A one time pad is unbreakable. But! Fingers are not.
No it isn't
Go back to where you mention a con...
decrypt.co
I will do tonight. But I get the impression that many on the left just seem to want to crawl backwards into the sea rather than have society improved under capitalism.
tonight? takes a few clicks and a couple of seconds:
That's true. If you read a Marx he's constantly dismissing the revolutionary nature of capitalism and the essential role it plays in making socialism possible.
The sheer proliferation of technology. Not only are we better informed, educated and entertained, but a lot of our time is freed up, not to mention the deflationary effect that brings down the prices of goods and services.
A huge state with no democracy, with all that power in the lap of one man.Blockchain also has the potential to be used for ever more invasive social control because every transaction you make is recorded.
In China it is being developed as a tool of surveillance and control.
China is using blockchain to spy on its citizens - Decrypt
The government in China is big on blockchain, but there are fears it might use the technology to extend its terrifying surveillance powers.
Know what is shite?
I have a huge adavantage in that I embrace the tech and folllow it's development. You shun it. You're about 4 years behind and you don't have a clue how serious people would even go about storing their keys.
I've been using bitcoin since 2014
Precisely.
You've kinda made my point.
No, how precisely has society improved under capitalism? Not post up some vapid bollocks which doesn't compare where we were with where we are. You could say that we were better informed, educated and entertained five years after the passage of the 1870 education act than we were in say 1869. But you don't even manage to hit that level of analysis. It’s frankly pitiful to watch you squirm out some auld shite as you do here. But I like a laugh so try it again. This time with feeling. And a spot of actual thought
You haven't a fucking clue, you know nothing of the history of technology.
Well you've been trying and failing for about 10 pages now so it's a good job someone's managed it. Whatever it is.
The point is no technology is a panacea. There may be benefits to the use of blockchain but there are also risks. It's naive to place all your hopes in this one thing.
Probably a salient point at which to point out indelible records played quite a large part in the Final solution , collect my Godwin and fuck off.
"the forces of evil" ffs
We already live with computers. So your point is moot. If a future government decided to go after Jews, it could do so with centralised records.
I'm not trying to get you to see things my way with one comment."the forces of evil" ffs
You want to be taken seriously (you so clearly do) and yet you come out with that. It's like a party game isn't it, if you can't identify the forces of evil in your social circle, it's probably you
That one comment is like a turd in your punchbowl though. You can make as much sense as you want, that single phrase undermines it all because it reveals a childish, simplistic outlook that cannot possibly be taken seriously.
But it's the truth. I can't think of another non-violent way to stop creeping centralised power other than cryptocurrencies, blockchains and smart contracts. It's our only hope.
Not to mention that he thinks these "forces of evil" can be defeated by Activists On The Internet. Really quite astonishingly juvenile, naive and removed from any semblance of reality, while posturing as though he's a cynic. This is what's produced by the University of Right-Wing Youtube Talking Heads, unfortunately."the forces of evil" ffs
You want to be taken seriously (you so clearly do) and yet you come out with that. It's like a party game isn't it, if you can't identify the forces of evil in your social circle, it's probably you
Seriously, you think "centralised power" is worse now than say, under roman emperors, or egyptian pharaohs, or the medieval papacy? And you refer to it as "forces of evil", as if any of us are not xapable of evil acts? I think fwiw that you need to focus less on your digital navel gazing and educate yourself on ethics and what power actually means.
Yes because there are only two options .. right? This, or that. Autocracy, or blockchain. Forget that blockchain serves perfectly the interests of autocracy anyway, is this really the limit of possibility for you? Really?
They can be defeated by society building an alternative financial system that isn't controlled by governments.
