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The internet is a neutral platform, you get to decide and determine what sources - providers - you trust or don't trust. You're saying you trust Bitcoin as a so
by loceng 6y ago
The internet is a neutral platform, you get to decide and determine what sources - providers - you trust or don't trust. You're saying you trust Bitcoin as a source of truth - there certainly are other "sources of truth" but you're not listing them or haven't looked, likely in part because you're financially motivated and vested into Bitcoin? Your example of "servers go down" - this problem has been solved long ago with redundancy on the internet, so isn't that a moot argument point?
- SnowProblem 6y agoIn order to have stuff that can be passed around, whether digitally or physically, people have to agree on who owns what, in what state, and where it is. In the real world, government and physics basically do this for us. In the digital world, private companies and their apps are usually the ones setting the rules and hosting the services, and as you said, you can trust them or not. But blockchains offer another option - to have logic and assets that exist independently. Yes, we have to agree that Bitcoin or whatever is that thing, but network effects should pull apps together, just like today we are on one Internet and not many intranets. I don't really like theorizing about it though. This just has to be demonstrated, and people have to want to use these apps. Curious to know what you think of Run!