On 23/11/17 09:27 AM, helen varley jamieson wrote: > is it fear of death that makes people want their data to hang around > for eternity? immortality in the blockchain? >
There's a growth industry in blockchain estate planning, which means that some hodlers at least are acknowledging their mortality - https://coinjournal.net/7-steps-estate-planning-bitcoin-digital-assets/ The persistence, immutability and public nature of the blockchain seems to have more to do with the demands of instantiating and proving ideologically determined notions of just social relations. > i have nightmarish visions of the blockchain - or rather, a forest of > multiple, mostly proprietary/closed blockchains - growing unstoppably > until we are suffocated & strangled by it all > While the existing finance regime is recuperating blockchain ("DLT") as fast as it can throw money at it, Bitcoin is a decentralised technology that stands in contrast to the centralised databases of the "cashless society". Small victories... Also, regarding the electricity used to secure Bitcoin's blockchain, hydro-electric power is a good way of running miners. Or if people want to use less electricity there's Proof-of-Stake. - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
