The Meta-Problem
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What can you control?
Two things, with practice:
Everything else is coordination.
What is a smart contract, really?
Not what the whitepapers say. Not what the VCs pitch. What is it actually doing?
Here's a contradiction: we named our most reliable technology "smart contracts," when their entire virtue lies in their magnificent stupidity. They cannot think. They cannot learn. They cannot be reasoned with, flattered, or bribed.
And that is precisely why we trust them.
What do you know for certain?
Not what you believe. Not what you've heard. What you know.
Most people can't answer. They have opinions. Borrowed thoughts. Comfortable assumptions that break under pressure.
Here is what holds.