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Re:The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens by JumpCrisscross on Monday June 12, 2023 @07:04PM (#36302619)
> creating market for data, attaching speculative value to it and et cetera, and stinks of web3 bullshit

Creating tradeable property rights is older than web3. (Web3's innovation was turbocharging securitization by skipping the step of finding something worth securitizing.) The question is whether, and to what extent, we want personal data to be a market good. It currently is.

Re:The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens by turnsout on Monday June 12, 2023 @07:10PM (#36302686)

  > turbocharging securitization by skipping the step of finding something worth securitizing
Best description of web3 I’ve ever read