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[–] prototype_g2@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

now your trust relies on your subject never becoming important enough that someone bothers to run 50%+1 of the nodes in your network

Yup. Very well said. People don't realize the extent of wealth inequality (and how ridiculously resource intensive blockchain tech is). If anything important were to be decide by a blockchain, the top 1% would control the network.

More on wealth inequality here.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Today's inequality was created by the Cantillon effect.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What happened in 1972?

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Soviet Union launched Venus-8

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Automation, computers. It was the early '80s that the Australian tax office started automatic processing of tax, removing maybe 30,000 jobs