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   "text": "A central authority is perfectly well incentivized to ignore minor problems that only partially eat into its profits, so long as it maintains ultimate control of those profits, which is why platform level abuses persist under centralized ownership.",
   "abstract": "A central authority is perfectly well incentivized to ignore minor problems which only partially eat into their profits, as long as they maintain ultimate control of profits.",
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   "text": "Utility tokens are tokens with an intrinsic utility for a good or service: they emphasize the uses of the token and typically give users access to a product or service or give rewards that incentivize desirable behavior on the platform.",
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   "text": "Utility tokens operate as an access mechanism: in order to interact with a given platform or use case, users are incentivized to acquire access rights to the product or service by acquiring the utility token.",
   "abstract": "In order to interact with a given platform or use case, users are incentivized to acquire access rights to the product or service through the acquisition of the utility token.",
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