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   "text": "Whether private investment funds succeed in disintermediating banks through blockchain implementation depends on their ability to find scale opportunities.",
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   "text": "Advances in information technology explain each historical leap in organizational efficiency and reach, from kinship tribes through nation states to the emerging global society.",
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   "text": "Before blockchain technology and cryptographic security, a dictatorship was necessary for governing a large network because more sophisticated governance architectures such as democracies could not govern efficiently at that scale.",
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