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  • Bitcoin: An Endless Scam

    Bitcoin: An Endless Scam

    Bitcoin: An Endless Scam
    Web3 & Cypherpunks

    Bitcoin: An Endless Scam

    Previously I wrote a long article on Bitcoin, but I still did not make clear the two most crucial questions: first, the question people on the internet love to argue about most—whether Bitcoin is really a scam; second, the truly important question: what exactly is the revolution brought about by Bitcoin? The previous article in fact also touched on these two questions, but because it was so long, they may have been obscured, so let me talk about them separately here. First, let us discuss this question, which in fact is not even worth refuting: is Bitcoin a scam? Many people like to compare Bitcoin with the notorious tulip bubble,…

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  • Bitcoin: The Nature of Money

    Bitcoin: The Nature of Money

    Bitcoin: The Nature of Money
    Web3 & Bitcoin

    Bitcoin: The Nature of Money

    Recently Bitcoin has risen and fallen wildly, and a great deal of discussion has sprung up as well. Of course there are those who strongly support it and those who predict its doom; in any case, this peculiar electronic currency has officially entered public view. In fact, I heard about this thing a few years ago, and at the time I also thought about joining the ranks of the “miners.” Unfortunately I was still too wary of trouble to pursue it in depth. More crucially, my insights in media philosophy were not yet mature enough then, so I failed to seize the opportunity. And these past few days, gritting my…

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  • Contempt and Locality

    Culture & Public Commentary

    Contempt and Locality

    This article had actually been ready to write half a year ago, or even earlier. It was during the Olympics, and I wrote a few articles in the form of “…and …”, including two bad-stub pieces; I only wrote down the title “Contempt and Locality” and never went on. Now, although I’d like to change it to a more provocative title—say, “Why Do We Contempt Migrant Workers?”—after thinking it over, I still decided not to go in for clickbait. At first I wanted to start from international contempt in the Olympics (for example, how Chinese people look at Koreans and Japanese). Recently, when I thought of rewriting it, I tried…

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  • In Praise of “Rumors”

    Culture & Public Commentary

    In Praise of “Rumors”

    Recently the word “rumor” has once again become a hot topic, and a full-scale “war” against “rumors” is plainly about to break out. At a time like this, it is all the more necessary to reflect on what “rumor” really means. On Weibo, I saw Sun Haifeng repost Deng Wenchu’s “Nine Theses on Rumor,” written several years ago, and applauded it enthusiastically (you can find it among some of the earliest posts on his blog, though it seems a few of the theses have been harmonized?). Later I read Kapferer’s Rumor: The World’s Oldest Media, and found it quite rewarding as well. So let me offer a few casual remarks…

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  • A Few Words on the “Salt Rumor”

    Culture & Public Commentary

    A Few Words on the “Salt Rumor”

    After the earthquake, all kinds of rumors, big and small, were flying everywhere. The existence of the internet seems to have greatly strengthened the spread of rumors. Of course, we can also use the internet to conveniently search for more information and thereby dispel some shallow rumors, but most people probably do not use the internet that way. Compared with BBS forums and search engines, today’s SNS and microblogs seem more conducive to the spread of rumors, because BBS forums and search engines require a certain kind of active participation. Although posts on BBS forums can be reposted without restraint, browsing a BBS is after all an active act, and…

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  • What Is Democracy? Livelihood? Equality? Democracy Is Article 35 of the Constitution

    Culture & Public Commentary

    What Is Democracy? Livelihood? Equality? Democracy Is Article 35 of the Constitution

    This article had been planned before winter vacation, but in a moment of inattention it has dragged on until now. Let me finish a section first:   I previously posted a status update, and although it seemed to get stuck on follow5 for quite a while, it finally synced successfully: “In my view, democracy is neither universal suffrage nor some kind of equality. Democracy is Article 35 of the Constitution. Freedom of speech and freedom of association. That is the core of democracy. Electoral systems and distributive systems are separate issues. Democracy is a matter of power, not of rights.” There were a few replies on the school intranet, but…

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  • Contracts and Spells in Love

    Contracts and Spells in Love
    Life & Notes

    Contracts and Spells in Love

    This article is meant to lay out some matters. Since bringing these things up still leaves me with a thousand tangled threads, this essay has no fixed theme; I’ll write as far as I get. As for my own romantic experiences, I already gave some account of them in some earlier articles, but clearly that was not enough, and I also did not devote a special treatment to them in the “Talking Love — Speaking of Love” folder, which makes it seem insufficiently sincere. So here I’ll write a dedicated piece to gather my thoughts. When I was a sophomore, I had a little, short-lived romance, and afterward I lay…

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  • An Explanation of the Progress of My Pursuit of mm

    Life & Notes

    An Explanation of the Progress of My Pursuit of mm

    In one sentence: there has been no progress. On the Progress of My Search for a Girlfriend In one sentence: there has been no progress. There are very few applicants, but there are indeed several—at least three, in fact—mostly second-year master’s students. It seems second year is a delicate period… The applicants before this were basically all frightened away. In the previous article I already said that I merely adopt a very ordinary cool indifference; I would never pretend to be anything in order to scare people off. On the contrary, the so-called methods of frightening people amount to nothing more than laying bare my true characteristics. Judging from previous…

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  • A Set of Questions About Falling in Love

    Life & Notes

    A Set of Questions About Falling in Love

    A Set of Questions About Dating   I saw this set of questions on Mist’s campus page (though he likes to change his name; still, I’ll allow myself to address him this way) (http://blog.xiaonei.com/GetEntry.do?id=341170940&owner=5675), and he didn’t go on to tag anyone else. But looking at these kinds of questions, I thought they might be somewhat helpful in introducing my views on love, so I took the initiative and asked him to tag me~ After all, if I always use my own language and perspective to explain my views on love and such, the things I focus on may be completely at cross purposes with what ordinary people care about….

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  • An Essay on Freedom of Speech

    Culture & Public Commentary

    An Essay on Freedom of Speech

    “Freedom of thought” is reflected at the social level as “freedom of speech,” and “freedom of speech” at the legal level appears as the principle that one can never be “punished for what one says.” It is necessary to distinguish “punished for what one says” from crimes committed by means of speech, such as incitement, defamation, insult, agitation, deception, and so on. There are countless offenses carried out through speech, and these convictions are not necessarily unreasonable. But one must always remain clear-headed in distinguishing this: none of these charges can be “punished for what one says”; the basis for conviction can never be the speech alone, but must rest…

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