Bitcoin=Death Processor (Death Star if you would)
g2s
g2s at riseup.net
Tue Dec 19 16:27:55 PST 2017
-------- Original message --------From: Steve Kinney <admin at pilobilus.net> Date: 12/19/17 1:57 PM (GMT-08:00) To: cypherpunks at 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
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