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Monero
stinky linkies can end it all

>>11688469
Critique (autocritique?) of neoliberalism seems like small fish compared to the big picture. Imagine a worldwide distributed computer system that no one can shut down and anyone can use (psuedoanonymously, might I add). It is able to run the same processes as any other computer in a wholly decentralized fashion. It also has no central points of attack, as the blockchain is stored on every single node in the network (I can't help but imagine the jeweled net of Indra) -- this also prevents tampering; mining can properly be thought of as auditing. Currently the price is too high to use for computing in any practical sense (I think Ethereum is about a million times less cost efficient than traditional cloud computing, AWS and the like), but I certainly wouldn't be betting against Moore's law here. There are even pipedreams of decentralizing networking infrastructure in a similar fashion (think internet sans internet providers (see the madman Synth behind Skycoin for some real schizo takes on this)). Anon was prescient as usual by calling it "Copernican".