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> My favorite part about this is that you deliberately explain _none_ of it Have you ever tried to explain what a bank account is to a person who’s never used
by G3rn0ti 4y ago
> My favorite part about this is that you deliberately explain _none_ of it
Have you ever tried to explain what a bank account is to a person who’s never used money?
Alternatively, had you tried to explain what the World Wide Web is supposed to be about to a boomer back in the 90s?
Then maybe you begin to understand how I feel when interacting with people like you.
- ShamelessC 4y ago> Appeals to “the potential for innovation” are always amorphous and hand-wavy rhetorical gestures towards the potential for some tech that could exist but which we don’t fully understand the implications of. However bitcoin is a technology which did not arise out of an engineering effort directed towards a specific problem or market inefficiency, but instead out of a anarchist political narrative that views democratic control of the money supply and law enforcement as the problem. (from https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/non-innovation.html https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/non-innovation.html)
- omniglottal 4y agoIt's easy to move goalposts when you don't know the rules of the game.