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   "text": "Earlier centralized companies defeated more decentralized peer to peer platforms because of the technology of the time and the incentive design built into capitalist civilization: consumer devices could not match industrial upload speeds, centralized firms had the incentive to polish user interfaces, and economies of scale made central bureaucracy worth negotiating.",
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   "text": "Cold storage trades security for accessibility: retrieving digital assets from cold storage can take many hours or even days, which makes cold storage especially ill suited to dynamic trading strategies.",
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   "text": "Latency, throughput limits, and the absence of fully automated continuous training and validation together defeat the timeliness advantage that real-time data is supposed to deliver.",
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   "text": "IoT based oversight does not account for the pace at which AI agents will outgrow static IoT to blockchain linkages, and it leaves unexplained how the convergence handles latency or secures data as agent ubiquity drives exponential transaction complexity.",
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