[Cryptography] Standards Trolls: Re: Bitcoin is a disaster.

Simun simun.matcha at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 01:52:10 EST 2021


On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 18:07 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Note that if this has nothing to do with cryptography, or for that
> matter, any kind of technical question.  This is fundmentally a
> social
> question.  Whether you use the formulation "everyone agrees that X
> has
> value" or "everyone has the collective delusion that X has value",
> and
> whether X is Bitcoin, or Euro, or U.S. Dollar, or Dogecoin, this is
> more about psychology and belief rather than some kind of math or
> computer science question.


Money is a religion, not a science.

https://www.ynharari.com/topic/money-and-politics/



Simun


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