I read a lot of hilariously stupid things about bitcoin every day, and somehow manage not to tweet about them.
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I don’t think a technology has to have a good or even coherent philosophical backbone to be incredibly important.
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See, e.g., birth control pill, created by a Catholic doctor, premised on how rhythm method works. @vogon
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Future iterations plus platforms on top of platforms —> dilution, obscuration, undermining of any preliminary ideology
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(for better or worse)
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@sarahjeong agreed - and I think bitcoin holds a lot more promise as a decentralized contract protocol than as a currency -
@vogon you mean like ethereum? are you capable of explaining ethereum to me? -
@sarahjeong uh let me read the white paper and I'll get back to you -
@sarahjeong OK so at a glance, ethereum looks like bitcoin, but with Script (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script ) replaced with a general-purpose VM -- -
@sarahjeong -- which can be used to execute arbitrary operations on the blockchain, and charges tx fees per-instruction -
@sarahjeong so yeah it's basically bitcoin + more logically-complex outputs, which is exactly what you'd want out of a contract protocol - 5 réponses de plus
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