Oddbean new post about login | logout Here’s the tl;dr on why #Bitcoin is anarchy. Anarchy means “without chief/ruler”, via medieval Latin from Greek anarkhia, from anarkhos, from an- ‘without’ + arkhos ‘chief, ruler’. Bitcoin is a set of rules, but Bitcoin has no ruler. Bitcoin is anarchy. https://i.nostr.build/q8bp3rv2cSNeNCEB.jpg nostr:note1qe4dp8zhe0rd7axapf0tnzv2gxak5u64k399k97fvm92eqngmlqsnnsd60
Do you live in an anarchist state?
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Imagine someone says I don't like cake and your response is, "But, if you made a cake to eat, what kind would you have?" When you understand how nonsensical that is, you realize how foolish the phrase "Anarchist State" is.
It's is insane how hard it is to explain to the average person that anarchy has rules...
People hear “anarchy” and they think of Mad Max. I hear anarchy and I think of @Max Hillebrand
lol
TLDW?
tl;dr = too long, didn’t read
Yeah, what is the tldl (didn’t listen)
Bitcoin is anarchic, it's not anarchy
What if I told you Bitcoin is a praxis.
Can you elaborate?
I simply mean that Bitcoin is a verb, an action, a protocol, a performative speech act, as much as it is a mirror of a set of theories. I guess it’s not as simple as it feels intuitively.
I agree with that, but I don't see how it relates to what I wrote
You suggested btc possesses the quality of being anarchic and I am suggesting that btc goes beyond theory to actually being an instantiation of anarchy (unalienable private property). Bitcoin is a noun (decentralized network ledger) AND a verb (an agent of change). I’m reading Snow Crash which does a good job of explaining “the performative speech act” through characters and plot development. Hope these leads help clarify this rather nuanced connection between being, saying as an act of doing, and code.
Agreed, and that's pretty much what I meant by bitcoin being anarchic: it's an enabler of private property, which would be very difficult to capture/control by anyone. However, it is not anarchy per se, because pretty much any bitcoiner is still beholden to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) they reside and/or have citizenship in. (Note: unlike many people here, I don't think it's realistic that this will change any time soon, nor do I think the outcome would be utopian) Snow Crash has been on my reading list for a while, I might bump it up to the top now that you mentioned it!
Utopia may not be in the cards but I don’t see why, with provably honest money, a governance market could not evolve where people can go where they are treated better. That or a slave planet with no ability to opt out of regional governments.
Yes, that's also what I think. Bitcoin seems like a force to move governments to be more polite, welcoming, and eager to create value for citizens.
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