[AndrewKemendo]

when you want to build an interparty database-driven application, and cannot find a suitable place to put the database, because of business concerns or regulation

Technology can't solve this problem.

If multiple entities need to coordinate inside a mutually used product don't trust each other, then the problem is structural and needs to be solved with interpersonal, regulatory or political action.

[marssaxman]

Annnnd... if you have a structural problem which cannot be corrected via interpersonal, regulatory, or political action, then what do you do?

[AndrewKemendo]

Quit and start over, or move. That's why people migrate between countries or quit jobs.

[marssaxman]

Ah, if only it were that simple.

[AndrewKemendo]

No need to be glib. The kinds of situations that are being discussed as the best for blockchain are literally the most intractable - hence why I said it was not a technology solution.

If you're in a situation where cryptocurrency is the best solution for currency, then you're probably in a lawless wasteland with abjectly destructive governance systems.

Seems like in that circumstance moving is the right answer.

[marssaxman]

I'm not being glib, I'm observing that the global system of passports and visa controls makes "moving" nearly impossible. I nearly pulled it off just over twenty years ago, but I failed, and now I'm permanently stuck back "home". Cryptocurrencies won't help, they're just another way to do capitalism.