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Censoring Transactions at the Protocol Layer — DeFi Intel

Ethereum Needs a Censorship Lever Let me be the bearer of bad news. Cut off my head if you like. But for Ethereum to fully aspire to its dreams, it needs to have a way to check itself. It’s along the lines of ‘With great power… blah blah blah’ The ugly truth that no one wants to talk about, so I’m going to, is censorship. At the Protocol Layer. If Ethereum has *zero* way of censoring, it only takes *one* dickhead to write a smart contract that will pay out a shit ton of money if the President of some country dies. Or whatever other variant. It hasn’t been done yet, but *someone*, sooner or lat

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