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How crypto is being devoured by TradFi, killing Satoshi’s dream by rewarding centralization

Bitcoin’s price, and thus the entire crypto market, is increasingly being anchored by flows through regulated wrappers. Crypto is increasingly being subsumed by TradFi rather than offering an alternative to…

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Vitalik Buterin Warns Protocol Complexity Threatens Ethereum’s Decentralization Goals

TLDR: Complex protocols fail trustlessness by requiring specialized experts to verify properties. Backwards compatibility pressures cause protocol bloat as additions outpace feature removals. Buterin proposes garbage collection to minimize code…

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