I find myself in the nostr:nprofile1qqs0w2xeumnsfq6cuuynpaw2vjcfwacdnzwvmp59flnp3mdfez3czpsprdmhxue69uhhwmm59ejx7amwd9ek7mn5dpjh2upwvdsj74qht3g camp on ossification.
Apathy for sovereign use features kills protocols
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Thanks for continuing to share your thoughts on all of these technical subjects. It helps me.
Yeah, but of course money protocols are unique to how ossification affects the users. If there are permutations to email it creates unique usecases and functions that can be adopted. If email breaks, encrypted messages, physical mail, telegraph and the like are also available. Money converges to one because if money breaks, we all go back to barter. Destroying specialization, and reintroducing the coincidence of wants problem.
I've said this repeatedly. We have a Reese's Cup problem in bitcoin "You got your cypherpunk in my economics. You got your Economist in my cryptography." Some people in the space don't have the right balance to know their product sucks.
We have gold to fall back to.
I mean, is anyone going to use that? Everyone knows the custodial problem of gold at this point. Also, nations states would sooner annihilate the world than use gold in an honest way.
Would anyone go back to physical mail or messengers?
I went back to Keet when Email failed to route my mail. So, very possible especially if it is torrent based.
The underlying tech for keet is intriguing but I was referring to snail mail and people carrying messages.
Separately, fedimint just added Iroh support, which supposedly does a similar NAT punching to the Keet stack. P2P connections FTW.
Everyone has their own definition of ossification
