Mark Pesce on Nostr: Democracy is consultative, and therefore slow. That's not a side-effect. That's the ...
Democracy is consultative, and therefore slow.
That's not a side-effect. That's the actual essence of the thing itself.
Speed is intrinsically anti-democratic.
You can be fast, or you can be free. But you can't be both.
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