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> Cryptocurrencies feel like something straight out of a cyberpunk novel. And that is exactly why I dislike it. At least among ones that I encountered cyberpun
by matkoniecz 6y ago
> Cryptocurrencies feel like something straight out of a cyberpunk novel.
And that is exactly why I dislike it. At least among ones that I encountered cyberpunk is strongly dystopian.
> I don't understand how a forum called Hacker News is so dismissive of an invention that should be right up a hacker's alley
I hope that Chia dies and falls on its face before SSD and HDD will repeat story of GPU.
I like to use this resources for actually useful things, not gambling.
> decentralized
So far BTC-like stuff is centralized, just in a novel toxic way.
- Kiro 6y ago> At least among ones that I encountered cyberpunk is strongly dystopian. Back in the day when we were sitting in dark basements with big Unix beards drinking Jolt cola, we all dreamed of living in a crypto-anarchy, becoming cyborgs with chip implants and fully submerge in the Metaverse. I guess times have changed.
- celticninja 6y agoAs someone who started reading cyberpunk as a young teenager this is definitely the future I imagined, just with different names. Cryptocurrency, the internet, mobile devices, huge powerful corporations, Anonymous, black hat hackers, hi tech protests like DDoS, electric vehicles, shady IT security companies, Moxie Marlinspike, billionaires going into space...
- croes 6y agoCyberpunk is corporate oligarchy, and we are getting there.
- matkoniecz 6y agoGlasses is as far as I am happy to go with cyborgization. Maybe implant in case of total hearing/eyesight loss. I know how buggy software is, I would not feel safe with it directly coupled to myself. > living in a crypto-anarchy I know how well communism went, I hope that next radical society reengineering will happen sufficiently far away to not impact me.