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> "Paper" people need to understand one thing: the real world does not give a shit what your paper stack says. For your paper-based project to have any effect on the real world, you need some physical, trusted party to reconcile the state of the paper with the state of the real world...

This but unironically.

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Right. It's not the paper or stone tablets that ever made any changes. It was the people willing to do it in the real world. So the point is that blockchains don't open up any new possibilities that weren't there before. People always could've done whatever they were willing to do. Blockchains may have some benefits, but it's not as if people starting independent states was impossible before them.

The sooner we reach a steady state of pro-crypto and anti-crypto people the sooner we can move on with our lives.

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