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.
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.