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   "text": "Instead of building compatible technologies in the service of interoperability, most crypto projects compete with each other, contradicting the open source culture the space needs if it has any hope of thriving.",
   "abstract": "Instead of building compatible tech- nologies in the service of interoperability, most are competing with each other, con- tradicting the open source culture that should pervade the space if it has any hope of thriving.",
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   "text": "The libertarian and reformist orientation of the crypto community itself neutralizes decentralization, because the strong idea of reforming society with decentralized technology makes cooperation with existing centralized structures often suboptimal.",
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   "text": "Decentralized issuers treated central bank issued digital currencies as a threat rather than as a pathway to mainstream acceptance of more decentralized cryptocurrencies, and that misreading forfeited a route to broader adoption.",
   "abstract": "Rather than seeing the central bank issued digital currencies as a pathway to mainstream acceptance of more decentralized cryptocurrencies, the decentralized issuers of digital assets and their community perceived their centralized counterparts as a threat.",
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