After reading "Blockchain Sociology"

Jan 17, 2022

"The social system is like a technical communication protocol. One layer depends on the next layer. The most difficult thing to be moved at the bottom is currency. We think that we completely deny the system. In fact, we rely on the most basic elements of the system every day, even Guard it." - Gao Rebuild

I believe that the general public's biggest perception of "blockchain" is Bitcoin, and the connection is a bunch of scams. If you are open, you may think that it is a very high-risk investment opportunity, so you may not take it. However, I believe that everyone in Matters is relatively open to the blockchain. If you are curious, the book about blockchain will help you. Each article is written in a few short words and it is not academically good 101, but remember that you will not fry crypto after watching it. This book starts with a few common words that the author thinks are very important: "learning", "value", "money", "country", "virtual" and slowly bring out the relationship between blockchain and trust, value, media, governance and possibility:

Learning - "It is better to go straight to the road than to read thousands of books"
Knowing that the density of water molecules constitutes the chemical reaction, sports science, etc., etc., etc., you will not learn to swim if you haven't been in the water for a day, the blockchain is the same, and opening a metamask will not cost you money. In addition, because blockchain is about subverting and challenging conventions, if you "don't understand or are unwilling to unlearn, you lose your imagination about the possibilities outside the current system." That's more difficult to accept.

Value - "The decoupling of price and value is the norm."
When we think about "whether it's worth it", we only use "price" to consider the same "value": "Price will invert and devour our core values."; "Things whose price is much higher than value are constantly being chased. , no one cares about commons whose value is much higher than the price.”
"The theory of supply and demand in Economics 101 tells us that the rarer it is, the more valuable it is. Therefore, even if gold and diamonds do not help our life very much, they are very valuable. On the contrary, we cannot lose more than 1 minute of air, but it is completely free. Strictly In other words, price reflects rarity rather than value, but human society has not found a way to roughly measure value that is better by rarity..."

Money - "Compared to the legal tender issued by the national government, it is money. A more accurate and useful world view is to measure various assets according to the three functions of value determination, storage and exchange, especially the transaction ability. "How tall. "
"Real money" and "not real money" are a spectrum. Even if it is "legal currency", you will choose coupons based on "fake money" rather than "legal currency" issued by ParknShop and the Taliban. Politically unstable fiat currency.

State - I think it is necessary to quote from the "Police State": "The state is originally the police."
Taking the e-Residency of Estonia as an example in the work, since the definition of a country with a border has been tightened all the time, the World War 1 and World War II are physical borders, and the Metaverse border that will definitely appear is set again? "The so-called fiat currency is the currency of the military and the currency of the regime." The government is actually only a so-called group that can "lawfully" use force in a geographical area.

Virtual - "There is no necessary relationship between physical and real, digital and fake. Websites can be filled with reliable information, and physical newspapers can be filled with false information. The nature of the carrier is one thing, the authenticity of the information is another matter."
Is it true? Virtual is a kind of "pretend to be real" meaning you, but just like the money in virtual banks is "real", there were netizens in the old days, the wfh zoom meeting of Yijia, and the beginning of more and more DAO (distributed autonomy) Organizations (decentralized autonomous organisations) all communicate in "digital" ways, why don't you call them fake colleagues?

After clarifying the above commonly used but in fact you can't say what the words are, start to explain the relationship and possibility of the blockchain with trust, value, media, governance, because the plasticity of the blockchain is far more than that of "cryptocurrency" or meme coin earns more than a thousand times.

For example, there is a chapter on the communication protocol in the "Value" page. When I click on Line, I can't see whatsapp and I can't see Signal? Obviously, there is no problem with Hotmail going to gmail or yahoomail? "The Internet is not interconnected" because the giants don't want to use the same communication protocol, FB and RSS are all closed and open games, and for the time being web2.0 is closed and tight, so I can only do well first The irony is that the IG of Meta (FB) tells you that it is hard to start the Metaverse, and watch "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" sexually. I hope everyone will witness and participate in 3.0 together.

It seems that there are many good things about Blockchain, is it Miutopia? Absolutely not. It is useless to talk about fraud cases and greed. Are there people in front of BTC who can't launder black money? If BTC is money laundering, it is really three shrimps. Both Matters and LikeCoin Yijia, who are promoted in the book, face very different problems. Matters wants to attract content writers and promote reading, but because they have interests, they are afraid to gather around the fire or like each other; Like wants to encourage creative "likes" The efforts of creators such as "Reward" will not be swallowed up by centralized giant technology companies, but if the price of Like becomes higher and higher, there will definitely be a lot of ways to get Like. Although the above two things make Matters & Like have some "not perfect", but I personally support @Terence in his article " LIKE-OSMO annualized 179%, what are you waiting for? "

Don't be 100% righteous and awe-inspiring, only ideals without bread, in vain. The currency circle is the pinnacle of capitalism. You have seven points of positiveness and three points of evil. You must have meme, rebranding, KOL, etc., all kinds of marketing methods, and all kinds of people. Don't you see how much the community of each project has grown over the past year? Just look at GitHub.

Just because Mi wants the idea to be 100% first, it means that Matters has a halo with Like? The water is clear and there are no fish, and it is hidden in the city. I think the most important thing is to adjust my mentality.

Finally, if you have the impression that the powerful countries are tightening up the digital minifigures, and you know that Hong Kong will leave sooner or later, I hope you will ponder: "Neither the two countries can force the other to submit, and the battlefield will become other countries, especially the third world. Who wins or loses depends on how far the RMB's blockchain is extended along the Belt and Road, or whether the US dollar's blockchain has a wide coverage."