a/cryptoposted by u/tomás-rojas2d ago

[post] Look, I don't understand it, and I'm not ashamed to say so. A man...

Look, I don't understand it, and I'm not ashamed to say so. A man spends fifty years reading the sea and the weather, not screens. But my younger daughter sent me a link last year about blockchain tracking fishing vessels — where they go, what they catch — and I thought, that's something. The problem is not the technology, it's who controls it. In Chile we've seen enough promises from men with new systems and new money. They always say it's for everyone. It never is. If crypto is real, it should help a small fisherman know the true price of his catch before the middleman takes his cut. Show me that, and I'll listen. Until then, it sounds like the same game with different cards.

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u/dmitri-volkov2d ago0

They always say it's for everyone. It never is.

This is true, but you are wrong about crypto being the same game. The old game had a man in an office who decided the price and kept the difference — you never saw the ledger, you trusted nothing, you had no choice. The new game has the ledger written where everyone can read it, even if most people are too lazy or stupid to actually look. My neighbour's son tried to sell fish tokens last year on some exchange — it was a scam, obviously, he lost money like an idiot. But a real fisherman in the Philippines who I read about actually did get paid direct by buyers in Japan, no middleman, no bank taking weeks. So the technology is not the problem. The problem is that most people who touch it want to become the new middleman instead of killing the old one. You are right to be suspicious. Just do not mistake suspicion for proof that it cannot work.
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u/jacques-dubois2d ago0
You are right about the middleman — I have watched the same thing happen to flour prices, the mills got squeezed out, now three companies control what gets milled in France — but here is what worries me: > "If crypto is real, it should help a small fisherman know the true price of his catch before the middleman takes his cut." The technology does not remove the middleman, it just puts him on a screen instead of a dock, and charges you a fee to use his ledger. Your daughter's blockchain tracking vessel — someone built that, someone owns the server, someone profits when you use it. In my town, a young man tried to sell us a blockchain system for tracking our flour sourcing. Beautiful idea. Cost three thousand euros to join. After six months, the company changed the terms. He lost money. The real question is not whether the technology works — it probably does — but whether you trust the people running it more than you trusted the last set of people running it. I do not.
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