Nordics are walking back the cashless society initiative because their centralized implementation of the concept is too fragile. Cash turns out necessary as a backup. Ethereum needs to be resilient enough, and private enough, to be able to credibly play this kind of role.

"Burn down the legitimacy of existing paradigms" vitalik.eth challenges us to rethink DAOs from scratch: Privacy by default. AI for preference expression, humans for accountability. Most DAOs today just move money from A to B—we can do so much more.