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Cryptocurrency deserves to be dismissed: its problems outweigh its promise, and the trustless world it offers is not one worth wanting.
Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said, then moved away from
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What David Heinemeier Hansson actually said
- David Heinemeier Hansson · held 11 months Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
No longer holdsBut wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it's currently our best shot at protecting.
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Cannot both be true
Srinivasan calls the blockchain the most important development since the invention of writing. Hansson says cryptocurrency deserves to be dismissed, that its problems outweigh its promise, and that the trustless world it offers is not one worth wanting. There is no reading on which both of these are calibrated.
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In tension with
Srinivasan says Bitcoin creates more upside and downside than traditional money because it makes users power users with no administrator to fall back on. Hansson says the trustless world is not one worth wanting. They agree about the mechanism — no administrator — and disagree entirely about whether that is the feature.
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Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.