I have always answered your questions and I once asked you to write a post with all your questions so that I can answer them all at once.
But unfortunately you said it wasn't your style to ask or something to that effect. There's nothing I can do about that.
That was ages ago and at the time I was just getting my feet here. I can't write about things I have no passion about. As I've said the subject of crypto and blockchain is not something I feel I can write about especially when I am so ignorant of its workings.
I thought by now I would get it but even people I know on here who've been blogging for years don't seem to get it.
It's not about asking straight questions and getting a 'FAQ style' answer from you, it's more about understanding the whole concept from scratch.
When I think I have it then I will know the right questions to ask.
PS. Rycharde posted me this video today. It answered MANY of the questions I have but couldn't articulate. This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about.
Thank you for the video.
That's what I always thought when I hear people shouting "to the moon!" and "mass adoption!", that it's a call for more of the same. Once something is mainstream, it's what people pretend they didn't want even though they measure success by the biggest amount of money. As the old saying goes, "The devil shits on the biggest pile."
If there is only the main stream and it wants to absorb all the tributaries, these tributaries dry up. I also call them niches. The big stream is just NOT what people want who are looking for something else. Something that offers them a way out of "more of the same".
But what is crazy now is that an innovative idea only remains innovative as long as it falls below a critical mass and, as the speaker says, does not abandon the principles of freedom. It is the co-existence of what seeks to play out apart from the established, the legal, the fixed, the lawful, the consensus etc. etc. that must be free. It is the contrast to that which is believed to be safe, popular, accepted and assimilated.
I have never understood why the people who experience FB and other industry upstarts or moguls as boring or censorious can at the same time wish for their crypto-currency, which is just in its infancy, to become mainstream. But still, enough people have to accept a certain currency, because otherwise those who, as the speaker said, suffer from persecution or otherwise seek shelter or hiding cannot do much with bitcoin either.
The problem is that those who deviate from the system want the system to enable them to deviate, but the system "can't" do that. If it tolerated deviants, there would be no reason to deviate.
Perfect explanation of the Blurt dilemma. Can always count on you to get to the heart of the matter.