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Hmmmm sure I can maybe agree with this, maybe? I don’t think you can stop it though… any ideas?

Nice ad hominem.

Sure, in a state where the legislature/executive are captured by domestic industry, you’re right that that’s the case.

It’s clear you live in the USA.

Outside of the USA, governments tend to predate on wealth, and having globally portable money secured in accounts of your choosing is a huge asset.

I’m actually a well-known author and this is a pseudonym.

This really isn’t that crazy of an idea though.

Read “The Sovereign Individual” by Davidson & Mogg. Written in 1999/2000.

GPS is spoofable… you’re a security guy, you should know this :p

All of my stated use-cases are already in use.

Society will evolve towards being trustless as the moneyed-class pursue sovereign citizenship and shop for preferential territory on a global scale. They will need a secure way to trustlessly store and exchange funds. Cryptocurrency literally exists nearly entirely for this reason.

Ignore the stupid coins.

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I’m aware of a use case where person/asset location is being determined using a distributively owned set of radio transmitters so that proof-of-location can be established without use of GPS.

Plenty of supply chain use cases already exist using private chains/ledgers — this will skew more toward public chains or hybrid solutions as demands for transparency amp up.

Surely, but PKI still relies on cert authorities which have been compromised before

Very good point

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This and more :)

Disagree although I agree that circumventing institutions that control fiat is a stated goal

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Disagree. You’re being too short-sighted.

Smart contracts, DAOs, payments, self-sovereign identity, tokenization of real world assets, a few security use-cases, operating markets for prediction and asset-trade outside the control of external authorities (libertarian wet dream stuff), insurance and legal arbitration outside of the control of external authorities (more wet dreaming, but it’s happening), supply chain / provenance of assets…

All of these could probably be done using a database, but it’s more about the trust aspect than the mechanics of storing data.

Crypto will succeed because the rich among us want it to. Crypto will succeed because the corrupt among us want it to. Crypto will succeed because the libertarians among us want it to. Crypto will succeed because it makes exit a reality.

How big of a success will it be? We’ll see.

The issue here is actually pretty easy to grok. Crypto is a new market, so there is a historical amount of information asymmetry between consumers and producers. This brings a lot of scammers to the space. A lot of crypto is definitely bullshit, but there are some use-cases that I admire that aren’t just gambling on Shit coins.

LOL - you guys actually read the articles?

AWK is my hammer and I will abuse it to every end

Always had CSV support, it's called `awk --field-separator=","`.

He plays Hotel California a lot at Mar-A-Lago. A lot people don't know that he picks the music they play there, and sometimes actively DJs. This is not a joke.

I think that the current legitimacy crisis is the cause for this. Once you have one core source/belief invalidated, it's super easy to slide into more fringe views.

Consumers normally won't tolerate insane prices.

I think that’s a good way to put it, but instead of BAYC I’d say almost all NFT animals

Chiming in RE: Milady. I’m not a “crypto” guy, and I’ve never owned any NFT aside from Milady. FYI: I own a single Milady.

I think Milady is seeing its current success for a few reasons, but I think one core reason why it’s doing so well is that Milady does not exist in a vacuum as some random abstract piece of animal art without being the nexus of several subcultures.

The Milady community in many ways existed prior to the existence of Milady: breakcore music, Serial Experiments Lain fans (and anime fans generally), technolibertarians and cryptoanarchists (Urbit people mainly), image edit artists, e-girls, occultists, internet catholics, fashion bugs, and more have all converged on Milady.

This is due in part to a mutual attraction to the projects supposed philosophical backing (primarily texts from Angelicism01's Substack, Hiroki Azuma’s Database Animals, Remillia Corporation’s members tweets/writings), but also I think its success can largely be attributed to the fact that putting on the mask of a Milady and posting insane shit on Twitter is just a lot of fun.

Having a Milady PFP is an instant ticket into a community of thousands of posters ranging from the schizo-hikikomori to family man VPs of industry. You don’t even need to own a Milady to participate, just change your PFP and you’re welcomed with open arms.

The project has lead to the coining/popularization of several neologisms: hypercitationalism, network spirituality, neo-orientalism, neo-chibi, auctioncore,et cetera. There is a hunger for an artistic/theoretical avant-garde, and Milady is delivering on the promise to innovate concepts and practices.

No… lol. If I a homeless person said that, it would seem weirdly insightful for a homeless person.

He’s talking about Milady NFTs, Urbit, and psychic Zoomers… duh

Just in case they want to make the song a _bit_ longer.

Looks like the drinking started early at GitHub... good on them!