``` Trust in code, not companies: the belief that a community’s smart contracts encode and enforce its rules We should all trust unknown developers why, exactly? ```

Don't trust, verify is one of our battle cries.

``` Users control the apps and networks they use Forrester can't see that happening beyond a few tech-savvy types ```

Internet 1998, Forrester can't see that happening beyond a few tech-savvy types

``` Decentralized autonomous organizations, entities that exist as a collection of smart contracts Have no legal basis and work on a utopian assumption that all possibilities can be coded; ``` Countries run by the will of common people is utopian ideal. Everyone knows you need monarchy

``` Decentralized finance (DeFi) Nice idea, shame it lacks consumer protection ```

No one is forcing anyone to use it. We want wild west, we know the risks, thats how we like it. Leave us alone !

I feel dumber having read that article