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Also it can also be possible that the smartest minority forks away from the dumb masses and any malfeasance they might be doing on destroying permissionless commerce. For example, supporting Lightning Networks is dumb as shit if you want permissionless commerce because it can only work reasonably smoothly if run by an oligarchy of corporate providers. If the economics doesn't always drive the same failure again after forking away from the dumb masses, then perhaps my thread from 2013
No Money Exists Without the Majority can be proven incorrect.
So I am contemplating that the real threat to permissionless commerce are fundamental problems with Satoshi's design that would make forking away from it mathematically implausible:
[...]that doesn't really solve the fundamental problems such as:
For example, imagine that a million users are earning a good income doing business based in permissionless commerce the government would like to eliminate (such as the Big Pharma corruption I exampled upthread), and so they fork away from the masses's block chain when the governments is able to use their control of Coinbase et al (imagine a world government level of cooperation).
So then everyone can spend their coins on both forks. If there is this genuine Coasian barrier that forces the existence of a second fork, then the government can play Whack-A-Mole until they realize that the masses are catching on to the opportunities of freedom and individual empowerment.
The point being that doing such a fork would be nearly infeasible in Satoshi's design because all those who move in mass action are not going to be supplying PoW mining in Satoshi's design (thus the new fork can be easily attacked). The economics are not conducive in Satoshi's design for maintaining the fight for permissionless commerce.
This is the sort of ideal I want to work on! If I can be convinced I am not working on bullshit, I will be more inspired.
I think miners insterests are more aligned with users interests than you think. Afterall if the currency they are mining becomes worthless their operation becomes worthless as well. So anything that hurts the value of their currency is neither in the interest of the miners nore in the interest of users. Of course there are other subjects where their interests do not align.
The professional miners' are aligned to paying back the loans they incurred to buy mining farms. Frankly I think your post is delusional. Get a grip on economics. Usury (debt) enables the banksters to take entire control of the economics of mining and charge the costs to the collective.
This is the fairytale lies crap that leads so many of us to be ideological fools. I want to kill this. I am so tired of these lies.
I hope you realize that the per BTC costs of some of the mining farms running off 2 - 4 cent electricity in WA State, USA, are probably sub-$50 per
BTC.
And by aligning with government edicts and takeover which the dumb masses (and socialism) will be on board with, they are not shooting their own foot, rather maximizing the sustainability of their income source.
Sorry if I am so forceful, but I have heard these sort of rationalizations for the past 3 years and I think it is time we stop being delusional, don't you?