Ryan Grim
@ryangrim
Folks here are helping me narrow down what I don’t like about crypto. I see the argument that it is a way to freely move currency even in the face of authoritarian governments. I guess on the one hand, I just don’t believe that governments can’t find a way to crack down on it. All the crying from crypto folks about the tyrannical SEC suggests governments still do matter. But more importantly, I think it’s a much better use of time and energy to organize and fight to stop those authoritarian governments from existing in the first place. I see so many brilliant people spending so much time on this thing that is literally separate from reality (it’s right there in the name crypto) when that energy could be put to more fruitful use. Anyway, no final conclusions, just some evolving thoughts.
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Benjamin Basche
@basche42
I think you should expand your view of crypto outside of the tokens / financial aspect. This very site is a testament to the fact that blockchains create a substrate for building “hard” applications. Warpcast could disappear or be compromised tomorrow, but you own your username, social graph and content, and anyone can run a node. These are what I call “vending machines in the sky that nobody owns.” Uniswap is a decentralized exchange but more importantly it’s open source code that runs the equivalent of the Nasdaq with the impossibility of being shut off. We can extend this to something like a “Nextdoor” for unions to organize and coordinate strikes with zero chance of censorship from big tech or the government. Many many other things that provability, decentralization, censorship resistance and neutrality can solve than just sovereign finance
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Benjamin Basche
@basche42
And join us in /cryptoleft sir !
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