Keywords/phrases: National cryptocurrencies/ blockchains, limited to a national territory, are contradictions of the system. Freedom of speech does not mean you can force people to listen; when you speak, sometimes what you say is boring. You don’t get a guarantee of an audience, you only have the right to say something. If governments want to create national blockchains, they are engaging in boring speech that ignores the realities of borderless, open alternative that exists. If you take this technology and try to wrap it in restrictions, it is not open-innovation, open-access, censorship-resistant, or neutral — it is business as usual. We already have digital money like that; over 92% of all money in circulation is digital and stored in someone else’s database.
Watch the full talk! https://youtu.be/3NqDNetEqmI
This is part of a talk which took place on October 26th 2016 at the Blockchain Meetup in Zürich, Switzerland: https://www.meetup.com/Zurich-Blockchain-Meetup/events/233058629/
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