the most successful political application so far is probably venezuela underground economy
next is chinese capital flight
actual crypto native startups etc. will come when layers above the political stabilize.. it's political entrepreneurship town now
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Re: Political Tech: That's at least the scene's ideology, but I think it's likely closer to BitTorrent, a brief period of skirting the laws, followed by legit businesses better executing the core business cases.
When I said "commercial", I meant not illegal.
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It's going to be interesting to see if the money transfer aspects of it are durable when regulation/tech catches up.
Seems like US / China are probably going to be pretty good at enforcement, but the Venezuelas may still be able to buy services to do so as well.
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I was thinking about Musk's Starlink and similar systems as another one of these. Russia seemingly can't jam it, and it's causing some actual political issues, but unsure how hard it would be to maintain long term.
Imagine is they set this up over China...
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You’re more than a little behind current conversations dude, this is a 2017 vintage take 😄
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What's the current conversation?
As in, it seems like we're just seeing this play out in a real geopolitical event.
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I mean in crypto not Starlink
Too hard to explain if you’re not keeping up
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Why can no crypto person ever give a straight answer to the use case question?
Doesn't seem that hard for anything else, which seems to imply it's a naive cult. I've not been surprised by anything thus far with crypto.
Any link to a good explanation?
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Because it’s an unproductive question at this stage.
Easier to just let history be the judge of whether or not it’s significant. Check back in a decade.
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Who are the most thoughtful commentators on here (or blogs, books, etc) about the latest on the topic?
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Just Google “zero knowledge proofs”
I think this stuff is just too early and vague for your tastes

