Thanks for your explanation of GPL and for your very illuminative post. The embedding idea is very good. It contrasts against the ordinary model which is overthrow of the existing model by political means.
The question of the statutes of the trust is also interesting—I didn’t think of that. I suppose that could be a means of ensuring users they won’t get ripped off.
The whole feel of the program would be quite different from Bitcoin. It should not be a shady underground currency but rather work very much in line with the current political system, collaborating, and making use of, its legal system. Together with its altruistic purposes, this will make it harder for politicians to outlaw it.
The last paragraph was suggestive but I didn’t quite get it; if you could expand on that that would be great.
The last paragraph was suggestive but I didn’t quite get it; if you could expand on that that would be great.
Basically, you already got it: Just using technology and having a good purpose in mind doesn’t ensure that your goal is achieved.
Bitcoin is an example: It uses technology and has the idea of a ‘free’ currency, but it fails (or at least risks failure) by not embedding it suitably into society. This makes it prone to counterforce e.g., marketing/forbidding/taxing/externally regulating it—because that is not anticipated and handled. Or if it is expected, the confrontation is chosen. And it causes friction because everybody has to apply their own reasoning how to use it—and each one likely in a different way working in opposite directions. For bitcoin, this shows in the zero-sum race for hardware.
Thanks for your explanation of GPL and for your very illuminative post. The embedding idea is very good. It contrasts against the ordinary model which is overthrow of the existing model by political means.
The question of the statutes of the trust is also interesting—I didn’t think of that. I suppose that could be a means of ensuring users they won’t get ripped off.
The whole feel of the program would be quite different from Bitcoin. It should not be a shady underground currency but rather work very much in line with the current political system, collaborating, and making use of, its legal system. Together with its altruistic purposes, this will make it harder for politicians to outlaw it.
The last paragraph was suggestive but I didn’t quite get it; if you could expand on that that would be great.
Basically, you already got it: Just using technology and having a good purpose in mind doesn’t ensure that your goal is achieved.
Bitcoin is an example: It uses technology and has the idea of a ‘free’ currency, but it fails (or at least risks failure) by not embedding it suitably into society. This makes it prone to counterforce e.g., marketing/forbidding/taxing/externally regulating it—because that is not anticipated and handled. Or if it is expected, the confrontation is chosen. And it causes friction because everybody has to apply their own reasoning how to use it—and each one likely in a different way working in opposite directions. For bitcoin, this shows in the zero-sum race for hardware.