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   "text": "Manual per transaction fee calculation and settlement is prone to human error, and these errors are removed through the use of blockchain technology.",
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   "text": "Human shortcomings in micro task work such as limited attention span, irrationality, and inaccuracy create a need for verification, but manual verification fails as a remedy because the verifiers are subject to the same human limitations.",
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   "text": "Blockchain removes the class of costs generated by human error in record keeping, because it eliminates the possibility that transactions are misreported in ways that cause irreparable harm.",
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