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Privacy isn't the same thing as secrecy. I know what you're doing in the bathroom, but you still close the door.

It didn't.

The whole point of crypto is that it's not regulated. As soon as the regulators take real action on crypto, the entire promise of crypto will vanish in a puff of smoke. I'm not say…

"Ponzi scheme" has become completely divorced from its original meaning. It's supposed to refer to a specific type of scam where you pay "investors" using the money you received fr…

This was my main lesson. I lost some money on Terra/Luna - thankfully much less than $5k, but still enough to sting. Looking back, I can see that I really had no idea what I was ge…

> Jack Dorsey just launched “Web5”, a buzzwordy project focused on decentralized identity Woah, hold on, I thought we were still on "Web3"? Actually I'm not convinced that we've ev…

> Your ability to obtain credit is based on the past several years of income, with a penalty for instances over the past ~7 years in which you didn't pay back debts. Okay, and usin…

Is he wrong? What is "Web3", except a trendy marketing term to make the old seem like it's new? All I hear about Web3 is that it's the future, it's the next big thing, it's blowing…

I think the important question is: why would we need to?

> Technically, web3 is merely authentication with a public key. I thought "web3" meant "something, something, blockchain"?

What's the potential of web3, and how does it solve the problems of web2?

Eh, I have a 90 minute commute and I don't mind because I go by train. Three hours a day to read! I love it. Granted I wfh 2/3 days a week; if I had this commute every day I'd prob…

I don't play videogames and know very little about crypto mining, but isn't the mining being done on specialised hardware these days and not GPUs? Are GPUs still being wasted on cr…

"Web3" is just a new label to make it seem like the same old bullshit is somehow novel and revolutionary. First "blockchain" was the future, it was the next big thing, it was a rev…

No

Why would web3 be capable of anything else? Satoshi invented the blockchain to solve one specific problem: creating a decentralised currency. It was never supposed to be some kind …

What do you think about when it comes it Web3, crypto and DeFi?

I'm pretty sure "Web3" is just a term that crypto-enthusiasts have invented to mask the fact that crypto has completely failed to live up to any of its promises. No-one can tell me…

Every now and then I'll be shopping and the security device by the door will beep as I'm walking out, even though I haven't stolen anything. I always just assume there's been a mis…

An aside, but is it a standard thing to write # to mean "pound" when you're talking about pounds as a unit of weight? Like as opposed to "800lb"? I knew what you meant, it's just I…

What's wrong with Ruby version managers?

I think what GP is saying is that even with large, multi-million margins in the popular vote, the result can still be "close" because many of those votes count for nothing in the e…

This. When I lived in London I never got in my car except to make journeys out of London. Now that I live in a village (and not a particularly remote one; London is less than an ho…