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   Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 00:49:31 JST Sexy Moon
   Reading Vitalik's blog pretty much destroys the claim that there's nothing interesting or technically innovative about blockchains.
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     puffaboo :puffhyper: (emilis@puff.place)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 01:38:25 JST puffaboo :puffhyper:

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     @Moon@shitposter.club no, what Vitalik said. Governments as-is don’t have the agency to decide to stop it, and the ultimate rejection of such ideals fall to broader society: however nice it sounds, anything opposing the onward march of the industrial system is contrary to the goals of those who participate in it. If blockchain does not work to improve industrial output either directly or indirectly, it will be rejected. And Vitalik’s stated goal in that statement of more autonomy and impedance to the progress of control contradicts what makes production more efficient.
     So the possibilities therefore are as follows:
     * the approach is rejected by wider society,
     * the approach is changed to be in line with industrialism, abandoning the original goal, or
     * a temporary societal agreement to keep the status quo (rejection of an extra step of technological or techno-social abuse and control)
     
     And, mind you, saying the social agreement is temporary is redundant. All social agreements break down over time as the benefits of pursuing and using technological advances which themselves must improve the ability of the industrial system to propagate become harder and harder to resist over time.

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 01:38:26 JST Sexy Moon

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     • puffaboo :puffhyper:
     @emilis do you mean my commentary on how governments won't allow it?
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 01:38:27 JST Sexy Moon

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     "There is also the important broader philosophical case for cryptocurrency as private money: the transition to a "cashless society" is being taken advantage of by many governments as an opportunity to introduce levels of financial surveillance that would be unimaginable 100 years ago. Cryptocurrency is the only thing currently being developed that can realistically combine the benefits of digitalization with cash-like respect for personal privacy."
     
     governments probably won't let it though lol, but yeah the tech is close to making it possible
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     puffaboo :puffhyper: (emilis@puff.place)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 01:38:27 JST puffaboo :puffhyper:

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     @Moon@shitposter.club I like this statement. It’s very emblematic of people who realize something is wrong, but cannot quite grasp what makes their attempts at reform or revolution result in at best, a temporary slowdown, or at worst, the acceleration of, the industrial system that is the root of what they (naturally) find wrong.