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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
I love how one of the benefits of crypto is anonymous money, but you have to upload an ID to buy some anyway.
I love how it’s a public ledger of transactions so once a wallet can be identified to an owner, everyone can see what you’ve done. Not very great system to keep anonymous.
And if you want to avoid that, you have to use a coin with some form of automatic money laundering built in (e.g. Monero), which brings its own legal problems for you and everyone working with you.
I’m just hoping GNU taler ends up being good, because it seems like it could be big.
the GNU HURD of money
to elaborate, Taler has been busy going nowhere for coming on ten years now. There is no reason to expect it will do anything. It doesn’t do anything ordinary non-nerds don’t already get from money.
Given this, and its track record of going nowhere, how does it seem like it could be big?
(I once had rms email me personally asking me to publicise Taler on my blockchain blog. I never got around to it because I couldn’t find anything interesting to say about it. Literally its only point of interest is the GNU label, same as the only reason anyone knows about Hurd.)
Hopefully it doesn’t go the way of GNU Hurd
The “solution” crypto-people have for this is to go to a “bitcoin meetup” and give people cash there. Or use an exchange that just ignores the regulation.
I am not going to a fucking crypto-meetup just so I can send someone €10 worth of bitcoin.