Re: Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

2018-01-04 Thread Prem Chandavarkar
Another argument against the governmental monopoly on currency is Bernard Lietaer, “The Future of Money”. But Lietaer does it for a different reason than Hayek. His concern is that speculative transactions have leveraged technology to exponentially increase their volume and presence. In the

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2018-01-04 Thread Frederick Noronha
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Re: Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

2018-01-04 Thread Felix Stalder
On 12/31/17 8:11 PM, Brian Holmes wrote: > Beyond that, bravo for excavating the Austrian ideology of Bitcoin, > they're all goldbugs and sure looks and acts like synthetic gold to me. The other part of the Austrian ideology of bitcoin lies, I think, in appeal that the argument about the