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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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Garrett
@garrett
I don’t think it’s about having no laws Moreso about having different laws or less laws potentially At the core, it’s just about different ways for humans to organize and structure society
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Tos Van Der Togt
@tvdtogt
The tech and what people want to do with the tech are different things. Remember this. There is people wanting to become anarchic with this tech. And there is people wanting to use it to make systems more democratic and inclusive. It’s just personal philosophy.
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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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@baseddesigner.eth
very basic opinion imho we literally don’t have laws apply to 100% anywhere (they have to be enforced and undermine your privacy to be 100%) and in some places non existent at all
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Sean Gonzalez
@aphilos
You're so smart in Breaking/Counter Points... are you trying to be antagonistic?
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Warpmaster General
@my
The case against Blockchain is that there's no such thing as a trustless society, and inventing tech for it is begging the question
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Borg
@ruz.eth
Crypto to me is a land where the laws are fair, transparent, and unavoidable. They just aren’t the same laws we have in real life. For example, there’s a rule that you can’t spend more than you have. And there’s no way around that rule. It’s a fair one, applies the same to everyone. As opposed to the rules in real life, which only seem to apply to the poor and powerless. Even while they might seem fair on paper, their uneven application and enforcement renders them unfair in practice. I’ll take crypto any given day. The chain
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Jack
@jackten
That's really interesting to me. It seems like If "choice" were honestly your main point, then a community where volunteers agree to go govern themselves under a completely different set of rules than offered by any other current country would be something you'd be generally in favor of
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agusti
@bleu.eth
well the internet has no land its a bunch of servers geodistributed blockchains live on the internet we need to figure out the new digital world and its new rules we want enforced. nation states aren’t equipped or well suited for this
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