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   "text": "With an unbundled product more Member States might participate in regulatory competition over corporate law, which would speed up the learning process and likely result in better substantive corporate law.",
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   "text": "The authors qualify their own case: stable cryptocurrencies can experiment with monetary policy on an unprecedented scale only because they are insulated from real world complexities and political positioning, and that advantage shrinks once real world market factors actually apply to them.",
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   "text": "Private blockchains are the rational transitional vehicle for cautious enterprises, because they let firms experiment at relatively low cost and be better positioned when mass adoption occurs, while allowing the corporation to screen access to transaction records.",
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   "text": "Biomimicry as a route to decentralized design optimization is disadvantaged ab initio, because nature's decentralized design is the product of millions of years of experimentation while human science is flawed until proven otherwise.",
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   "text": "Because HSPoS supplements rather than replaces the consensus layer, an existing PoS consensus algorithm can be kept in operation while reputation is introduced through the reward function, permitting a gradual rather than abrupt transition to SPoS.",
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   "text": "The Shasper canary network is designed as an experimental environment for developer teams that want to move fast and innovate, or to prepare deployments destined for the Casper Network.",
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   "text": "Because of significant path dependencies in the capital formation and capital allocation processes of existing venture capital models, the ideal typical reputation based capital allocation model is less likely to be created in the short term.",
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   "text": "The industry is still experimenting with different forms of DeFi capital replacement schemes, and it will take time to filter out those designs that have unanticipated side effects.",
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   "text": "Lower cost early feedback from the CRDAO enables risk taking by development teams that wish to move quickly through governance and upgrade processes, which in turn enables accelerated growth and scaling of experimentation.",
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