that’s where they started. the permissionless financial system is where this starts..

How long did it take Amazon to move past its initial goals and start to deliver on a broader set of principles?

How long has Crypto remained a bottomless pit of fraud and greed?

to maintain a standard of discussion here because it feels like hn bias just hit: there are more applications of a distributed database at 400ms latency than fraud. falling into ad hominem attacks feels immature.

"Distributed database" is not equivalent to "blockchain".

no but the reverse is.