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mp_en_viaje: the theory went that
bitcoin corrupts the fiatards, yet somehow magically everyone's pete_dushenski now, so fascinatingly seductive's his empty nothingness to the postmodern mind or what the fuck on wheels' goin' on!
a111: Logged on 2018-10-26 17:04 mircea_popescu: in short, because this winding discussion risks overwhelming buffers, the salient points are a) that i'm not ready to go to war over serpent, it's a meh-maybe item ; b) that building our spearheads around items we're not willing to die for may be how the converse of
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=bitcoin+corrupts altogether.
mircea_popescu: in short, because this winding discussion risks overwhelming buffers, the salient points are a) that i'm not ready to go to war over serpent, it's a meh-maybe item ; b) that building our spearheads around items we're not willing to die for may be how the converse of
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=bitcoin+corrupts altogether.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, do you understand how the "
bitcoin corrupts" portion of republican ideology works ?
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-21#1804343 << blocks are immutable by implementations ; this is both the source of the observation that "
bitcoin corrupts absolutely", ie, it is superlative to anything the usg can come up with ; and the whole fucking point of the protocol in the first place. can trust evil people to do your shit, because
bitcoin promises it will enforce upon them the dilemma "either be ENTIRELY impotent, or els
☝︎ mp_en_viaje: but hey, the fantasy that it works for them is a large part of why
bitcoin corrupts so well.
mircea_popescu: anyway. it is a plain example of "
bitcoin corrupts" at work.
mircea_popescu: and this is my point here : yes,
bitcoin corrupts. i mean specific things by this term of art, they're in the logs.
mircea_popescu: much like the "
bitcoin corrupts" argument - harem heals. if you actually get one, you can't be "yourself".
mircea_popescu: check it out asciilifeform the 1300s chinese novel even has the "
bitcoin corrupts" doctrine. "obviously he was a bro, and all bros of the world should join the rebel army".
mircea_popescu: anyway, yet another thing
bitcoin corrupts irretrievably. "wtf this secret job has no public log ? a fie upon you!"