“Elements are conceptually … the first instance of decentralized consensus,” Butcher advised CoinDesk. “We’re trying to play into the themes that Checks is trying to express about consensus on the internet to pre-internet consensus, which is that all of these different cultures, languages, parts of the world, different schools of thought around how the world came to be … all landed on these four categories of matter – earth, water, air and fire.”
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