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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 liberat

• 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.