Devils advocacy supports certain CBDCs and Biometrics

professor rat pro2rat at yahoo.com.au
Mon May 15 13:31:36 PDT 2023


If my local govt decides to follow China and give away money while promising not to spy on small transactions then sign me up.  I figure the overall effect of switching to electronic money means cryptoanarchy is made faster and easier.
We've already seen the worlds most powerful Govt squib full-blown-fascism when they last had the chance.
That window of opportunity closed over two decades ago.  Even if all the worlds govts combined now they could not roll out full-blown-fascism. The best they can do is covert-fascism where they ' collect it all ' then store it where its only read by spider-bots. 
And this brings us to Worldcoin which has some similarities with Palantir and the 9-EYE's 
>From a cypherpunk informed point of view biometrics are all bad. So Worldcoin is condemned out of hand. Moving off the reservation though a place may be found for any new technology promising utilitarian outcomes. Kludges might also improve this to an acceptable standard where the ZK-proofs are secure and the whole thing is networked via quantum PKI.
Gall’s Law states that all complex systems that work evolved from simpler systems that worked. So let it be with WC.
And hand over my fuckin' money.
I wanna run some more deadpools on world leaders ( and serial pests like Gramps and Semich )


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