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According to jwz, a fully FOSS, global, permissionless, voluntary currency is "incredibly toxic to the open web", while the bankster-run, elitist financial system that excludes literally an entire *third of all of humanity* is not.
Imagine people had to actually formulate a coherent argument to make waves, instead of posting a couple hundred characters of emotional outburst with zero substance on social media.
@raucao it's the end of a lot of naivete to realize our childhood "free internet FOSS hacker" types are all uncritical of the financial status quo
like, i absolutely understand some NFT skepticism, but being against taking bitcoin donations while accepting any mainstream, bigco-backed payment system is just incoherent
i feel much less part of the FOSS world anymore tbh