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This is what killed my interest in crypto. I was fascinated by the idea of money as a technology, but in reality, money is a culture.
by danielvaughn 5y ago
This is what killed my interest in crypto. I was fascinated by the idea of money as a technology, but in reality, money is a culture.
- agumonkey 5y agoInteresting.. My only real interest "in" crypto now is the idea of ubiquitous planet wide management of petty stuff (ala vechain supply chain management). To me there's so many lame jobs, waste and friction that could be absorbed by systems like these, because a lot of inefficiencies are just information tracking and forwarding.
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- archibaldJ 5y agocrypto can still Work out as intended iff we become a Type I civilisation [1]. Now it’s more like some kind of anthropological stress test (and an emerging culture too. Hopefully it’s one that helps to drive people to see the urgentness and inevitability of reaching Type I or-we-are-doomed) [1] eg Large-scale application of fusion power. According to mass–energy equivalence, Type I implies the conversion of about 2 kg of matter to energy per second https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#Type_I_civilization_methods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#Type_I_civiliz...