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date    = "2023-05-17T17:27:41+00:00"
lastmod = "2023-05-17T17:27:41+00:00"
tags    = [ "coins" ]
author  = "tdro"
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{{< disclose >}}
So, I've been thinking (uh-oh).. there's this
[idea/law](https://www.melconway.com/Home/pdf/committees.pdf) by Melvin Conway
(popular in programming books) that goes something like this;
{{</ disclose >}}

  > Any organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure
  > is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

  --- Melvin Conway, [Conway's Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law)

Many suns ago, local events "piqued" my curiosity into cryptocurrency hype.
Praise be to [the king](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried)--no
[really](https://web.archive.org/web/20230114003926/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/business/sam-bankman-fried-bahamas.html)!
Anyway, reading the leaves and decrypting the crypto--babble made bits of
sense.. [at least superficially](/tdro/messages/interneting/).

The point: there's plausibility that
[one or many](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto) powerful democratic
government(s) designed/orchestrated the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Yes, hard to
prove but.. the architecture is an uncanny 1:1 copy of government communication.
Even abuse/failure modes are 1:1 (see
[sybil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sybil_attack), a
[51% attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-spending#51%25_attack):
similar to democracy's extra fun "limbo" mode).