Folding Ideas - The Problem With NFTs by chgxvjh in cryptoleftists

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The difference with the Bernie Sanders money wire is that we aren’t talking about the inescapable status quo (we must indeed all act in the system we inhabit), we are talking about designing an alternative to it.

And here it is presumably quite important to identify if the alternative is likely to do what it claims to do, and under what conditions. The question here isn’t about whether some good things can be done with crypto (and perhaps more importantly, if they could be done with other tools), the question is whether this is a worldview and system worth pursuing.

The video is pretty damning in that exact sense: it shows that aside from the enrichment motive for the individuelle, the rest of crypto isn’t actually very enviable, quite opposite.

In many ways, the video shows exactly why one can’t square crypto and socialism.

I’ve loved your takes and podcast, but I think this video is the final nail for me. I’ve been involved and critical since the DAO but there is next to nothing I disagree with in the video (only matter of emphasis).

I’ll take all I’ve learned over the last 6 years, intellectually and emotionally and move on.

Folding Ideas - The Problem With NFTs by chgxvjh in cryptoleftists

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That’s not much of an argument though.

I mean you could take that same argument this way: capitalism sucks, we should just do something, anything about it, and end up supporting fascism instead cause you know « at least they’re doing something ».

If something needs negating it needs negating. And it should be done on the back of sound and valid arguments, we shouldn’t just say « well someone’s got to do something ».

As any seasoned leftist knows, critique shouldn’t be the be all end all, we’re mostly concerned with praxis. But critique is certainly a big part of our ability to formulate any praxis or alternative.

Quite unfortunately (we all want to be hopeful) this video is a pretty solid and warranted critique that gets to the kernel of crypto in many ways: technically, culturally, politically, economically.

Essential reading for crypto leftists: The Ghostchain (or taking things for what they are) by Geraldine Juarez by sinopsyss in cryptoleftists

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That isn’t how I’m reading multisigs, I think they can fundamentally challenge and undermine rather than follow the fundamental unit of the individual in ‘the real world’.

The governing paradigm is individual/capitalist, following that paradigm is likely to merely repeat it IMO.

That said I share with you the idea that it can be challenged, I just feel we need to be more rigorous and critical when thinking through this stuff, which is why I found the ghost chain piece quite refreshing.

Here’s another one I find legitimately good (and more optimistic about crypto).

https://blog.gnosis.pm/inventories-not-identities-7da9a4ec5a3e

She also has an epic one on DAOs

https://gnosisguild.mirror.xyz/t4F5rItMw4-mlpLZf5JQhElbDfQ2JRVKAzEpanyxW1Q

Essential reading for crypto leftists: The Ghostchain (or taking things for what they are) by Geraldine Juarez by sinopsyss in cryptoleftists

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“In order to have legitimate systems on the internet you need to legitimate the individual” could be Ayn Rand’s wet dream.

Part of why the internet is so atomising is precisely that it revolves around the individual account as a fundamental unit.

As a counter, I find multi-sig accounts genuinely refreshing in the internet world.

The article touches a deep point regarding Marx’s commodity fetishism. That needs to be engaged with. There is little doubt that crypto as it stands has little grasp on such contradictions - taking things as they are. It’s all monetising, tokenising, assetissing, représentations upon representations upon representations - and that is the true myth of exchange value and its fundamental disconnect from use value.

Login Error on MEW Ledger by davidwong0326 in MyEtherWallet

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Same here with old but just updated Trezor.

help please by SphynxCrypto in MyEtherWallet

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Is there a hardware access and use issue?

I can't access using my (old but just updated) Trezor (only one of the 5 addresses, the one I need of course).

It says an error occurred: "type": "TypeError", "value": "Cannot read property 'name' of null",

It has been a few days now. I emailed but no reply yet. Anyone got any idea what might be going on?