4/ this is a group that fears intellectual honesty and open debate. Satoshi and the early bitcoin developers would have been on their hit list for daring to discuss potential vulnerabilities and limitations.
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I get the joke. It's just not that funny. You're doing Lord of the Flies while out in the world, I assure you, Bitcoin is not dominating.
The world of politics *is* Lord of the Flies, especially on Twitter. We didn't invent it. The fly net called Bitcoin is however an extremely useful tool to have to help us survive and thrive in this buggy world.
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In terms of power relations, politics is indeed Lord of the Flies. I'm against replicating it in Bitcoin-land, which in terms of extent/territory is a tiny island. Your metaphorical survival on that island is by the grace of mainland forces still today, which is disappointing.
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But metaphors and literary allusions sure are great!
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Jim, the point is the protocol itself doesn't care, anyone can use it (friend or foe), and that we are not a police force. We gotta work with what we have and make the best of it despite not being able to get people to behave like saints. That's the challenge. The tech is easy.
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All attention on Bitcoin is good publicity at this point.
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Here are some thoughts I penned yesterday. (More publicity for Bitcoin,
@eric_lombrozo!)http://www.aei.org/publication/bitcoiners-acclimating-to-life-on-the-fringe/ … -
Bitcoin isn't a "new society", and the need for "cooperation" between users is limited to cooperation within particular deals that happen to use Bitcoin. But thank you for yet again wasting our time with woefully inappropriate Hello Kitty People nonsense. https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/10/hello-kitty-people.html …
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You're free not to read, of course. The "Hello Kitty People" reference is inscrutable to me. Do you want to expand or rephrase your critique?
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I went through the nausea and opportunity costs of reading your essay, now it's your turn to read and understand mine.
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There are ways to describe aggressive expansion without sounding like cackling villains in a melodrama. I think this was Jim's point.
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