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RSA cofounder: The world would've been better without cryptocurrencies
- palata 1y ago> "It'd be foolish to sit here and try to defend every cryptocurrency in the world or everybody who's in that space. But in a lot of ways, it reminds me of the early internet," Felten posited. My feeling is that Internet was immediately useful to most of its users. Cryptocurrencies have been a global phenomenon for close to two decades and still aren't. > "What bothers me is that Signal makes you have updates every few days or something, and insist you use the latest version. And that means someone with a court order could say, 'Here, slip a bug into a version, ship it out, and make everybody use it,'" he warned. Not that I disagree, but this is not exactly Signal's fault. If it really matters, one can compile Signal from sources and use that... but then "someone" could pay NSO to hack your phone.
- eimrine 1y agoThe world has became better since there are internet-based currencies made without any government assistance. Imagine not being able to send money because you don't have phone or passport or good reputation among governments.
- tacobell666 1y agoI can’t really imagine that. Is that a legit use case?
- eimrine 1y agoIs the post-Covid political system a "legit"? The governments around the globe have been realized that the human rights is a joke at that moment, we would be in a complete disaster if no 2 persons are able to send means without some ruling class entity as MiTM. FOSS is the only way out there from the techno-feudalism.