-------- Original message --------From: Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> Date: 12/19/17 1:57 PM (GMT-08:00) To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: Bitcoin=Death Processor (Death Star if you would) On 12/18/2017 03:54 PM, g2s wrote:
"Only a species that had gone entirely insane, and consciously intended to wipe out life on Earth would ever consider such a process. But any species that could actively celebrate and expand it — must be understood as both emphatically suicidal and openly omnicidal." Deep Green Resistance News Service
Bitcoin = Death Processors
December 18, 2017 by Darin Stevenson / Medium
bitcoin Is Makeworky Unmoney
bitcoin is not exactly money. It’s a potentially valuable abstraction of computational ‘work’ that ‘earns’ bitcoin value. But what is bitcoin value and what is the nature of the work? The answers are bizarre because they are nonsensical.
Thanks for that. Now when people on "social media" sites accuse me of being intelligent, I can present a counter-example to prove myself innocent of the charge. Moar from Mr. Stevenson: https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/against-quantum-mysticism-d6f95e3a2618 He DOES ramble on. The DGR people do that. I think it's the vegan diet with concurrent protein deficiency, but he does make a few salient points in that ramble, including the nature of Work. I define work as tasks that cannot be accomplished if smiling at any point during the task. Rr