Comment by chgs

2 months ago

Amazes me how naive people are about this whole billionaire worship stuff.

I am definitely naive about the good faith of a lot of market participants.

But my motivations for applying have never been about "worshipping billionaires". If you have read anything I've ever written, I criticize concentrations of power, especially in the hands of billionaires, including Elon.

I am not even a fan of MAGA Republicans. However, I do think it would be great to make government more efficient. And my whole pitch was: we need to start using public blockchains for transparency, extending the legacy of Obama's data.gov which helped with transparency. By gradually moving budgets and payouts to blockchains and smart contracts, it would be much harder to sustain off-the-books excess and ineffiencies.

In fact, anyone who is for blockchain is for decentralization, not so much in favor of billionaire owners of centralized platforms. But anyway I digress, I don't think "blockchain" will find many fans on HN as it is...

  • But, will blockchain fix the laziness and nepotism within the government? (along with myriads of other "fails")