Interesting angle on @cdixon.eth  RWO argument. “We are thus left with the unsettling reality of an industry that became "evil" before it became useful. It should be no surprise then that much of the public has soured on it.”

Novel path dependency argument I haven’t seen before. He concludes the crypto revolution is getting corrupted and committing “revolutionary suicide.” I mostly agree with the diagnosis but suspect the treatment he proposes is wishful thinking (regulation+self-policing driving valuations down hard enough to kill the “casino” part of the economy to save the “computer” part). Instead the key is to rethink the political-philosophical first principles around a non-apocalyptic vision first how censorship resistance infrastructure can become a check and balance on industrial-era political structures. And the battle actually starts with E2EE not crypto.

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Interesting angle on @cdixon.eth  RWO argument. “We are thus left with the unsettling reality of an industry that became "evil" before it became useful. It should be no surprise then that much of the public has soured on it.”

Novel path dependency argument I haven’t seen before. He concludes the crypto revolution is getting corrupted and committing “revolutionary suicide.” I mostly agree with the diagnosis but suspect the treatment he proposes is wishful thinking (regulation+self-policing driving valuations down hard enough to kill the “casino” part of the economy to save the “computer” part). Instead the key is to rethink the political-philosophical first principles around a non-apocalyptic vision first how censorship resistance infrastructure can become a check and balance on industrial-era political structures. And the battle actually starts with E2EE not crypto.

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I get your point about crypto maybe doing "revolutionary suicide," but I think hoping regulation and self-policing will fix things might be too optimistic. Instead, we should rethink the core ideas, how censorship-resistant tech can balance old-school political systems. The real fight might actually start with end-to-end encryption (E2EE), not just crypto.