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balajis
@balajis.eth
HARD CLOUDS We didn’t have hard state borders in the premodern era. Maps weren’t advanced, passports weren’t issued, travel was infrequent. Dividing the land up into disjoint nation states was very much a new idea. I think we are currently in a similarly fuzzy era of network borders. Maps of the cloud aren’t advanced, digital passports are inchoate, transit between networks is still largely frictionless. But China and crypto are changing that. That is: the Great Firewall and the Bitcoin Blockchain take network borders *seriously.* In totally different ways, Xi and Satoshi treat Internet defense as central to their community’s continued existence. So they built hard clouds. Meanwhile, the legacy nation state was built *before* the cloud. And ideas developed back then don’t necessarily work today in the same way. Eg: if hostile foreigners have free speech on your trusted network, if they can send any bits they want, they may script your drones or take your coins. So cloud borders will harden.
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kvk
@kiranvk.eth
What do you mean by hard borders by bitcoin?Are you referring to interoperability issue between blockchain networks?
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balajis
@balajis.eth
I mean that Bitcoin is inviolable property. And after 15 years people so far haven’t been able to hack it. That’s not guaranteed to always be the case and requires constant vigilance. But it is remarkable.
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kvk
@kiranvk.eth
Yes that's correct, as long as the community and maintainers are competent enough, maybe it will remain as such.
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