There is a great deal of ruin in a decentralized blockchain

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I like crypto nerd snipes, please forgive me in advance.

Ever so often, perceived setbacks are proclaimed to put a decentralized blockchain in ruin. But by fostering decentralization and substrating the digital life of its "citizens", it becomes a nation of its own, thus imitating the properties captured in Smith's original quote "there is a great deal of ruin in a nation".

this sounds insightful, what do you mean by ruin?