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Thus Spoke Senator Warren. One of the Senate’s most prominent crypto skeptics doubled down on her criticism of the potential danger of blockchain technology in a hearing on Tuesday. The tone of the hearing, aggressively titled “Cryptocurrencies: What are they good for?”, seems to suggest lawmakers’ hesitation, if not hostility, towards cryptocurrencies’ financial applications. A thought experiment in which a software bug in Ethereum could plague the traditional financial system is enough to inspire fear of rendering the financial system “at the whims of some shadowy, faceless group of super-coders and miners.” Way to reinforce baseless prejudice against the tech-inclined — a good hoodie tagline nonetheless.