"I’m going to put the entire U.S. budget on blockchain so that any American — every American can look at every budget item in the entire budget anytime they want 24 hours a day. [...] We’re gonna have 300 million eyeballs on our budget, and if somebody is spending $16,000 for a toilet seat, everybody’s gonna know about it."

I edited the quote for clarity to be just him speaking.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And he wants to do this on the blockchain because???

Like I get he wants to grift all the little techbro piggies, but at least put some effort into making it seem like you are solving an unsolvable problem using technojargon.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know, @ReadFanon@hexbear.net mentioned RFK Jr. was gonna get a JFK award and I was going to say most people in government agencies are too stupid/too old to know how modern tech works and won't suss it out until it's too late, but him spelling it out so specifically is definitely going to get him that award.

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

You don't need a blockchain for this, you need open accounting. Someone could just tell the blockchain they spent 16k on "fixtures for the Whitehouse".

Oh also what happens when someone makes a mistake?

Crypto bros are deeply unserious.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Lol the US is lucky if it has 100 non political, non contractor eyes on the budget. And then what? What are they gonna do when they see outrageous spending on bullshit? They’re gonna tweet about it and vote for their politician again anyway