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I hope so.

If blockchains can prove themselves to be way more effective and able to render big governments useless, I think we'll see change happening in our lifetime. In the end, govs are people too.

That is the key: GOVS ARE PEOPLE. Impossible to describe it better.

That is the key: GOVS ARE PEOPLE. Impossible to describe it better.

Agreed. Why destroy the blockchain when they (people within governments) can have fun in it too and make some handsome profit?

But they are also organizations with rules. And as such, the people who populate them are attracted to the wielding of power over others. Governments are not voluntary and that is the crucial difference.

And all organizations have survival as their first operating principle not serving the stated goals of said organization.

We will see what happens in the not too distant future