Re: <nettime> Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

[Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com>]

On 12/31/2017 12:50 PM, byfield wrote:
> the idea of 'dual-use' technologies... is mostly a clerical distinction

So the people behind the DARPA Grand Challenges are clerics?

Ted, we could have a relatively boring discussion about how US military 
investments have played a role parallel but not analogous to that of 
central-planning agencies like Japan's MITI when it comes to steering 
technological development - but either I misunderstand you, or you seem 
behind the curve on this one? What exactly is your objection?

Beyond that, bravo for excavating the Austrian ideology of Bitcoin, 
they're all goldbugs and sure looks and acts like synthetic gold to me.

best, BH
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