hi!
> Of course, not all humans will be out of the loop. The chosen few and tech
> elites around them (AKA 'core developers') will stay there and reap the
> benefits. The current contest is about who gets to stay in the loop, and
> the driving hope is that the unwashed masses will submit to it.
>
There is an interesting essay on LRB:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n08/john-lanchester/when-bitcoin-grows-up
which is worth reading in its entirety.
One part
''' Yap has no metal. There’s nothing to make into coins. What the
Yapese do instead is sail 250 miles to an island called Palau, where
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The premise of smart contracts ("legally incorporated programs that
are at arms length from their programmers" that "core developers"
like to blather about) is nothing new: it is to create an additional
insulating mechanism between the victims and the perpetrators, for the
benefit of the latter.
There is one interesting case on copyright and territory. What
happened to the copyright of publishers in the East after the German
reunification? Was the copyright of the publishers in the West now
valid in the East? Nothing had changed whatever the publishers in the
West told the publishers in th
