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而最终这并没有发生，取而代之的是，经过一年零八个月的开发，这个计划上线了，并且它的区块链从那以后一直很顺畅地运行着。链上聚集了上千名用户，每日上万笔的交易，以及超过一百个正在开发或已经上线的应用。）

The concept that Clearmatics CEO Robert Sams so correctly summarizes as“decentralized automation”-not justadecentralized ledger that would store the final result of processes that are otherwise centralized，butaprocess re-engineering effort where the entire lifecycle ofafinancial trade，oraland ownership record，or an identity record，could be run onadecentralized platform，stands the chance to reduce greatly what Ronald Coase has called“transaction costs”- the bureaucratic and economic costs of managing an interaction，figuring out the details of the legal contract，making sure that the counterparty is trustworthy，and recording the results，that are the reason why so many people today prefer to instead interact by congregating into large，centralized firms.Asaresult，we may see an economy in the 21st century that in some ways resembles that of the 18th:one where，instead ofasingle company selling insurance asaproduct，we insure each other，instead ofacentral party clearing financial trades and payment transactions，such operations are conducted directly peer-to-peer，and even functions such as evaluating creditworthiness and reputation，quality control，and tracking property rights are done inamuch more decentralized way-but at the same time，where the extreme efficiencies of 21st century information technology mean that we can have the benefits of running our society in this way without many of the costs.

（Clearmatics的CEO Robert Sams将这个概念很正确地总结为“去中心自动化”——不仅仅是一个用于存储过程结果的去中心化的账本，而是一个经过过程重构了的多用途去中心化平台。它通过去中心化所重构的过程包含了金融交易的全流程、土地所有权登记的全流程以及身份记录的全过程。经过它的过程重构将实现Ronald Coase所谓的“交易费”的大大削减，而这“交易费”指的是为了明晰法律合同的细节、确保对手方的可信、记录各种结果所进行的官僚化的管理互动而产生的经济开支。也因此，比起与聚集化、中心化的大公司互动，人们更愿意选择一个去中心化的互动模式。结果就是，我们或许能够看到21世纪的经济形态更像18世纪的组织形态：以互相担保取代单一公司出售保险产品；以点对点的交易形式取代第三方中心化清算金融交易和支付；甚至于以一种更为去中心化的方式来评价信任度和名誉、完成质量控制、实现产权跟踪。而同时，21世纪信息技术的极度高效也意味着我们能够以很低的消耗来实现这样的社会形态。）

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