the power of violence, and therefore we are able to socially collaborate better and coordinate better as human individuals. But that doesn't have to be the case. So when we graduate above violence, there are things that societies put together like protocols, like laws, like the Constitution. So we're not cavemen running around, hitting each other and stealing our things, and we're not just war tribes, essentially. We have protocols and structures that define how we do commerce, that define what our unit of money is. And crypto's answer to that might be a little bit, well, in the crypto world, code is law. So we do have a law system and a set of protocols. That (38/97)
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