Bitcoin Doesn’t Take Sides: Why Apolitical Solutions Are the Internet’s Future
Preston Byrnecoindesk.com
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Bitcoin Doesn’t Take Sides: Why Apolitical Solutions Are the Internet’s Future
It doesn’t seem like Amazon faces any meaningful Web3 threats right now (perhaps AWS in the longer-term). Google search and Microsoft Office may have impregnable walls. Apple is still dominant in hardware first and foremost. YouTube could theoretically incorporate Web3 components, but that seems unlikely as they already split revenue with creators ... See more
Ryan Selkis • Crypto Theses for 2022
To view Bitcoin solely through the lens of economics, say, or cryptography is to miss the forest for the trees. Bitcoin lies at the intersection of, at the very least, these two, as well as financial theory, history, political philosophy, theoretical computer science, distributed systems theory, game theory, and network and protocol design.
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In other words, crypto's use case is the one that it claims: decentralization. It's use case is to cut out middlemen, break up monopolies, and fight aggregators. It's certainly not the case that crypto is entirely useless.It may still be the case that crypto is "more bad than good", but the claim "after 13 years, there are still no use cases for cr... See more
Evan Conrad • Where are all the crypto use cases? | Evan Conrad
To view Bitcoin solely through the lens of economics, say, or cryptography is to miss the forest for the trees. Bitcoin lies at the intersection of, at the very least, these two, as well as financial theory, history, political philosophy, theoretical computer science, distributed systems theory, game theory, and network and protocol design.