> On May 11, 2014, at 11:44, Matthew Cahn <mpcahn@???> wrote:
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> Evolve to what exactly?

Evolve from a murder-based society to one based on voluntary interactions. The blockchain is an extremely useful design pattern to help us get there because it gives us censorship-resistant, market-based methods for a geographically disparate, arbitrarily sized group of actors to reach consensus.