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Ryan Grim
@ryangrim
I don’t hate blockchain tech but the idea of having a bunch of land where laws don’t apply is fundamentally anathema to me. We did kings, and we’re doing dictators, and that’s not for me. (Or I’d prefer it was not for me. I may not get a choice, which is the point.)
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Josh Linder
@jcl
You have to really dig to find the "good stuff". IMO the network state stuff that talks about crypto half the time but ubiquitous Flock cameras the other half of the time really doesn't need crypto. It's just using it as a wedge to create space for their alternative cities. Examples of legit good projects: zk email providing private p2p cash/crypto globally, xmtp working on alternatives to signal (should it get shut down), Aztec/noir laying the groundwork for encryption that can make data breaches of critical info a thing of the past. The real advances are just extraordinarily slow compared to the gross stuff. An article compared these kindS of faux crypto efforts to pioneer species that are the first to populate newly cleared fields, but ultimately die off and facilitate growth of a broader ecosystem. Strongly recommend the full article (by @vgr) for a broad long-term perspective on crypto: https://open.substack.com/pub/protocolized/p/strange-new-rules?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=a20ig
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