booomagnolia

The slides make a number of decent points, but the general tone ends up being self-defeating, which is a shame because many of these points are actually worth debating in depth.

Specifically, on governance of blockchains (as in: trustless distributed consensus systems, and not as in: merkle chains), I do tend to agree with the tweets that devs have a huge amount of pull, and that this is both grossly under-estimated and under-discussed.

DNS needs to be moved to a blockchain system yesterday.

After currency, it's close to being the second killer app for blockchain.

Anything else, as in anything centralized, will be vulnerable to random state actor censorship, be they China, the Google, USG, Turkey or any other deplorables and is therefore broken.

Namecoin was an early attempt at that (almost as old as bitcoin), but it came in too early.

Time to restart that train.

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