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Bitcoin is a monetary commons, but it’s not cooperative.

Collectively maintained, individually secured.
eb
temp 8mo ago

Is this "not cooperative" true? I think it is cooperative in the sense of data sharing, inclusion of new transactions, etc. and all compete on mining blocks, just untrusted, i.e. locally verified, ensured.

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mcshane 8mo ago

distributed coordination

eb
temp 8mo ago

Hmm.. but that doesn't cover it, right? It's not only 'coordination'. It is also a deliberate willingness to adopt transactions for the ("minor", temporary) mining benefit. Coordination would not really imply inclusion of concrete data/results.