Nick Szabo  🔑

But metaphors and literary allusions sure are great!

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.

All attention on Bitcoin is good publicity at this point.

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 …

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?

I went through the nausea and opportunity costs of reading your essay, now it's your turn to read and understand mine.

I did, of course, and I didn't understand your point. Why don't you drop the derision and say another way what you're trying to say?