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Agreed.

The knowledge gap between "normies" and "crypto-aficionados" is pretty large.

Which is, of course, why so many crypto "businesses" turn out to be scams of one sort or another -- the asymmetry of information makes most folks easy meat for scammers.

To point up this asymmetry, go ahead and watch this[0]. The lack of knowledge WRT crypto-currencies (let alone smart contracts) among the hoi polloi is striking in comparison to those who are in the know.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/crypto-decoded/ (Recent NOVA episode).



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