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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m_j_r
@m-j-r.eth
> I just don't believe that governments can't find a way to crack down on it they haven't broken the network, only performed "chainalysis" or other extrinsic risk, and the industry is motivated to demonstrate private & secure features like privacy pools >organize and fight...fruitful use https://xkcd.com/435/ comes to mind. crypto is far from applied reform, and there's no question that it is costly in human capital. imho, a purely political solution was costlier, earlier. a vacuum of market structure was costlier, hence memecoins. but there are also footholds like ddocs.new and https://docs.rarimo.com/freedom-tool/. there are other applied organizations like PizzaDAO or Cabin, and the tech behind flash movements like ConstitutionDAO has been iterating behind the scenes. we must be early, because it's not completely applied. I appreciate your POV, think it is needed to force more tangible proof of concept for healthy commons -> timely reform.
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m_j_r
@m-j-r.eth
in other words, negating injustice with math seems impossible until it actually happens.
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