@hrbrmstr NO

@light I can appreciate that as an edge case, but money systems have other responsibilities that affect far more people. I support censorship-resistant tools, but I think it is a mistake to view that as the primary thing to design for.

Not that Bitcoin itself is especially great for privacy […]

I tend to think PoS-style systems can be designed with goals like that in mind, or with other kinds of proof designs based on other kinds of contributions.

In lieu of the perfect, I'll take diversity of systems.

Censorship resistance is one value among others, but I don't see it as paramount. Not censoring the tax-evading transactions of billionaires is not more important, in my view, than having an economy that improves everyone's ability to meet basic needs.

I hope for money systems that serve a […]

@light I can speak for the bylaws, which I worked most on. We developed and passed it through discussions on Loomio. Any member can propose a change. It doesn't happen much, but it does happen.

@light these docs are a good starting point: https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Community_Working_Group

And on mining, yeah, I've read gobs on it. If there were not a cleaner way to get meaningful social benefits, I'm open to it. But I don't think the social benefits are clear enough (except in theory) to justify the consumption in the context of a climate crisis. And there are ways of achieving […]

Issuance of the dollar is influenced by the inflation and unemployment rates. Digital money can be even more creatively tied to social outcomes. But because of the ideologies of the people who built most crypto, it is the opposite.

@light I don't think so. You can't really gain power over a subsidiary that way. And Zuckerberg had controlling voting rights over Meta.

I have no love for money systems based on resource extraction and disconnected from social outcomes