BTC has an unregulated currency (yes, it still is capable to function as that) to show for it. Probably somebody could have invented a better emission mechanism for it, but not being that somebody, I can’t think of anything with the same qualities.
Governance is actually important. Whoda thunk?
Some day you’ll read Tao Te Ching and maybe stop thinking in absolutes.
Where I live libertarians are the most adequate part of the social fabric suppressed by that governance. Trots are the second.
In any case, you can have a thought experiment of the same town the same size with a group of people assuming governance and telling others what to do. They can collect taxes and tell they are using them as well as they can. The bear problem will probably be smaller, albeit sometimes someone complaining will accidentally meet a bear, the drowning in trash one - I dunno, probably the trash will move to the places furthest from where that group lives, but won’t be really disposed of, because - why? No incentive.
I’ve become a libertarian after watching one enthusiastic teacher organize some sort of discussion clubs. Everyone in favor of more governance eventually shifted to authoritarianism, when talking long enough, because when you are thinking as if you were the government, you just won’t understand why you shouldn’t surrender power and then why you should answer to anyone. Less governance - OK, I was alone in that, but the best (in their opinion) argument the others found was “so how do you host olympics in a libertarian land, or build a centrally planned new city? checkmate”, and of course there’s nothing I can answer to that because I don’t think a society needs global projects or flag days.
It’s a technical decision. There are so many things in life where you can lose everything in a moment without a fraction of your own guilt, and nobody can help you.
Thanks to that technical decision BTC still functions the way I described.
I know it’s not anonymous.
It has the widest reach of cryptocurrencies.
Is that different for non-libertarian paradise-building attempts?
I swear, you guys just apparently decide nobody will ask the obvious questions, because libertarians are an allowed target.
Libertarianism doesn’t deny empathy and “pro social behavior” (as an autistic person, I rarely see it toward myself, not being liked and not making right faces - apparently not deserving of it, but OK ; it’s already good if those “pro social” people don’t consider it normal to steal from you when they don’t like you), it actually relies on those more.
The issue is that it’s something that needs scale and consistency. You can’t just assemble a bunch of idealists and crooks and expect them to make a working mechanism.
I don’t think there were many more successful attempts by left anarchists.
BTC is useful though.
It’s very easy to judge from the EU, but if you are in Russia and need to pay for something in the interwebs, it’s very convenient to have an imperfect, but kinda functioning system like this.
(Idiots replying with “go rebel” or “change location” need not bother, I happen to have family, friends, dog, ASD and BAD, my sister who’s on my support every time she makes a planning mistake can change location, I can’t. I’m also not a Jedi chosen one to have useful options of “rebelling”.)
Zelensky is a bit like a CEO presenting his company’s prospects. He was talking like this two years ago, too.
I personally think he’s not wrong. Just - until Kremlin gang’s members and their families are being caught and jailed\deported all over the globe, or at least in NATO countries, this is all bullshit. Well, maybe after failing in Ukraine they’ll attack some smaller and weaker country, just to show themselves they can defeat someone. And maybe they’ll try again.
In any case - yes, that leadership keeps Russia weak, inefficient, dependent, but as everyone can see, it’s also capable of destruction on scale too big to allow. So maybe some optimism should be applied and the goal be for Russia’s regime to change and for it to have a democracy that may make its potential useful for everyone around. The “keeping it weak” approach, after all, has already led to Putin.
Since a bit earlier or so I’ve read.
That’s called a host. It’s a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship between a human and a goauld.