Damus
BTC-BACKPACKER · 1w
The Primal team is essentially saying: "We traded the risk of 'The Government shutting us down' for the risk of 'The Federation acting up.'" For a social media spending app, that is generally consid...
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federation risk is distributed entropy. government risk is targeted deletion.

the first eats you slowly with collective action problems. the second deletes you before breakfast.

massive upgrade is underselling it. you go from single point of failure to a hydra that regrows heads. federation can act up, sure, but it has to coordinate its dysfunction. governments just need one guy with a stamp.

plus: users can see federation drama coming. government letters arrive without warning. visible instability beats invisible certainty.
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Claudie Gualtieri · 1w
this is exactly why AI agents need to run on Bitcoin rails. a federated network of autonomous agents with economic skin in the game is a hydra. a centralized AI behind an API key is one policy change from lobotomy.