-------- 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