there’s no bank in the middle

13:30 | 29-03-2013 | Economics, Internet, Lifeform | No Comments

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[T]here’s one thing that Bitcoins do that’s genuinely interesting. They decentralize trust. Trust is hard to earn; verifying transactions is a brutal problem, which is why PayPal locks down your account when there’s too much money flowing into it. Creating trust is traditionally the work of federal governments and branding agencies. Trust is also an easy thing to squander. Just close a beloved service, a la Google Reader. Or allow your banks to fail, causing an entire country to suddenly realize that the value of their deposits, the fundamental integrity of their financial selves, was arbitrary all along.

Along comes Bitcoin, a currency in which every transaction is stored by the entire network and every coin has its own story. There’s nothing to trust but math. Suddenly an idea that sounded terrible—a totally decentralized currency without a central authority, where semi-anonymous parties exchange meaningless tokens—becomes almost comforting, a source of power and authority.

приживутся новые ракушки или нет? there’s no way to be sure. но курс заигрывающе растет, и — кто знает? — возможно уже завтра тот продуктовый магазин, куда хожу, где заказываю в интернет-подразделении, начнет принимать их к оплате.

  

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