On 05/04/15 09:18 AM, dave miller wrote: > Thanks Annie > Have just read it and very thought provoking. I've been trying to decide > if Bitcoin is a good or bad thing, a way of countering the power of the > elites and the corporate banking system, and is it the game changer that > some are promising. Some good thoughts here. Great article!
It is a great article. Bitcoin has been a TAZ, as the net was, and it's being recuperated now. I think that both proponents and critics of Bitcoin would do well to remember this paragraph: "You do not have to be a conspiracy theorist to realise that the people with the most ability to exploit Bitcoin (to start new companies, to get access to investment capital to develop the technology) also happen to be the same people who already are doing pretty well in society. Thus, even if the technology itself might have positive principles, access to it—whether that is explicit or implicit—is unequal." The technology Bitcoin is not a sufficient focus for our hopes *or* our ire. Although Bitcoin has been something of a lottery within the bounds of the existing distribution of wealth... As Brett later argues, even a modest place for Bitcoin in the world can still mean that Bitcoin is a very useful technology. - Rob.
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