Very normal freedom loving country as always.
Also critical support for buttcoins in this particular case, I guess.
In communist north korea they put you in the gulag for five years for traveling to another country to give a public presentation on your area of expertise
Libertarian crypto “expert” has better foreign policy than the average western “leftist”
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It’s almost like cryptocurrency isn’t the blanket Evil it’s frequently made out to be on this and other leftist sites. Instead it’s merely a tool to be used and the actions of the person should be judged rather than the technology itself.
Nah it’s dog shit.
The only reason this works is because a bunch of other capitalist shitheads are using it to dodge taxes and shit. So you’re saying we need to destroy the atmosphere and let capital flight happen so one minor country can slightly dodge sanctions and we don’t even know if they’re actually using these transactions to fund stuff.
Even if we said only the DPRK gets to do crypto then it’s no longer crypto it’s basically just them printing a digital currency for themselves very inefficiently for no reason.
So you’re saying we need to destroy the atmosphere
There are other ways of making a blockchain. Blockchains based on a Proof of Stake consensus mechanism are generally a bit more centralized but don’t burn ridiculous amounts of power.
Yes. I’m saying there is value to censorship resistant ways of moving money. If we were ever to see a revolution in the US, do you think it will be funded through BofA?
Ethereum is already moving to a Proof of Stake model. The negative environmental impact really only applies to bitcoin at this point. It’s not insignificant, but it doesn’t apply to the whole ecosystem.
And I know we love to fancy ourselves economists on this site, but I’d like to remind people that money and markets are not capitalism.
I would reckon that any revolution would not be funded monetarily, but rather through material support, either domestically, and/or through foreign intervention.
Just put a ledger on a server somewhere and replicate it across a few trusted sites. All this crypto nonsense is predicated on the idea that no person or organization can ever be trusted. It’s a made up problem to assuage the fears of libertarians who think the root of all evil is central banking.
Crypto currency has value. Blockchain has value.
But the majority of the most well known uses of either seem to be dogshit.
Its like my hippy dippy farmer ass talking about the “ebils” of GMO’s. The tech is pretty spiffy. What gets produced by it seems to be garbage.
The tech behind crypto isn’t good either. It’s an attempt to solve a problem that doesn’t exist and the environment it creates has literally exactly the same problems as the fiat currency environment does but the capture by the wealthy happens even faster. As for the use case of being anonymous crypto actually loses out to the classic methods of cash, travelers checks, gold bars etc because all of the information is publicly available. Once somebody pins your crypto wallet to your identity your entire transaction history becomes public knowledge and it’s impossible to take down because it’s copied across thousands of other computers.
True, but I thought crypto currency was specifically a thing to handle the idea of online transactions of less than legal goods and services, right? Like, its a different scenario between buying something that is other than legal from my local supplier who expects cash and buying something that is other than legal from a different country and trying to send a wad of cash through the mail.
The blockchain was just the best “trust” system that anybody at the time could figure out to make it viable.
Once somebody pins your crypto wallet to your identity your entire transaction history becomes public knowledge and it’s impossible to take down because it’s copied across thousands of other computers.
Once somebody pins your wallet to you, that wallet’s transactions become less anonymous. Can’t you just cash out your cryto and make a new wallet. It doesn’t cost anything right?
Mostly my critiques are around"making a plant that can take a ton of poison without dying".
Seems like the whole evolution through natural selection thing will go into overdrive and create more species of plants/insects/etc that are resistant to the poisons. And since we’re farmers and not scientists and on a farm instead of in a lab, it will take a lot longer to realize that the toxins aren’t working like they used to and stop use instead of thinking “I didn’t use enough this year.”
I mostly agree with you. But also, much like GMOs, it isn’t going away anytime soon. Which is why I think it’s valuable to spend time thinking about how to best utilize it for our own purposes rather than writing it off entirely.
It’s almost like cryptocurrency isn’t the blanket Evil
Literally the only exceptions are leftists exploiting the fucked up system to get around other parts of the fucked up system. Acting like that’s a redeemable factor is like saying “uh well capitalism is bad, yes, as is the commodification of food, but have you considered that under capitalism money can buy food for homeless people? Maybe the system isn’t completely evil huh?”
im really curious how one gets involved in a job like this… like did some NK consulting company reach out to this guy because he’s prominent on github or whatever and be like “we need a bitcoin mixer” and he built it?
Wouldn’t be surprised they paid him a lot of money. Cryptobros love money more than anything else.
It might be that he did it out of genuine anti-imperialist sentiment, some libertarians are on occasion consistent with their ideology and are big anti-interventionists.
