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There are cases in history where records offices were held in rebellion for political purposes. A blockchain would change means of control of records from viole
by casual_slacker 8y ago
There are cases in history where records offices were held in rebellion for political purposes. A blockchain would change means of control of records from violence to compute power.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Archive_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Archive_War
- umanwizard 8y agoWhoever has the ability to do violence will always have ultimate control. They could just force everybody to start accepting a different blockchain.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoRelevant xkcd. https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoFor these purposes, the blockchain is just a fancy way to maintain accessible backups. It doesn't give anyone but the government "control". The law is always what the government in power says it is, pretty much by definition.