[HN Gopher] Fictional Cryptocurrencies ___________________________________________________________________ Fictional Cryptocurrencies Author : gadtfly Score : 53 points Date : 2021-02-12 19:31 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (astralcodexten.substack.com) (TXT) w3m dump (astralcodexten.substack.com) | blamestross wrote: | It misses one of the coolest ones. Slow Money, from (Neptune's | Brood)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune%27s_Brood] is based | on using the speed of light and the triangle inequality to verify | transactions via the laws of physics. | | You are allowed to double spend as long as the two expenditures | are outside each other's light cones. | LolWolf wrote: | I think these are just made up by Scott, but that is a | phenomenal-sounding book! I am quite curious and will check it | out :) | sxp wrote: | This was an awesome concept at the time. It was one of the | reasons I became pro-Bitcoin along with _Cryptonomicon_. | Unfortunately, Stross became anti-crypto afterwards: | https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-i-w... | | The technolibertarian ideology that was in some of his earlier | writing were replaced with more authoritarian & leftist views | so he said "BitCoin looks like it was designed as a weapon | intended to damage central banking and money issuing banks, | with a Libertarian political agenda in mind--to damage states | ability to collect tax and monitor their citizens financial | transactions." as if it was a bad thing. | | P.S, what's the basis of your username? Any relation to | https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cstross ? | AnthonyMouse wrote: | > as if it was a bad thing. | | Future generations may look back on mandatory financial | surveillance the same way we look back on general warrants. | | Especially because the claims don't match the requirements. | If you want to make sure someone is paying their income tax, | you don't need to know who the _buyer_ is. But the same is | true of sales tax, which is likewise collected by the seller. | | And it's the buyer who most needs privacy. The mosque or | synagogue or gay bar or abortion clinic or adult book store | may not be hiding what it is from the government, but their | patrons shouldn't have to reveal that they're patrons. | | Yet if you try to activate a prepaid credit card, they want | your name. For what? | epx wrote: | This will cost me some HN points (that could be a digital | currency itself) but | http://viuvasdobitcho.blogspot.com/2014/01/bitchocoin-launch... | bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: | A centralized digital currency. Just like fiat currencies | nowadays. | vmception wrote: | Forgot to add PETRO to the list | | Fictional because they never issued it ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-02-12 23:00 UTC)