Cryptocurrencies are a two-legged stool
“I realized if you allow anyone to mint anything and sell it pseudonymously, plagiarism is built into that,” he said. “If your system is built on decentralization as a core building block, there’s just no fixing that problem. It’s just inherent in the fundamentals.” https://decrypt.co/96637/nfts-have-a-problem-with-copyright-theft Cryptoanarchy - in stark contrast - is a three-legged-stool Cypherpunks Subject: Everyone a remailer: Everyone a Mint: Everyone an assassin https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100872510706876&w=2
On Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 8:59 AM professor rat <pro2rat@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
“I realized if you allow anyone to mint anything and sell it pseudonymously, plagiarism is built into that,” he said. “If your system is built on decentralization as a core building block, there’s just no fixing that problem. It’s just inherent in the fundamentals.”
https://decrypt.co/96637/nfts-have-a-problem-with-copyright-theft
I did not read the link. But copyright is mostly defending large organisations this century, rather than its intended defense of the merit and value of creative individuals. Cryptoanarchy - in stark contrast - is a three-legged-stool
Cypherpunks Subject: Everyone a remailer: Everyone a Mint: Everyone an assassin
I usually see this the enforcement way: "oh no assassination" -- but now I see it is about p2p forthrightness. In the developing labyrinth progress will be slower,but sure,toward
distributed,P-P,encrypted,alternate OS plug ins that will accomplish all we seek to achieve.
But remember, please, the Law by which we live, We are not built to comprehend a lie. We can neither live nor pity, nor forgive, If you make a slip in handling us you die! --The Secret of the Machines-- Rudyard Kipling
It's been a few decades, and a more direct and focused approach to the decentralised norm may be needed.
I'm thinking of, for example, adding basic decentralised components to mainstream browsers or operating systems. Rather than add-on apps that only a few use -- see what parts the central projects might accept. Ideas.
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Karl Semich
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