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    In “Infinity War”, Marvel Comics super-villain Thanos kills off half the world’s population. Would this fix the planet?

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    So, I’ve been thinking (uh-oh).. there’s this idea/law by Melvin Conway (popular in programming books) that goes something like this;

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

    Many suns ago, local events “piqued” my curiosity into cryptocurrency hype. Praise be to the king–no really! Anyway, reading the leaves and decrypting the crypto–babble made bits of sense… at least superficially.

    The point: there’s plausibility that one or many 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, a 51% attack: similar to democracy’s extra fun “limbo” mode).

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    I’d have never peeked so deeply into cryptocurrency lore..

    ..if it wasn’t for this guy visiting my country. I am now “enlightened”. Spoiler: Blockchain protocols computationally formalize/describe a government’s high power restraints within democracy. In civics (social studies), democracy is decentralized power (no/many kings) and therefore implicitly inefficient.

    Democratic governments (in perfect world) communicate/act/bank;

    1. In public (freedom of information)
    2. With immutability (no deleting things)
    3. With consensus (majority vote)
    4. With inefficiency (to weaken bad actors)

    Citizens and other low power (centralized) entities can do some of the above (federation), but mostly (wisely) communicate/act/bank;

    1. In private (freedom of association)
    2. With mutability (to protect privacy)
    3. Without consensus (freedom of expression)
    4. With efficiency (to build–up fast actors)

    Individually, (5-8 > 1-4) no? But (1-4 > 5-8) in dictatorships (5-8)? Blockchain governments for maximal oversight? Not happening :)

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    This document deprecates the use of any “int” domain names that were designated for infrastructure purposes by the IETF, and it identifies

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    This document specifies a certificate extension for including logotypes in public key certificates and attribute certificates. This

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