Money 2.0 Stuff: Some highly abstract platitude-oriented discourse

One of the most interesting conversations in cryptocurrencies emerged from a tweet by Vlad Zamfir, noted Ethereum researcher and, err, abstract thinker on topics as wide as political governance, social norms, and how we should update the legal system.

In what Vitalik  called a "highly abstract platitude-oriented discourse", Vlad aims to explain exactly why public blockchain systems—which to date, have taken a largely apolitical stance—should have a more active political process: