TL;DR The need for the decentralized systems is not a fairy tale - we (as a society) depend more and more on opaque "weapons of math destruction", struggle with real-world ecosystems that are just too complex to be manageable in traditional ways. I tend to believe that an amalgamate of basic economic principles (e.g. "invisible hand") & technological paradigm of blockchain-based decentralized ledgers may be a first step to deal with such issues - quasi-biological, antifragile, evolving & decentralized. Unsurprisingly one of the most frequent topics in my recent discussions among technical people is…