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melvincarvalho | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Different kinds of propaganda.  "Integration" propaganda is to create a cult type thing.  But it's too fractured to work.  So you get disintegration.

"Agitation" or agit prop is used to rile people up, get them want to go to war, revenge etc.  

"Horizontal" prop is creating controversial topics to argue about down the pub.  This is particularly effective in keeping a population exhaused and docile.

If they do hit the red button, we can be content that bitcoin miners have done their part helping to stave off a nuclear winter :)



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mike | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I understood, in broad terms, the different types of propaganda, but it's useful to have the definitions.

I guess integration propaganda in part, explains the Bitcoin fork wars?
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melvincarvalho | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Good question.  There was lots of agit prop.  "We cant go on like this".  "We cant just do nothing".  "For bitcoin to be a success ...".  You may recognize these recurring tropes even today, they will trot them out again.

Then there was an element of integration prop.  Lets keep it open source. Let's keep the core developers.

There's obviously more nuance here, because you dont want dogmatic gatekeepers, and you also dont want to starve innovation.  However, bitcoin has the magical property that not tinkering with it, makes it stronger.  The only caveat here, is that the subsidy halves every 4 years, and with it, some of the security.  It's a complex topic, that needs rational analysis.

But Im guessing here really.  I do think we're still wide open to such attacks (e.g. drivechains is one), and have very limited tools to defend.  Maybe they will improve with time.  The fight goes on ...