THELOGICALINDIAN - Note from the Editor This letter is the latest in an advancing alternation of accessible belletrist to Ross Ulbrichthosted by Bitcoincom
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Dear Ross,
How’s the acclimate in NYC? It was clouded actuality in New Hampshire today. The ability went out in the baby boondocks area I live, and alike afterwards it was angry aback on, our ISP remained bottomward for hours. It put a austere ache in bearing The Daily Decrypt, a crypto advertisement I started 2.5 months ago. I mentioned it on the postcard I wrote you over the weekend. I’m not abiding if you’ve accustomed it or not yet, as I larboard it in the affectionate affliction of Tatiana Moroz, and we were in Mexico City for the Latin American Bitcoin Conference at the time.
Allow me acquaint you about a above acquaintance of mine. The angel smoked cannabis about every day — if she could, every hour! “Pride and joy” ability be the best way to call her animosity against the acid plant. I never saw her beam so broadly — or relax so absolutely — as back she’d aloof partaken.
It was appealing beautiful and funny, actually. While I don’t accept a huge affection for cannabis myself, it fabricated my activity bigger in that the bulb provided me with a blessed roommate. She was alike cleaner and did added abode affairs afterwards smoking! So the aroma was able-bodied account it.
There was alone one time in our abode back New Weed Day wasn’t joyous, and that was during the absolute cannabis delivery. It was close and uncomfortable. Buyer and agent surreptitiously but always glanced out our windows to analysis for police. New Weed Day was decidedly abject already back the agent noticed a cop car anchored in advanced of our house. The car and its addressee remained there for minutes, which acquainted like hours. Everyone in the allowance froze as they watched to see what the abeyant predator would do.
The cop left, eventually. But not afore ruining New Weed Day.
It was some time afterwards this adventure that my acquaintance told me about “the canicule of Silk Road.”
“You bought from Silk Road?” I gaped. I’d never met anyone who’d acclimated it — or at least, I’d never had anyone booty the time to acquaint me they’d acclimated it.
“Oh, sure,” she responded, animated advanced at the memory. “It was great. Packages delivered appropriate to your mailbox. You absolved outside, safe in your own advanced yard, and got the mail. That was it.
She went on to acquaint me about Silk Road’s acceptability ratings. How she could consistently feel almost assured that she was accepting the best affection for the best price. That there would be absolute recourse of reputational accident if any sellers were absurd abundant to address bad product.
“It was appealing great,” she assuredly trailed off, visibly anxious for the canicule of mailbox deliveries. I acquainted a baby billow of acrimony on her behalf. Acrimony that my stoner acquaintance could no best feel safe purchasing her admired thing. Acrimony that her cannabis agent would accept to accumulate advancing over, authoritative New Weed Day afflictive by again attractive out our window. I acquainted sad that the actuality which fabricated my acquaintance smile so advanced and ablution our dishes so appropriately was chancy to acquire.
But already you apperceive something, you can’t un-know it. She had accepted a freer bazaar in plants, and she wasn’t about to balloon that aftertaste of abandon anytime soon. And that’s acknowledgment to you, Ross.
A risk-taker, by definition. The alone affectionate of being who anytime absolutely moves this apple forward. Who delivers appurtenances and services admired abundant that added bodies are accommodating to accord up their abundance in exchange.
I don’t decidedly apperceive what to say about you actuality in a cage, Ross, added than to accommodate you with the blackest of amusement in my aplomb that you’re in acceptable company. I don’t apperceive how abounding added cagings, assaults, deaths, and genocides will action afore decentralized technologies save altruism from its baby but crazily agitated streak.
But I do anticipate it will happen.
I’m added assertive that centralized abandon is absolutely added able than disparate individuals, but that decentralized networks of those aforementioned individuals can and will be added able than the centralized violence. I’m assertive that alone technologies of the “swarm” — like cryptocurrency — can extinguish the allurement of the choir of the absolutely agitated few. And if this happens, you will go bottomward in every history book that affairs as a above amateur in the conservancy of our swarm.
Have you heard of a book alleged Biocentrism: How Life Creates the Universe? It’s alarming my mind. Let me apperceive if you’d like a copy.
Sincerely,
Amanda B. Johnson
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