[FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

[Marcus Daniels]

The concept of a secure distributed ledger (e.g. blockchain) doesn't itself really imply a political motive.   
Comey has talked about the dangers of encryption (iPhone) to governance and law enforcement.   And there was the attempts at making the Clipper chip back in the 90s.   There are always going to people that double-down on exercise of centralized, privileged access & power as the only real solution.   Alternatively, one can entertain the possibility that governance can fail catastrophically.    Not necessarily due to any malice or corruption of leaders, but simply because millions of people have growing & irreconcilable differences.    If you find yourself on the losing end of that, then what?   Tools like cryptocurrency help to limit power of any organization.   In doing so, they facilitate crime and carry other risks.    There's no free lunch.

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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ?
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Ah, yes, here it is.  I should have bookmarked it.

  Trump, Clinton, and the Electoral Politics of Bitcoin
  http://www.uncomputing.org/?p=1826

On 05/23/2017 12:41 PM, glen ☣ wrote:
> The decentralization rhetoric surrounding blockchain tech has been described as a ripe platform for right wing extremism.  It's related (more deeply than analogy, I think) to online bullying, fake news, sovereign citizenry, and a whole host of other bad outcomes, much of which relies on the intellectual foundations of libertarianism.


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