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   "text": "It is unclear whether the cryptocurrency market on its own can over time produce the level of stability and absence of volatility that cryptocurrencies need to become truly mainstream.",
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   "text": "Decentralized issuers treated central bank issued digital currencies as a threat rather than as a pathway to mainstream acceptance of more decentralized cryptocurrencies, and that misreading forfeited a route to broader adoption.",
   "abstract": "Rather than seeing the central bank issued digital currencies as a pathway to mainstream acceptance of more decentralized cryptocurrencies, the decentralized issuers of digital assets and their community perceived their centralized counterparts as a threat.",
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   "text": "Usability is the most important decentralized infrastructure requirement: without intuitive graphic user interfaces, decentralized systems may not reach mainstream consumer adoption, because requiring users to manage public and private keys and their own security makes sufficient public education very difficult.",
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