two examples illustrating benefits already existing: wikiLeaks continued receiving donations via crypto when legacy payment services locked them out. venezuelan families were able to feed themselves when the local fiat currency collapsed bc they were using crypto. https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1445118135200206855 …
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I don't think you're answering his question which was about how those benefits "flow from the technology". "having another means of payment when a central one collapses" is, of course, beneficial. But that could be true for other solutions.
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it was not true for other solutions because of political pressure. the permissionless nature of Bitcoin etc made it possible. this benefit *very clearly* flowed from the technology.
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That is not technology. That would have been true of BitCoin if it were simply a series of regular servers, no blockchain. BitCoin facilitated the payment because it was new, and therefore, not yet regulated.
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This is the core misunderstanding that people have about cryptocurrency. They continue to cite examples where are not technological, but rather social. When we talk about "cryptocurrency", we are talking about the _technology_ of cryptocurrency, not the _use_ of it.
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The examples you gave would have been possible with any kind of unregulated currency. There is no need for the blockchain in your Wikileaks example whatsoever.
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I already wholeheartedly agree that the world could benefit from a federated currency exchange that is not at the whimsy of a few strong government actors. The question is not that - the question is whether we need _blockchain_ for that, because it is a very costly tech.
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If you think Blockchain isn't needed for this, then I think you don't appreciate that everything else we know about requires trusted third parties which would be vulnerable to strong government actors.
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I would really appreciate it if people stopped talking about blockchain without having the slightest idea what they're talking about.
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I'm always baffled how it's not utterly transparent that "trustless" is a just kicking the can down the road - as evidenced by the ever growing list of "on the blockchain" services that, bit by bit, reinvent the trust-related technologies the crypto folks think you can do without
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