offering a lifeline where traditional institutions fail or are weaponized against us, they are meant to
be the bedrock of a new societal framework one that decentralizes the very structures of governance and coordination,
but a tool is only as worthy as the hand that guides it and a promise is only as good as the will to defend it (we need to defend decentralized technology), the potential for blockchain to serve the masses
and bolster democratic values has not yet been realized in practice
because the technology itself is not enough the