Decentralization needs physical hubs: local markets, workshops. Digital tools alone can’t sustain parallel economies.
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If we only had funding to kickstart the physical part. Most of funding just goes to devs. Code is king apparently.
I agree, but.. selling online is a start. I would love more Bitcoin bazaars, farmers markets, etc That are Bitcoin only. While we're moving in the right direction, we're just not there yet. And you can't argue with Amazon's success.
The success of Amazon is built on the corpses of local markets.
#Amazon isn't success. Amazon / internet markets bailed out the failing fiat monstrt in the 90s.
There are not many reasonable ethical scenarios where a bitcoiner should be buying dailies from another State.
Offering items for sale online is a different thing.
Parallel economies sound cool online, but without local spots to trade and create, it’s all just hype. Physical roots matter.
True.
#tns 🏳️
"[...]. Rather than buying territory in one place, or trying to negotiate sovereignty up front, you build the community in the cloud and then crowdfund physical real estate on the earth. That’s office space, yes, but also homes and shops - just spread all around the world in clusters, rather than concentrated in one place. You network these clusters together using the internet into a network archipelago, eventually using newer technologies to make them more real. [...] a network state is not a purely digital thing. It has a substantial physical component: all the buildings around the world crowdfunded by its members."