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#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence

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The Main Bottleneck to Cryptocurrency?

The main bottleneck is politics. It's government- It depends on armed thugs that will shoot you if you bypass their currency restriction. I mean, for making a distributed money, you could do that on Algorand right now. So I think there were technical bottlenecks to that two years ago. And maybe Ethereum 2.0 will be as fast as Algorand. But it'll just be on the blockchain in a way that enforces centralized control and government hegemony rather than otherwise. Like the ERMP will probably be the first global, the first currency on theblockchain,. The E-Rubel maybe next.

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