Nick Szabo  🔑

Run like the plague from "blockchains" that are based on the politeness of strangers rather than on minimizing the need to rely on the goodwill of strangers. A seamlessly global blockchain can be successfully run and used by people who hate each other. https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/10/hello-kitty-people.html …https://twitter.com/EtheriumToken/status/984434724230828033 …

Huge difference between preferring that people be kind and relying on it.

But there's a correlation between leaders who criticize the manners & governance of global blockchainers & leaders who don't understand or don't like trust minimization. Global blockchains are on opposite end of scale from the we-all-hug-each-other villages we instinctively love.

I think this is a false dichotomy - you can want to reduce the amount of bad behavior and also can want to design systems that don't break when people are terrible.

I agree that they are not logically inconsistent, I just observe the correlation between people who focus on the former with those who neglect or have contempt the latter.

The reverse also holds -- a successful global blockchain attracts people who don't trust each other & thus more likely rude. So saying "Bitcoin maximilists are rude" is actually a complement to Bitcoin. If they think it's an insult to Bitcoin they don't understand blockchains.