Just totally shocking how Bitcoin, which its proponents advertise as a means of obtaining freedom from big government, is so popular with authoritarians.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/12/el-salvador-bitcoin-volcano-faq/ …
it's like they kind of missed the part in Cryptonomicon where the weirdo libertarian protagonists' government-free digital currency and data haven depends entirely on the whims of a tiny country's tinpot dictator
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For that matter, they missed the entire history of open source software, where many false starts meant they realized they had to EXPLICITLY provide a legal framework that copyrighted it to nobody so it can't be scooped up by the first opportunist.
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