The blockchain is the most important development in history since the invention of writing, because it is a cryptographically verifiable, highly replicated, unfalsifiable, complete digital record.

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  Cryptocurrency deserves to be dismissed: its problems outweigh its promise, and the trustless world it offers is not one worth wanting.

  Srinivasan calls the blockchain the most important development since the invention of writing. Hansson says cryptocurrency deserves to be dismissed, that its problems outweigh its promise, and that the trustless world it offers is not one worth wanting. There is no reading on which both of these are calibrated.

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• Modern cryptographic networks are called "blockchains" largely for historical reasons. VBVitalik Buterin27 Sept 2026
• The most important reason to decentralize the web is software and developer diversity, more than privacy, security or data ownership. KVKenton Varda17 Aug 2016
• What a shared digital economy needs is interoperability, not cryptocurrency: a database or a standards body does the job, exactly as railway standardisation did. TSTim Sweeney30 Apr 2025

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