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   "text": "The more decentralized products are, meaning more censorship resistant, autonomous, and beyond regulatory control, the more they are left in a regulatory vacuum, and the resulting legal uncertainty limits their expansion, reach, and evolution.",
   "abstract": "As a result, the more decen- tralized products that are more censorship resistant, autonomous, and cannot be con- trolled by regulatory agencies, are largely left in a regulatory vacuum. The associated legal uncertainty limits their expansion, reach, and evolution.",
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   "text": "The regulation of government coins versus corporate coins versus people coins bifurcated the regulatory infrastructure for decentralized technologies, because government and corporate coins were able to develop and evolve with regulatory oversight while more decentralized issuers were not.",
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   "text": "People coins and the innovations they created were largely subject to regulatory uncertainty and evolved much slower or not at all, so government and corporate coins created their own path dependencies and engrained product deficiencies with suboptimal levels of decentralization.",
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