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   "text": "Where a DAO's internal voting mechanism is centralized and burdened with legacy voting problems, any higher degree of decentralization achieved in its external legal design will typically be cancelled out over the long run.",
   "abstract": "For many attempts to create legal solutions, if the internal voting mechanism of a DAO is more centralized and afflicted with existing legacy voting issues, a higher degree of decentralization in the external legal design will typically be cancelled out in the long run.",
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   "text": "When the degrees of internal and external governance decentralization cancel each other out, the DAO is less likely to succeed in its decentralization attempt and correspondingly more likely to fail.",
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