I'll admit to some nerd shit and say that the Mars trilogy was an important part of my becoming a leftist. It got me to question my capitalist realism and think that maybe a better society is possible. I'm reading his most recent book though and he has this long, weird riddle thing where the answer was blockchain and I found it super off putting.

  • disco [any]
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    4 years ago

    Cryptocurrency is good, actually.

    Don’t get distracted by all the creeps and grifters who have latched onto it because they see easy money. The concept of a decentralized monetary system that you can’t lock someone out of is necessary if we want to break the system of global capital. We need to be able to move money around without big banks or federal agents getting in the way.

    Also, it’s cool to be able to buy drugs safely.

      • disco [any]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, that shit is indeed a disaster. It’s not inherent to crypto currency though, only to certain implementations.

        Something like burst coin uses like 1/500th the energy as Bitcoin does.