Re: <nettime> Bankers on ecstasy (but is the party over?)

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

Bitcoin meetups have a deep religious component, and attendees are 
unphased by the reality of mathematics, politics, or even basic 
sociology. I have seen a slide presentation that contained this:

Slide 1:

Top: bunch of people figures
Middle: nothing
Bottom: a government building

Transitions to Slide 2:

Top: bunch of people figures
Middle: capitalized letters BLOCKCHAIN
Bottom: a government building

The narrative was that the BLOCKCHAIN will solve this. Somehow. What 
'this' is was left unclear. No challenging from the audience.


On 6/23/16, 8:04, Jaromil wrote:

> I think the "blockchain" with all buzz related to it is indeed a
> socially interesting phenomenon at the base of popularization of
> digital technology. For many reasons. It is the main base for
> "de-politicizing" Bitcoin. It is also an incredible swamp of bad and
> quickly hacked together code, for obvious reasons bound to opportunity
> and puerile enthusiasm. But also because anything that has to do with
> the enormous bubble of computer industry nowadays deals only with the
> so called "computer sciences" discipline, rather than with



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