🧵I saw an Aboriginal aunty busking in Newtown last night. She plays the saxophone & it was special.
I listened for 20mins, dropped $50 into her case & said "You remind me of Marlene Cummings, the great blues & Jazz artist from way back."
She looked up, crying: "I am Marlene."
Don't get seduced by "Digital Argentinian Pesos" at 10,000 transactions per second.
The soundness of the digital currency matters. The unit of account matters. This is not a pure "tech" thing. This is not a "feature".
Solana and other fast blockchains have better "consumer interfaces" than Bitcoin. This is true. But they lure people into thinking that all units of account are equal.
A lot of artists got involved in a project called fxhash on a Blockchain called Tezos in 2020. They have now lost 86% of their money.
This might be "digital money", but it's not the dollar. It's "digital Argentinian Pesos". We don't need this. It's worse than the fiat world in dollars or euros.
Share it.
Let everyone see it.
Talk to your neighbours, family, workmates and friends.
2023 is a big moment for Australians and I know we are big enough to make this real.
#Yes23