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Truly a dystopian world we are entering. Now more than ever is the time for funding and developing alternative tools that utilize decentralization. What's comi

Truly a dystopian world we are entering. Now more than ever is the time for funding and developing alternative tools that utilize decentralization. What's coming cannot be stopped but it can be broken.

bmitc 6y ago
Nothing decentralized will ever remain so if humans are involved.
vmception 6y ago
Now how do I explain to my mom that her conspiracies do occur, the influential wealthy groups do exist and lobby governments, but that they have nothing to do with the independent data mining and data brokering companies which anyone can start right now
JohnJamesRambo 6y ago
It is already in motion, cryptocurrency will accept you no matter what your credit score or browsing history is. “The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.” -Hal Finney
- dredmorbius 6y ago
  How are you planning on allocating those bitcoin distributions? Do you have the context for the Finney quote? Apparently from a set of released emails: https://news.bitcoin.com/researcher-publishes-never-before-seen-emails-between-satoshi-nakamoto-and-hal-finney/ https://news.bitcoin.com/researcher-publishes-never-before-s... The larger context, from a 1992 Cypherpunks email: "Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization - and [David] Chaum offers a completely different direction to go in, one which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations. The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them." https://web.archive.org/web/20140326104029/http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/25/satoshi-nakamotos-neighbor-the-bitcoin-ghostwriter-who-wasnt/#42e4aeba4a37 https://web.archive.org/web/20140326104029/http://www.forbes... Argument by unsupported assertion is ... relatively weak.
  - JohnJamesRambo 6y ago
    The full quote supports my assertion even more. It’s a beautiful quote and extremely relevant today, even more than when he said it.
    - dredmorbius 6y ago
      I don't think I can agree. Though I might have once. There's a fundamental misunderstanding of power, its dynamics, and technology's relationship to it.

bmitc 6y ago

Nothing decentralized will ever remain so if humans are involved.

vmception 6y ago

Now how do I explain to my mom that her conspiracies do occur, the influential wealthy groups do exist and lobby governments, but that they have nothing to do with the independent data mining and data brokering companies which anyone can start right now

JohnJamesRambo 6y ago

It is already in motion, cryptocurrency will accept you no matter what your credit score or browsing history is. “The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.” -Hal Finney

dredmorbius 6y ago
How are you planning on allocating those bitcoin distributions? Do you have the context for the Finney quote? Apparently from a set of released emails: https://news.bitcoin.com/researcher-publishes-never-before-seen-emails-between-satoshi-nakamoto-and-hal-finney/ https://news.bitcoin.com/researcher-publishes-never-before-s... The larger context, from a 1992 Cypherpunks email: "Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization - and [David] Chaum offers a completely different direction to go in, one which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations. The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them." https://web.archive.org/web/20140326104029/http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/25/satoshi-nakamotos-neighbor-the-bitcoin-ghostwriter-who-wasnt/#42e4aeba4a37 https://web.archive.org/web/20140326104029/http://www.forbes... Argument by unsupported assertion is ... relatively weak.
- JohnJamesRambo 6y ago
  The full quote supports my assertion even more. It’s a beautiful quote and extremely relevant today, even more than when he said it.
  - dredmorbius 6y ago
    I don't think I can agree. Though I might have once. There's a fundamental misunderstanding of power, its dynamics, and technology's relationship to it.