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One of the features of Ethereum that initially made me think this would be the future was/is the idea of The World Computer - a series of machines that allow for distributed and decentralized execution of any arbitrary code (instructions) in the some future time in a guaranteed way (albeit on the EVM), guaranteed to happen, but not a hard guarantee on the exact time. Also another feature I found appealing was the trust-less preservation of history: how these nodes would be difficult to take down if everyone had a copy of the immutable history of these txs, executions and data and that that even one of these full nodes could propagate to preserve the history - making it really difficult to take down.
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People like to say capitalism has solved a lot of problems (it has!) but it also doesn’t know when to stop. When a problem is solved why squeeze it until it’s dead?
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That’s a halting problem on societal level
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