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On the modern slavery front have a read of the transcript of the podcast from our modern slavery expert discussing how all this fits together.

Serious policy people who are worthy of respect are doing this thing. Molly can snark all the likes but all that she’s demonstrated is arrogance, poor judgement, an unwillingness to admit when she is out of her depth on real world issues like modern slavery, and a willingness to use lynch mobs to defend her point of view rather than to discuss the actual topic. The world is filled with people who point and laugh for a hobby, but once it becomes a living all intellectual honesty goes straight out the window.

If you want to understand what we really do, read on.

https://podcast.mattereum.com/episodes/ending-slavery-with-t...

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No, I will not.

“You just have to do more research to understand” is the crypto founder’s refuge from all criticism.

You have not demonstrated that your claim is worthy of investigation.

While I am not the most intelligent person you have met, I am a very smart person. Someone who claims that the CAP theorem proves the inevitability of blockchains has understood neither, or is perhaps deliberately using words to bamboozle mildly technical people. But perhaps you are ahead of your time and merely look like a scammer. Nevertheless, if you are unable to explain the idea to others who are not as smart as you, at minimum you are incompetent as a visionary or founder. Educating is your job, not mine.

On the CAP theorem specifically, I refer you to:

https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/why-global-tra...

I think you will find that if you think carefully the blockchain presents an opinionated solution to building useful globally distributed databases.

This breaks it down more explicitly. https://ancapalex.medium.com/a-cursory-introduction-to-byzan...

You actually have to think about this to understand it. From first principles.

...but we already have useful, globally distributed databases that are vastly more efficient than blockchains, and have for a decade or so: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

Bitcoin is 14 years old at this point. We are _not_ early. Surely if blockchains are as great as their proponents claim, at least one clever company would have done something unquestionably impressive with them? But maybe I'm the crazy one here.

(For context the time between the launch of Sputnik and the first commercial communications satellite, Intelsat I, was 8 years)

If you don’t want to understand there’s no point trying to justify it.

Move on.

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