signpost[asciilifeform]: my admittedly oblique commentary meant to convey that something which organizes (young, usually) men into coordinated action has been decaying for several generations, well upstream of bitcoin, WOTs, etc
signpost[asciilifeform]: by "new frontier" I mean that whichever crop of young men is going to grow into a nation anew, it's likely to happen in either 1) the wreckage of a previous empire or 2) new, open territory
signpost[asciilifeform]: not holding my breath for either, just laying out the typical historical pattern
asciilifeform: signpost: 'grow into nation anew'(tm) defo aint happening anywhere before gotterdammerung.
asciilifeform: small pockets of folx actually switching on their brains & collaborating not requires alpha centauri mission tho
asciilifeform: ( nor for alpha centaurians to land & bulldoze reich overnight )
asciilifeform: ( collaborate on what? there's plenty of on what. + use imagination. )
dulapbot: Logged on 2026-04-09 17:25:09 asciilifeform: in principle possible to make bigger holes. (e.g. asciilifeform's scheme where mined blox sometimes go to random folx, in a way that isn't easily detectable to 3rd party, so as to disincentivize parking coin at goxes -- but not published b/c not practical, btc already exists as-is and asciilifeform not interested in shitco