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[dredmorbius]

How are you planning on allocating those bitcoin distributions?

Do you have the context for the Finney quote? Apparently from a set of released emails:

https://news.bitcoin.com/researcher-publishes-never-before-s...

The larger context, from a 1992 Cypherpunks email:

"Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization - and [David] Chaum offers a completely different direction to go in, one which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations. The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them."

https://web.archive.org/web/20140326104029/http://www.forbes...

Argument by unsupported assertion is ... relatively weak.

[Mistletoe → dredmorbius]

The full quote supports my assertion even more. It’s a beautiful quote and extremely relevant today, even more than when he said it.

[dredmorbius → Mistletoe]

I don't think I can agree. Though I might have once.

There's a fundamental misunderstanding of power, its dynamics, and technology's relationship to it.