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serious question would you try and build one using bitcoin? why or why not?
10 sats \ 7 comments \ @demitasse 23 Dec 2022 bitcoin
Assassination Markets as outlined in Jim Bell's assassination politics blog posts:
https://outpost-of-freedom.com/jimbellap.htm
Would you try and build one using bitcoin? why or why not?
Personally, I don't think Bitcoin has fulfilled the privacy aspect that the early cypherpunks assumed it would have by now. I personally don't think Bitcoin has realized the no holds barred disruptive properties necessary for truly revolutionary society-changing use cases. Thoughts?
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 23 Dec 2022
What makes you think any of us would have early access to an assassination marketplace?
It could exist. There’s not much reason for any of us to know, right?
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @demitasse OP 24 Dec 2022
I am saying that bitcoin is unsuited for creating something like this, because it is not private or fungible. Even if you wanted to create something like this, you would not use bitcoin because privacy has not been a priority for bitcoin. the cypherpunks believed privacy was essential. it is huge flaw in bitcoin's design that it is not private enough to actually use for world changing disruptive software like an assassination market. bitcoiners should be bothered by the fact that the dark web has abandoned bitcoin.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 24 Dec 2022
I don’t think it’s fair to say Bitcoin hasn’t prioritized privacy. Has it prioritized privacy over decentralization and scaling? No, and I’d argue that’s the right choice assuming you can’t have all three.
Bitcoin’s privacy UX is not great relative to alternatives - for now - and AFAICT it does bother Bitcoiners.
If you want to argue Bitcoin is never going to achieve better privacy and fungibility UX, you can do that, but why should anyone trust your predictions of the future over their own?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @demitasse OP 24 Dec 2022
I'm not makng predictions at all. If you read my original post i am asking if you would attempt to create something like an assassinstion market using bitcoin. After reading jim bell's description of how it is supposed to work, i believe bitcoin has fallen short of how the cypherpunk's requirement for privacy and is unsuitable to build this kind of software.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 24 Dec 2022
I am saying that bitcoin is unsuited for creating something like this, because it is not private or fungible. Even if you wanted to create something like this, you would not use bitcoin because privacy has not been a priority for bitcoin.
Either this is timeless, and hence is a prediction, or it's just a statement about the current privacy UX of bitcoin. I wouldn't argue Bitcoin's privacy UX is very strong. I would argue it can eventually be.
You seem to be arguing it will never be strong?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @demitasse OP 25 Dec 2022
yeah, i am arguing it will never be strong because it has already accepted a billion dollar blockchain surveillance industry
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @01xCc 23 Dec 2022
любой код открытый это и есть анонимность! понять сложно но реально!
Все знают про всех... и что??? это ничего не дает.
Биткоин поможет понять эти свойства разрушения. все дело в том, как ты его используешь... щит или меч? выбор зо тобой. всегда присутствует третий вариант использования. поищи)
Как только биткоин решит одну проблему всего человечества тебе и в голову не придет задавать таких вопросов... но пока что это нужно делать!
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