Re: <nettime> Josh Hall: Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far right is one step ahead (Guardian)

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

Interesting point of view!

Non-blockchain technologies are badder (because they are far more 
efficient and actually work) for implementing dystopia, so blockchain's 
dismal inappropriateness and inefficiency are counter-measures against 
the dystopia. It's a poison pill.

Finally I get it.

Blockchain everywhere!

> On the other hand, the bad thing about the Blockchain-based dystopian
> visions is that everything bad that you could conceivably do with a
> Blockchain you could do better and much more efficiently with an
> ordinary database.
>
> So there are definitely reasons to worry about the future surveillance
> nightmare, but Blockchain is not one of those reasons, because it won't
> ever make much of a difference in the technological sense.

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