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   "text": "Supervisory tasks traditionally performed by principals to control their agents can be delegated to decentralized computer networks that are reliable, secure, immutable, and independent of fallible human input and discretionary human goodwill.",
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   "text": "Cloud computing is the enabling substrate for decentralized solutions rather than their competitor, because it has already established that applications can talk to each other, an integration that decentralized networks will extend.",
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   "text": "Future peer-to-peer networks will thrive on dissimilarity rather than redundancy: nodes contributing dissimilar resources and capabilities let the network perform tasks no individual peer could perform, and making those capabilities available to all nodes attracts further nodes.",
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   "text": "Trust and security in digital financial systems and decentralized networks cannot survive the arrival of quantum computing without quantum resistant cryptographic protocols, making the shift to quantum safe cryptography a precondition for the quantum economy rather than an optional upgrade.",
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