Re: [GNU/consensus] ZCash vs Taler

[carlo von lynX]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 05:23:16PM +0200, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> Actually, our ideal goes slightly beyond that: you don't submit
> anything. You just pay your taxes following the rules, and IF the
> government decides to do an audit, the you have to submit the
> (cryptographically signed) contracts as evidence that you did pay the
> right amount of taxes based on the rules.

Oh, even better than I thought. Cool.

This whole blockchain/fry-your-cpu-and-bandwidth technology
vs. taler/gnunet/secushare/liquiddemocracy technology that 
was actually designed to do something ethically meaningful 
reminds me of a general pattern in the history of software
development. a popular hacker fallacy: the teen-age tendency
to rewrite everything from scratch vs the adult understanding
of refactoring things step by step with a clear perspective.

Blockchain people are trying to rewrite the world from
scratch and don't bother if they introduce more and bigger
and less predictable bugs than the existing world currently
has whereas we are trying to refactor design aspects of the
world such as the data prostitution capital model and the
broken representative part of democracy, and we have a clear
plan indicating precisely how to get there.

Developing an ethical consciousness of technology can be a
part of growing up, unless you are already enjoying the 
forbidden fruit of Ayn Rand's fallacious ideology and now
need an excuse to legitimize your egocentricity.


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