News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin by deafcalculus on Monday November 26, 2018 @06:09AM (#18532492)
Nope! Most cryptocurrencies are even more deflationary and are designed to benefit the protocol designers and early investors. That doesn't mean we should stop trying! I haven't seen any good arguments for why a cryptocurrency cannot possibly work. Once the dot-com phase of crypto ends, there may be more serious efforts to make a currency that's actually useful. I'd argue that people in Greece could use one right now if there was a sane way to bootstrap the process.
Re:Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin by dustingetz on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:14AM (#18533061)
I agree that innovation is good and cryptocurrency is innovative. Jack Rasmus (economist) wrote a great book "Looting Greece" of which I read the first 10%. Rasmus argues that Greece has been subjected by the EU to financial imperialism and colonial-like wealth extraction. In essence it has been conquered. I don't see how cryptocurrency is useful in preventing a group of elites from conquering another. In practice, it only changes who the elites are.

https://www.amazon.com/Looting-Greece-Financial-Imperialism-...