Encryption, Bitcoin, and Nostr solve transport, identity, and settlement. They do not establish reliability across time or adjudicate what happened when a deal fails. Those are institutional functions...
I was writing about similar things with Nostr a couple years ago (on Subdtack), but now I find it to be a bit too much armchair theorizing for my taste.
The notion of a parallel world is cope. One must enter the world and gradually shift it from within. Bitcoiners theorize about future security, I shape (to whatever limited extent) the actual physical security. Who is closer to shaping the future?
It's a network effect problem. If one builds the future without backwards compatibility into the present, it is a hypothetical future, not a present parallel reality of much weight.
The notion of a parallel world is cope. One must enter the world and gradually shift it from within. Bitcoiners theorize about future security, I shape (to whatever limited extent) the actual physical security. Who is closer to shaping the future?
It's a network effect problem. If one builds the future without backwards compatibility into the present, it is a hypothetical future, not a present parallel reality of much weight.
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