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But it is not, if it gets used mainly for one thing: scams and eluding taxes. It's like claiming social networks are a neutral technology. It's the lie that ge
by camillomiller 3y ago
But it is not, if it gets used mainly for one thing: scams and eluding taxes.
It's like claiming social networks are a neutral technology. It's the lie that gets sold, but technologies are not neutral in themselves. They have underlying mechanics that lend themselves to particularly good or in some case bad use cases.
If you could go back and flip a switch and Facebook never happens, would you do it? would you rather have the minimal good that came from it, or avoid that people get slaughtered in Myanmar because of social media amplification of fake news?
Same for crypto.