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TLS96: Dhruv Bansal on The Bitcoin Stack, Distributed Markets, Scaling in Layers, Nostr, Tor, and More

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Are We Making Progress?

In the last 500 years it seems like we've had a lot of progress and you know maybe now we're saying to ourselves we've gone too far in the direction of centralization. I think change always comes with um ugly pieces and I don't think it's unidirectional, he says. He thinks bitcoin for example is fantastically more concentrated than dollars are very unequally distributed but as bitcoin grows in value will it retain that greater degree of inequality? We have to go through a period where there are like bitcoin robber barons and we're in some new gilded ageI can't predict like that or at least not everything is just going to be better bitcoin fixes everything according to

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