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Comment by igsomething

5 hours ago

Then people from a sanctioned countries are blocked from open source, or worse, you have to explain to the bank and/or the government why you sent 20USD to someone in Venezuela.

And here we have another specimen of "things which crypto are actually useful" spotted in the wild!

  • I think the intersection of the set of people able and interested in contributing and those who are willing to figure out cryptocurrencies is the empty set.

    • I quick visit to https://gitcoin.co/campaigns will show you that you are wrong. Hundreds of projects funded by even more people.

      Mind you: that's on one of the most convulated ways there is to get involved, because it involves a bunch of smart contract operations and on-chain voting. If we are talking about crypto only as a payment network, things are even simpler.

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