The people at Ingenico who decided you can’t insert your chip-card until the green light goes on will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
OTOH the coin people want to burn every bond of chemical energy on the planet, revert the past century of protection against fraud and bank failures, and make real the mantra "money==speech" so that the only way to block funding of bad shit is to block speech.
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The stuff they're doing is a threat to destroy the environment & destroy any capability of regulation to slow down or stop Really Bad Shit without extreme levels of totalitarian surveillance state to enforce.
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PoW will have to die but that’s not the end of the world. The point is that there’s a spectrum between “payment anarchy” and “give two major payment cartels unfettered control of this incredibly important societal function”.
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Death of PoW only solves the environmental crisis part. It doesn't solve the "now there's no way to freeze ${evil_dictator}'s funds after ICC convicts in absentia".
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The latter is the whole purpose of cryptocurrencies for the True Believers: the dream that, no matter how evil you've been, no authority can ever part you from your money.
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