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it's like people can't understand it was engineered to be un-killable
by lurking15 3y ago
it's like people can't understand it was engineered to be un-killable
- malermeister 3y agoYou can't engineer your way out of a social dilemma. If the government says "anyone caught using bitcoin goes to jail" and actually puts effort into enforcing it, all the fancy engineering in the world isn't going to help you, unless you never want to actually use it in the real world.
- lurking15 3y agoBut if bitcoin can operate in China now where it's been repeatedly banned and the network chugs along completely uninterrupted it seems like a stretch that governments (of which the entire world would have to band together) have any say here.
- malermeister 3y ago"actually puts effort into enforcing it" being the key. China is corrupt as shit and the enforcers are all bribed.
- hotpotamus 3y agoCorporations were also engineered to be un-killable. The way to reach them is to go after the people who run them. Obviously, if that’s the analogy, then the miners are quite secure anyway.
- lurking15 3y agoYou're arguing that it's a poison (it isn't) but even worse you're proposing a cure that's far worse. So "go after them" in other words would mean: construct a global authoritarian surveillance apparatus that hunts down energy consumers?
- hotpotamus 3y agoYou’ve read far more into my comment than I wrote.
- lurking15 3y agoah ok sorry
- malermeister 3y agoThat's what I would propose, at least, yes.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoOn this scale? Easily detected and killed. Just check their power bill. It has gotten completely out of hand. What was intended to be run on personal computers has become a juggernaut of rampant egregious resource consumption.
- theultdev 3y agoHey I'm the government man here to audit your power bill. Please go over everything you spend your power on and the government will tell you whether you can continue to have power/internet. Hey, why are you nervous? Oh looks like it was just a hot summer. ...oh what's this... sorry you don't have a heat pump, we will take your A/C, now spend 50k on a new heat pump one. Better get started it's going to be a hot one. edit: do not downvote your government energy auditor, it will not help your opened case.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoThose are a fraction of what it takes to be a miner? Not sure what that was about.
- theultdev 3y agoThe point was the government stepping in, monitoring, and cutting off services is bad.
- malermeister 3y agoWait was that the point? What you mentioned sounded like an unironically ideal state.
- theultdev 3y agoI see we disagree on authoritarianism and liberty. Welp, have a good day.
- lurking15 3y ago