Re:Crypto lobbying is going ballistic
by miracle2k on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @04:53AM
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Can we please stop with the "existing tech can do it better" that sometime technologists have convinced themselves of for some reason.
The whole point of these systems is to be permissionless and censorship-resistant. Simple yard stick: If your proposed alternate "distributed system" is harder to use successfully for extorting ransomware payments, then it does not do the same work, and it does not do it better.
The whole point of these systems is to be permissionless and censorship-resistant. Simple yard stick: If your proposed alternate "distributed system" is harder to use successfully for extorting ransomware payments, then it does not do the same work, and it does not do it better.