Everywhere in Blockchains | Patrick McGinty
Everywhere in Blockchains Surveying the Bitcoin barbarians https://thebaffler.com/salvos/everywhere-in-blockchains-mcginty (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))
Il 22/01/22 15:58, J.C. DE MARTIN ha scritto:
Surveying the Bitcoin barbarians https://thebaffler.com/salvos/everywhere-in-blockchains-mcginty
Gradually, I came to agree with practically every single thing David Golumbia wrote or said, most notably in /The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism/. My overall Golumbian takeaway: despite loudly championing the so-called democratic principles of cryptocurrency, its apostles sure do lose it when there’s any sort of democratically elected oversight of this supposedly democratic technology, to the point that you really do have to wonder whether they misunderstand democratic principles or they simply don’t want any government involvement whatsoever in cryptocurrency, the latter option, of course, not being a terribly democratic one. As Eich observes, “The attempt to remove money from political control is itself a supremely political act that raises profound questions of legitimacy.” ... "Gradually", meglio tardi che mai. Yanis Varoufakis già nel 2013 aveva messo in guardia sulla "pericolosa illusione" del "denaro apolitico" [1]. Concetto ribadito a distanza di sette anni, in piena pandemia [2]. A. [1] https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-dangerous-fantasy-... [2] https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2020/07/27/why-bitcoin-is-the-not-socialists-...
Recalling Satoshi's intentions, it is quite ironic to see how the institutions he meant to render obsolete with blockchain, are now pouring into it and trying to hijack blockchain for profit. Alessandro On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 at 18:33, Antonio Iacono <antonio@piumarossa.it> wrote:
Il 22/01/22 15:58, J.C. DE MARTIN ha scritto:
Surveying the Bitcoin barbarians https://thebaffler.com/salvos/everywhere-in-blockchains-mcginty
Gradually, I came to agree with practically every single thing David Golumbia wrote or said, most notably in /The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism/. My overall Golumbian takeaway: despite loudly championing the so-called democratic principles of cryptocurrency, its apostles sure do lose it when there’s any sort of democratically elected oversight of this supposedly democratic technology, to the point that you really do have to wonder whether they misunderstand democratic principles or they simply don’t want any government involvement whatsoever in cryptocurrency, the latter option, of course, not being a terribly democratic one. As Eich observes, “The attempt to remove money from political control is itself a supremely political act that raises profound questions of legitimacy.”
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"Gradually", meglio tardi che mai.
Yanis Varoufakis già nel 2013 aveva messo in guardia sulla "pericolosa illusione" del "denaro apolitico" [1]. Concetto ribadito a distanza di sette anni, in piena pandemia [2].
A.
[1]
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-dangerous-fantasy-...
[2]
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2020/07/27/why-bitcoin-is-the-not-socialists-...
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