I love the "Steem approach" you have chosen for your thesis. It feels to me also as if you were just thinking aloud and reproducing the information into Steem’s format. Great job indeed! I personally have done some "analysis of the sources"... you could maybe try to ponder about that possibility too. I will try to learn from you when the time for my master’s thesis comes anyway.
There is one thing i wanted to ask from the beginning. Why do you think that a totalitarian state would voluntarily join a decentralized system that can’t be controlled by them? Have you pondered about that? (maybe I missed the answer with. In that case could you point me out the right article?
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