THELOGICALINDIAN - So its Burning Man time afresh and this year one of the art installations featured some arresting bitcoin logos Wellyou werent assured concrete bitcoins were you Theyre aloof to affect nocoiners
For anyone who doesn’t know, Burning Man is a annual accident in the arid and a all-around cultural movement.
At least, that’s the assorted best acknowledgment you accept to accord afore they let you buy tickets. The amiss answers: a music festival, a weeklong rave, and a curated bartering experience, are all aloof there to analysis how ‘Burning Man’ you absolutely are.
Not anybody buys into this description, however:
To be fair, the ‘event’ is based on some blue-blooded principles. Ten of them. Kind of like a ten commandments for the flower-power generation, but imposed on a agglomeration of advantaged Gen-X’ers.
The aboriginal of these is abolitionist inclusion, and you’d accept to be appealing socially and culturally inept to accede this a bad thing. Or a Trump/Brexit/’insert far-right European nationalist affair here’ voter. However it has been appropriate that Burning Man may allocution the talk, but no best walks the walk.
You can leave your bill (both authorization and crypto) at home because there’s none of that commercialist abuse at Burning Man. In fact, the alone things that you can buy are ice and coffee… and one would imagine: algid coffee.
Instead, the accident promotes a ‘gifting’ culture, audible from a bartering culture, as you charge apprehend no barter of your gifting. Perhaps you could booty forth some bitcoin and ‘gift’ it to others to advance the acceptable word. Although I’d brainstorm best of the attendees would already be able-bodied acquainted of the actuality of cryptocurrency, consisting of a abundant abounding silicon valleys billionaires.
I assumption it’s accessible to be anti-capitalist back bodies accept paid up to $1,200 anniversary for a ticket.
So what absolutely was bitcoin accomplishing at Burning Man? In some ways, it would assume to be a absolute match: ability to the people; abuse big finance, etc.
Indeed, aback in 2014 Burning Man organizers were blessed to accept donations in bitcoin. Sadly today, admitting they still ask for donations, the advantage to accord bitcoin is no best available.
So it seems that the bitcoin of today is additionally alone by these faux-hippies as a apparatus of capitalism.
I mean, let’s face it, these are hardly actual alarming pieces of ‘art’, and as parasols, they are all but useless. Some accept appropriate that this is satirical, but I anticipate that gives it too abundant credit.
Final Verdict: Trolling!
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