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> If the Bitcoin (for example) community really buys into the idea that we need to bail out some set of organizations, it's possible to execute a fork to do that. And the number of validating bitcoin clients out there is pretty large, so it would require a lot of buy-in.

With crypto, you are essentially switching the authority figure from an elected government to a bunch of faceless miners forming an oligarchy.



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