1) Philosophical. If you like authority, centralized "everything", trust politicians and bankers, don't read it. Probably will fit more to crypto and any "decentralized" like minded ppl. Some quotes, I won't post the link to source. Find by search yourself. #Bitcoin $ETH
2) The Ancient Decentralized Society
For thousands of years, humans lived in small decentralized communities of 30–90 members. This was optimal, as people have a limit of healthy social contacts that seems to be somewhere around 100–150 people. This is known as Dunbar’s number.
3) Each community had its own rules, and it was hard for malicious actors to go unnoticed or unpunished. This was perfectly fine until the invention of agriculture around 10,000 years ago.
4) People began to gather in villages, and communities became bigger. People no longer knew whether the stranger in front of them was reliable and trustworthy. So new trust systems were needed.
5) The result was people-based trust systems and central authorities.
The empowerment of people led to rulers, slaves, kings, and all the kinds of authority we recognize from the ancient and modern world.
6) Our Current Centralized Society
The systems, laws, and processes we have today were necessary because people-based trust systems don’t scale beyond Dunbar’s number of 150.
7) We are currently living in a world of centralism. Even in modern democracies, the political landscape is established via a top-down system governed by only a few people or entities.
8) Democracy was a good invention to fill the vacuum after the aristocrats disappeared: It shuffles power every few years. Democracy solved many problems of power abuse by distributing power over different (independent) authorities.
9) The problem with such a system is that it always develops a life of its own. The system becomes a Leviathan with its own interests, always seeking more resources, more power and more control. A distributedly governed republic seemed like it might be the solution.
10) But, as we see today, it wasn’t a real solution for long. The distribution model simply delayed the inevitable. The USA, born as “The Land of the Free” and following this model, because a party-driven socialist democracy in just 50 years,
11) with the economy coming under the control of the state and, later, semi-private banks. The Leviathan was reborn, eventually expanding to become the Deep State we have today. All members of such a gov system, all actors and functionaries, have become worshippers of the state.
12) People who grow up and live in such systems develop into statists — worshippers of the state — who cannot envision a world without being ruled.
13) Thus, we are living in a centralized world with many problems. Institutions, governments, media, political parties have developed lives of their own, and the Leviathan state, in combination with corporations and banks, has turned the world into a global crisis platform.
14) This is not a problem of capitalism, but a problem of centralism. The statists steal our money several times over to maintain their insane global scheme of consuming the diversity of the planet and imposing their crude interpretation of democracy and freedom on the world.
15) With the ongoing technological revolution, people are increasingly aware and sick of this. What 30 years ago only cryptoanarchists were predicting, people are now feeling on a global scale.
16) With the invention of decentralized, trustless systems like blockchain and value transfer assets like Bitcoin and the first smart contract platforms, we are shifting away from centralized society towards a decentralized one.
17) This process is inevitable. The sole question is whether this it will be very painful, with lots of resistance, or relatively painless.
Change is never painful, only resistance to change.
We should be prepared. Even those who tread the path of peace must be well-fortified.
18) This decentralized blockchain system is going to change your life, from how you conduct business or manage assets to how you use your machines, vote, rent a car and even prove who you are.
19) Along the way, it will transform banks and other financial institutions, hospitals, companies, governments… everything.
20) Decentralization offers the promise of nearly frictionless cooperation between members of complex networks that can add value to each other by enabling collaboration without central authorities and middlemen.
21) People-based trust systems don’t scale beyond Dunbar’s number.

But technology-based trust systems scale virtually without limit!
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