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.
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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