Nick Szabo  🔑

This does not mean, of course, that it is not in fact an insult (a mostly inaccurate and unfair one, IMHO) to Bitcoin maximilists as individuals or as an ideology, since both individuals and ideologies generally benefit from being polite.

I don't know the context of the quote, but I think it's wrong to assume that trustless systems will always have Wild West behavior. Just like the market allows enemies to become trading partners, trustless systems can create civility where there was none, through common interests

I agree that civility will often increase over the long term as relationships are formed, but that's a process limited by our fixed-sized brains, and meanwhile people need to securely send money to each other.

Is there any evidence to suggest that improved economic coordination enabled by "money"/blockchains etc reduces violence over time? Intuitively it seems that it should, ceteris paribus.

With decentralization comes the need for the general population to catch up to the institutional formalities... It won't be overnight.

I don't believe there's a correlation between trust and rudeness. Many rude people are only courageous enough to be rude to those they trust not to retaliate.