Ryan Sean Adams (rsa.eth)
@rsa.eth
The right to bear crypto Spent my weekend reading a 2nd amendment case for cryptography. If Americans cared about encryption as much as they care about guns there'd be a much different conversation rn in DC. And they should. Need a podcast on this https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2882074
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Sasha Barrie
@kapuster
Dangerous argument that will attract dangerous people. Crypto is not a weapon. It can be used as a tool of war but so can be any money, so can be words, so can be ideas - doesn’t make them arms.
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Sasha Barrie
@kapuster
Crypto is a technology. And the forms and use cases it expresses itself in should be treated differently depending on what they are. Money. Commodities. Innovative financial instruments. Art. Collectibles. Data bases. Not arms.
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Sasha Barrie
@kapuster
X-ray machines produce radiation. Cars kill people. Electricity is deadly. We don’t treat any of these as arms. Neither should we.
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Sasha Barrie
@kapuster
The right to bear arms is not the only right that should be protected vehemently. If anything, crypto is speech. Think of how code is protected by the same copyright rules as literary work.
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Sasha Barrie
@kapuster
Finally, to put it bluntly, “let’s classify crypto as a weapon so that we can protect our right to bear it” is a very American way of thinking. The rest of the world thinks very differently about guns.
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