Bitcoin=Death Processor (Death Star if you would)

[g2s at riseup.net (g2s)]

-------- 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 itâ??â??â??must be understood
> as both emphatically suicidal and openly omnicidal."
> Â 
> Deep Green Resistance News Service
> 
> Â Bitcoin = Death Processors
> 
> December 18, 2017
> Â by Darin Stevenson / Medium
> 
> bitcoin Is Makeworky Unmoney
> 
> bitcoin is not exactly money. Itâ??s a potentially valuable abstraction of
> computational â??workâ?? that â??earnsâ?? 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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