Rob Myers on Fri, 3 Mar 2017 00:42:05 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> In Praise of Cash |
On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, at 09:22 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: > Just to mention the latest, and perhaps the most insidious entry in the > war on cash: Bitcoin, all-transactions-always-public PoW hash system > operated mostly by Chinese mints, touted to post-New Agers as the Next > Big Thing. Bitcoin was war on the war on cash. > The unique aspect of Bitcoin is that it represents a merger of two > ideologies - one well described in the subject essay, and the other That it managed to do this while being an evil AnCap conspiracy is very impressive. > being California model of centralized-everything through middlemen apps, > where middlemen middle between myriad aspects of the human existence on Middlemen are "trusted third parties". > one side, and a single-digit number of fascistic monopolies on the other > side. This is an Adam Curtis cheese dream of what Bitcoin's recuperation by its enemies represents. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: