>future without actual work
Did you read TFA that goes in explicit details of the amount of actual work involved in porn?
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Did you read TFA that goes in explicit details of the amount of actual work involved in porn?
That is complete bullshit.
It's "something something decentralized proof of trust" ;)
I said that the legal system works not because of it's complexities or how authoritative the costumes of law enforcement or judges look, but exclusively by the threat of having your liberty taken away from you.
Violent offenders should still be dealt with violence.
But voting? Public policy? Public spending tracking? Economic activity between two private entities? There is no longer need for the threat of a central authority with a monopoly on violence to ensure the proper functioning of those things. Satoshi showed we can have decentralized proof of trust.
To give another perspective on my "the current legal system exclusively works via the use of force" argument, look how effective the legal system is against banks, Google, Facebook, etc where use of forceful caging is not applied.
I was responding to the argument that "courts" and "fellow citizens" make the legal system work, when in fact courts are just proxies for use of force. Use of force makes the legal system work, everything else around it is just the cushy stories about law, order and justice we cooked up for ourselves to collectively agree with.
And this is in stark contrast to how a contract running on the Ethereum VM gets enforced.
I am certainly not suggesting we should implement laws against violence like the murderers you mention on a blockchain. I am talking about laws governing financial transactions, companies, and other economic related activities between nonviolent but nonetheless potentially fraudulent actors.
Don't forget the whole violent kidnapping thing your fellow citizens let governments do. The mythology of laws running society is cute but laws are made real by constant threats of violence and caging.
Ah yes, the mystical "legal basis" meaning that a nation state can use violence and kidnapping to enforce ownership in whatever way it sees fit instead of having palpable, trustless, mathematical proof of ownership.
Either you're an elite athlete with a low resting heart rate or your girlfriends heart rate gets signifincally higher than yours :)
And we are talking about currencies and the utility of said currencies. About the governing structures and operating costs of those currencies. Looking at USD, a well accepted traditional currency with the backing of the territorial violence monopoly we so kindly call sovereign nations, is certainly a reasonable argument as we are essentially comparing green apples to red apples.
So what does the traditional economy system gives us? War, global unrest, dependency on fossil fuel extraction.
Choosing to have a personal war with a system that proposes to do away with the violence monopoly because it requires a nuclear power plant or two of power to operate is an odd position.
The mining of the USD is oil extraction, especially in war-torn or human rights abusing countries. Why aren't we talking how the US economy is based on extracting and selling and speculating the very thing burning our planet? Not even counting the numerous wars it created.
I don't think the BTC hash function has a hard requirement on using energy from fossil fuels, does it?
You mean energy production?
Do you apply the same standards to threads about personal vehicles? Or for that matter, energy consuming/producing technology in general like, you know, computers?
Tether is a smart contract itself
It's interesting, growing up, I had friends with a hobby for supporting particular footbal teams in my city. And of course rival team supporters couldn't really be friends, to the point of full out violence between rivals being an every day thing. I always asked them why is that, because except for the color of their scarf they fit the exact same personality pattern - they all would explain it from a mythological history of tribalism point of view that did not make much sense to me at the time.
You mean monopolisitc central payment systems like visa and mastercard that can push to deny service to a legal business like onlyfans on random religious grounds?
>any online game
Last time I checked the economy of world of warcraft was owned and controlled by Activison-Blizzard, including rights to all in-game currencies, so I don't even know what this argument is supposed to mean.
Indeed, crime did have a need for anonymous proof of trust that crypto solved. Why did crime have a need for that? Because crime lies beyond the realm of the status quo.
Criminals are to the status quo as pioneers and revolutionaries are.
In the "normal world", centralization gives us the situation where the organization in charge of authentication is the same organization that has the monopoly on violence. Indeed within the rules of this story we built crypto seems to be "a solution looking for a problem", as another stereotype argument goes. The problem is all around you.
The ancient greeks used to think that they have reached the pinnacle of human progress and that there is no use for further developments because of how comfy life has gotten.