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   "text": "Significant failure of decentralization projects is not merely tolerable but necessary and useful, because failures are how appropriate use cases get explored during the immature phase of the technology.",
   "abstract": "Significant decentralization project failures are necessary and useful while appropriate use cases are being explored .",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vadhindran K. Rao, Stable Cryptocurrencies (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3396522",
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   "text": "The dominant failure of the open source model is that most projects never reach critical mass; only a small elite of projects attracts enough developers who believe in the vision, and the majority simply cannot.",
   "abstract": "Perhaps most significantly, most open source projects cannot reach critical mass to further their development agenda. Only a small number of elite open source projects can attract developer contributions.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859",
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