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72 Why Would People Trust Crypto? with Finn Brunton and Molly White (Trust episode 2)

Reimagining the Internet

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The Crisis of Trust in Cryptocurrencies

Vitalik Buterin, the guy who developed Ethereum is still really in charge of that project. He wrote a blog post about how cryptocurrency uses a lot of energy and rewards selfishness. The thing about our world is that it is fundamentally an unstable, chaotic place where you just can't trust that any of the institutions that you're invested in will end up working," he says. "I think recognizing that as a choice that we can actually make now"

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