Oddbean

The other shoe that is waiting to drop: compute. Transferring and storing information is the necessary precondition to social organization. But then what do you do? Compute, network, activity. Once encrypted, sovereign, distributed compute within dark forest sub-nets of individuals and communities begins to spread, you'll see the State's censoriousness and hostility towards free speech as barely a warm-up... nostr:nevent1qqsd0k9scplwdg5r7a03pnuafg23n8uvxqetchl9wa3dwxdlj38lu9qpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3q6dhgpql60vmd4mnydjut87vla23a38j689jssaqlqqlzrtqtd0kqxpqqqqqqzcsh39v

encryption decentralizes everything - if you can run your code on any machine with cryptographic proofs that the code you're executing is the code you want and that the runtime is not accessible to the host combined with the encryption of data (which is relatively solved problem already) then we can push the cloud is somebody elses computer meme to the max. decentralization of compute is a game changer, it is also something that can potentially bootstrap a lot of decentralized economy. Every spare cpu/gpu cycle and internet connection can and should be monetized.