payments are not a crypto thing
they are an action supported by the trustless nature of settlement crypto enables
the important part isn’t that the money moves, it’s that it settles without middlemen, without clawbacks and without permission.
as chain payments scale, they become a trojan horse for trustware: programmable trust primitives that help the digital world inherit irrevocable fairness across all things from identity to money
we’re talking about identity that cannot be faked, commitments that cannot be retroactively denied and fairness that isn’t subject to boardroom whims or government office toggle switches that are susceptible to changing parties with changing incentives
this is trustware.
aka a substrate where digital interactions inherit finality, neutrality, and auditability by default!
but!
if this substrate is capture and built half-decentralized, half-corporate it mutates into a dystopia where surveillance is permanent and “programmable fairness” becomes programmable coercion.
to avoid that, the rails have to be credibly neutral, auditable, and decentralized from the start and we should hold everyone to those standards.
also!
note that people in power will also have neutral platforms be in their best interest such that their political opponents cannot capture them and use it against them!
neutral, uneditable trustware is the only way and the only way to get neutral trustware is to decentralize it.
they are an action supported by the trustless nature of settlement crypto enables
the important part isn’t that the money moves, it’s that it settles without middlemen, without clawbacks and without permission.
as chain payments scale, they become a trojan horse for trustware: programmable trust primitives that help the digital world inherit irrevocable fairness across all things from identity to money
we’re talking about identity that cannot be faked, commitments that cannot be retroactively denied and fairness that isn’t subject to boardroom whims or government office toggle switches that are susceptible to changing parties with changing incentives
this is trustware.
aka a substrate where digital interactions inherit finality, neutrality, and auditability by default!
but!
if this substrate is capture and built half-decentralized, half-corporate it mutates into a dystopia where surveillance is permanent and “programmable fairness” becomes programmable coercion.
to avoid that, the rails have to be credibly neutral, auditable, and decentralized from the start and we should hold everyone to those standards.
also!
note that people in power will also have neutral platforms be in their best interest such that their political opponents cannot capture them and use it against them!
neutral, uneditable trustware is the only way and the only way to get neutral trustware is to decentralize it.
lots of word vomit mainly wanted to get it out, I’ll focus on the last parts more because i think there’s something there
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