LynAlden on Nostr: Altruism doesn’t scale for platforms or protocols. Incentives and technology do. ...
Altruism doesn’t scale for platforms or protocols. Incentives and technology do.
Platforms and protocols need to be utterly die-hard resilient and aligned with incentives and technology in order to persist. Dumb, stupid, basic protocols at the base with complicated and controversial shit built on top.
On top of die-hard platforms and protocols we can build altruistic clusters, but those clusters are not universal enough to serve as the platform or protocol itself.
Bitcoin is for enemies. Any platform like Twitter or even more-so any protocol like Nostr is for enemies too. As long as you can pay.
That seemed obvious, but in recent months it seems apparently not obvious. If there is a core bug with incentives that could be fixed, then by all means advocate for a fix.
But otherwise, what exists will persist. Bitcoin is like the Dude, and the Dude abides.
Published at
2024-01-27 00:05:02Event JSON
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