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Well, except for ransom attacks, nobody is forced to use a public cryptocurrency. For it to be common and being proud of one's economic transaction history wou
by numtel 5y ago
Well, except for ransom attacks, nobody is forced to use a public cryptocurrency.
For it to be common and being proud of one's economic transaction history would be awesome.
In the 90s, experiments in publicity like reality TV and the Truman Show movie gave way to social media in the next decade. We are constantly finding new ways to publicize our lives because there is value in publicity.
Privacy shouldn't disappear absolutely but we've got a long ways to go towards greater publicity before reaching the limit of usefulness.
- neurotrace 5y ago> being proud of one's economic transaction history would be awesome. I sincerely doubt we'll ever see that. First off, Venmo has already tried to apply the social media formula to transactions. I don't know of a single person who reads their Venmo feed just for fun. Next, most transactions are boring and not worth sharing. "John bought toilet paper and Q-tips. [Like] [Retweet]". You state that the move to hyper-publicity that we've already seen hasn't reached it's peak for usefulness and yet there are already widespread conversations about the dangers and pain that this hyper-publicity has caused. If we reach a future where people are "proud" of their transactions and are sharing them everywhere then we've made a horrible mistake.