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You mean that government that just shuts down internet, making your 'system' totally useless? Yes, right! You can't fix societal problems with tech.
by louwrentius 6y ago
You mean that government that just shuts down internet, making your 'system' totally useless?
Yes, right!
You can't fix societal problems with tech.
- dgellow 6y agoSomething to consider: shutting down the internet is very expensive for a government and is likely to results in social unrest and have a lot of other negative side effects.
- louwrentius 6y agoFor first-world countries yes, but we see second and third world countries do it all the time.
- dgellow 6y agoAnd that damages their reputation, creates social unrest, makes it difficult to do business from there, etc. I just want to say that yes, you can shut down the internet but that's already a quite high bar if that's the only way a government can stop a system.
- robjan 6y agoIt seems that the people who need it the most are least likely to gain utility from it.
- mirekrusin 6y agoYes you can, access to free information and finance should be a human right. Just like cash can be used by anyone, so electronic cash should be.
- louwrentius 6y agoCryptocurrencies and blockchain were never really about human rights. It's all about making a quick buck. If that's at the expense of other people or our environment, who gives a fuck right?
- mirekrusin 6y agoThose crypto tools came from techno-anarchist circles, heavily based on academia research - not much of a quick buck there, more passion for privacy and aversion to government and any form of control. Speculators are great for funding and where is money you'll see scammers quickly as well.