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   "text": "Without a core use case beyond Bitcoin's store of value function, decentralization technology is less likely to proliferate.",
   "abstract": "Without a core use case, other than the store of value (in Bitcoin), decentralization technology is less likely to proliferate.",
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   "text": "The killer app for the decentralized economy is the DAO, a company governed autonomously by smart contracts and organized without any single permanent governing authority or concentrated ownership, whose existence would justify the other decentralized overhead tools.",
   "abstract": "We are still waiting for a single application, a killer app for WebZ. What will be the killer app for the decentralized economy? The answer is a DAO.",
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