Inalienable Property Rights - The Law, Language, Money, and Morality of Bitcoin | dergigi.comdergigi.com/2022/04/03/inalienable-property-rights/
60 sats \ 7 comments \ @Goofy 3 Apr 2022 bitcoin
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25 sats \ 2 replies \ @dergigi 3 Apr 2022
I should've submitted this myself, shouldn't I 😅
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13 sats \ 1 reply \ @dergigi 3 Apr 2022
Happy to discuss the thing here, I'll monitor this post over the next 2-3 days or so.
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4 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4 Apr 2022
Loved the apple-double spend metaphor!
We must accept that the nature of information is very different from the nature of physical objects. While you can own an apple, you can't own a word or a number in any meaningful sense. If you want to exclusively know something, then you must not share it. You must keep it secret. As George Bernard Shaw so succinctly put it: "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Goofy OP 3 Apr 2022
Sorry Gigi maybe next time do it your self here first. Haha your essay was so good i could not help my self! Also noticed i now replied to main tread instead of Gigi's comment below. Was looking for a way to delete/cancel comment, and it does not seem to be one. So i just edited this.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @dergigi 4 Apr 2022
No worries, my stuff is meant to be (re-)mixed, copied, and ripped freely! https://dergigi.com/license/
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @shyfire 4 Apr 2022
Great piece! I'm still working through it (kids) but in case I miss the 2-3 day window:
How do you view the interplay between free speech and prosecution? It seems we live in a world where speech is still mostly free, however you can be ostracized from society for exercising that right. In the same way that sending BTC to a certain address could get your livelihood shut down in Canada.
If you cover this in your piece just let me know, no need to repeat yourself :)
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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @dergigi 4 Apr 2022
I don't think that you can have a little bit of free speech, just like you can't be a little bit pregnant.
To quote Bradlaugh: "Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day; the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race."
Same for free commerce, free expression of value.
The whole point of bitcoin is that state violence is ineffective. We aren't there yet, since using bitcoin privately is still too hard (see Canada) but I am confident that we will get there quite soon.
The switch from http to https didn't happen over night either.
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