I remember just 30 years ago Clifford Stoll's "The Cuckoos Egg", in which a 75c accounting discrepancy leads to the discovery of the first logged computer intrusion. Today, state-sponsored cyberattacks take down @Maersk just for fun while doing $10B in damage.https://twitter.com/a_greenberg/status/1032238484428390400 …
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So I wonder: What if instead of thinking blockchain is about money, we view it as a more general realization of the need to shrink attack surfaces in a connected, adversarial world. Bitcoin (patching money to fix the fiat exploit) is just this mindset's first product.
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Future products probably won't be about money (the fiat exploit doesn't need 100 different fixes), but will share similar properties: using transparent consensus mechanisms to secure valuable resources that are currently being exploited.
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Many others have enumerated those possibilities, this is just another angle on characterizing them, one that's in some ways maximalist (BTC/PoW=money), in some ways not (many future non-money uses). Inspired by
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.@NTmoney for "Cryptoeconomics is the study of economic interaction in adversarial environments" (https://thecontrol.co/cryptoeconomics-101-e5c883e9a8ff …). Perhaps there's even an analogy to public choice theory, which we could think of as "the study of political interaction in adversarial environments."
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