Nick Szabo  🔑

Sadly no, disinfo is huge wrt censorship resistance. Too many centralized "crypto" biz are still busy duping controversial services into thinking they share this crucial attribute, then screwing them when inevitably their single point of failure falls prey to political activism.

I can remember the @getongab guy in a video where he is standing in s field & it's snowing & talking about how speech is being censored on the social media platforms , I think he is joking here

But his alternative social platform is also centralized, thus censorable by infrastructure providers, & they made repeated bad decisions to use centralized payment processors. Despite their awful experiences they are still in early stages of learning about censorship resistance.

OK your probably right on that, they really have to think through how something is structured but at the same cashflow & paying all their bills has to be done too _ it is a kind of a paradox : you can be pro crypto & decentralisation but you are tied to the 'real' world as well

They are getting shut down by almost every major infrastructure provider. To survive they have to go full turkey crypto with their supply chain -- pay their employees & as many suppliers as possible in a trust-minimized crypto. If they can't or won't do that they will die.

Nick, this is all makes sense but I am wondering ( and sorry I have not done my own research yet ) how does an employer handle paying employees crypto? That may sound dumb in a way but don't they run into real world hurdles? IRS, etc.. And what crypto would be used? #Bitcoin?

It depends on the jurisdiction and the privacy characteristics of the technology used. War is being waged on them -- if they don't use the most effective technologies available, they will be defeated and destroyed.

I would like to see a public crypto debate between Nick Szabo and Peter Schiff.