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Centralize decentralized (cryptos) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by danileonis@lemmy.ml to c/anarchism@lemmy.ml

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Does the Satoshi revolution need more time?

Most governments are introducing taxes on wallets and NFTs, and all content creators in the industry care to teach you to pay your taxes properly.

The biggest threat to global finance embedded in the system, in general indifference.

Wasn't this supposed to be in every person's hands? Off-grid, decentralized as it is in its nature?

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Yes, I haven't read "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution" by Kropotkin wich I discovered only recently.

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[-] danileonis@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Why you think that? It's just a technology, you can simply use it to exchange value; It's the capitalism stupidity who chose to use that for finance.

[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's a technology that is almost the Platonic Form of a solution in search of a problem. In literally every application that people have come up with for blockchain and other crypto scams, there are other technologies that are superior in literally every conceivable way.

[-] danileonis@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

For example? I'm genuinely interested.

[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Synchronicity in action. This showed up in my feed today.

[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Well, for payment there's dozens of options superior to cryptocurrency ranging from plain old cash to debit and credit cards to online payment systems like, in my neck of the woods, Alipay or WeChat Wallet.

For NFTs there's, well, you know, not using NFTs at all since those do absolutely fuck-all for anybody except the Ponzi scheme grifters who push them.

For some of the weirder ideas that crypto-grifters push (like using blockchain for inventory tracking or delivery tracking or even land title management) there's ... you know ... inventory tracking systems (which have been a thing for literally thousands of years in a myriad of forms), simple QR-code based delivery tracking systems (that I literally use every day when buying things from places like Taobao¹), and, you know, land registries that have also been a thing for literally thousands of years.

¹I currently have six packages incoming:

Two are with Yuantong Express and are expected to depart the local depot at 1300hrs today for delivery to the pick-up station in my compound before 1600hrs.
One is with postal express and left the Chengdu processing centre at 0600hrs this morning and is expected to be in Wuhan's processing centre tomorrow for final delivery to me tomorrow.
Another is with Zhongtong Express and left Zhangzhou City at shortly after midnight with delivery to the Ezhou processing centre this evening for delivery to me tomorrow as well.
Another with Zhongtong Express is expected to arrive in Ezhou before the 20th and delivery to me expected before the 21st. (This one is going through a tortuous route so is a bit slow.)
The final one is with Yunda Express and was just picked up in Nanning city with final delivery to me expected the day after tomorrow.

This is all information that is trivially available at my fingertips and not a single world-burning blockchain was in the loop.

this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023

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