The most obvious stupid scam ever conceived and they actually managed to hook a bunch of actual corporations
Square Enix, Nickelodeon, Coke, KFC, and more fell for this shit while regular people were laughing about how obvious a con it was.
Really puts into question the capitalist myth of the genius entrepreneur and the idea that these corporate types are rich because they are smart or deserving in some way.
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Just to entertain the idea for a second that some shitcoin will actually level the global market. Let’s ignore the fact that there are plenty of ways to re-annonymize coins and all the other problems with it.
What would compel any holder of large capital to use it? What is the fulcrum of power that will stop these entities from using fiat currencies? If the global system right now benefits them so much (it does) why would they give it up and use something that doesn’t?
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This is fanfiction. There’s no analysis of power, no analysis of capital, no understanding of the overwhelming problems with any blockchain technology.
And worse it’s boring. If you’re going to be a leftist crank about some weird thing, do aliens or something
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Now hold on, block chains are totally capable of running programs. Smart contracts are a thing. This could be implemented, technically, in some fantasy world where things happen for no reason. Cranking about cryptography is cool and good.
Dont forget that in your fantasy world the program code would have to have 0 bugs!
The periphery will simply align themselves with the existing Chinese pole of influence, why the need for a block chain? Surely a totally new economic technology would take decades to legislate, specify, code, verify, and implement? There’s no way it happens as a reaction to something, it would be like a space race level of effort
This would be an objectively good thing for retail traders in a few ways, though there’d be some hilarious issues from making stocks into digital bearer bonds - what do you do if I steal your Google coins, or if you die while holding them in a wallet with a lost key? Any answer that’s not “too bad lol” can only mean giving terrifying power to a DAO - or right back to the SEC
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Maybe not over the stock market, but they certainly had enough to send a lot of web 3 nerds running
"Hey capitalists, I made this cool thing to prevent you from stealing! Do you like it?
…why is my car making this weird noi-"
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You’re talking about cryptocurrencies, but Zuberi is proposing making public stocks serialized and tracking trades on a public ledger. While that would prevent a lot of market abuse, its effectiveness is of course why it would never be implemented.
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Surely that legislation is the exact thing Zuberi is proposing? If course it would need to be free of loopholes to be effective. I think we’re all agreeing
Edit lol I just saw Zuberi other comments. Zub bby this is a fantasy thought experiment that could maybe be used by some sort of far future coalition of anarchist collectives or something, it will never and could never be made into reality here
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I think this idea got started by people who don’t trust the government and can see themselves being robbed from by financial institutions blatantly breaking and abusing rules, but they don’t have the ideological framework to imagine something substantially different/trustworthy so they invent this technology as a bandaid fix for the specific problem of information transparency.
And the new ethereum proof of stake uses a fraction of the energy but is still considered a block chain.
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The best way to defeat capitalists is by playing the game where the capitalist can buy a lot more game pieces and can fail many more times than you can.