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Blockchain technology portrayed as highly beneficial for national security and military applications
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“While cryptocurrency uses blockchain to enable secure financial transactions and move things of value between people, it can also be employed to advance U.S. national security.”
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Blockchain technology framed as enabling illegitimate control
Despite blockchain's promise of decentralization and security, the article focuses on how it was allegedly manipulated through hidden functions, undermining trust in the technology's legitimacy.
“World Liberty had secretly embedded what he described as a "backdoor blacklisting function" in the blockchain-based contracts used for the tokens.”