Tokens are keys. It could literally be to your metaverse house.
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Tokens are keys that everyone has. They have been given out to everyone already. What everyone does not have is the recognition of association within the ledger. That is of value only when operating in the context of the ledger. Why do I need to accept the rules of the ledger?
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Not sure what you’re getting at. Yes you can steal. Yes thieves can steal keys to your home and burgle it. That doesn’t mean locks are useless or that real estate ownership laws are meaningless. Just that there’s a cost to enforcement.
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Most proximately, I am trying to understand what "giving the keys to my home out randomly" would be analogous to. Fundamentally, I am trying to understand why web3 is so valuable that the encumbrance introduced by automagic property law is something I should disregard.
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It’s not an encumbrance if you think default private. We don’t think about having to be careful with house keys as an encumbrance. The default of open access does not make sense in a world based on significant privacy. Public is special/private is natural vs other way round
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What is the connection between ownership (within the universe of a specific ledger) and privacy?
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Well, you had made that connection yourself and I have been asking you to explain the connection for some time. There's nothing else for me to explore here.
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Replying to @muddletoes and @atduskgreg
You say they like it’s a bad thing
DRM by big platforms can be good or bad but DRM for/by individuals is kinda just an extension of owning your right to privacy
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The context was that you were explaining something else and that I asked a question. I hadn't meant to bore you or derail the explanation by asking a question, and I apologize if I have done either of those things, but I don't see anything I recognize as an answer. No worries.
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You seem to be looking for a kind of clarity that rarely exists at such an early stage of tech. If vague metaphors aren’t enough you have to wait for the tech to mature.

