web3/concepts/inevitablism.md

Crypto-inevitablism

The prefiguragative political ideology which is centered around a core faith that crypto asset and their associated technologies have some pre-ordained to destiny on the scale of human history detached from their efficacy for one use case or problem to solve. It is the pre-supposition that crypto assets are simply inevitable and must be brought into existence to fulfil a, perhaps unspecified, destiny.

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