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I want to start off with saying I generally enjoy this site. It’s a great place to find links to news, blogs, and other interesting technology-centric websites. To that end, and I …

>In addition, the dollar is guaranteed to be diluted, meanwhile for Bitcoin, there's no such certainty. People having to HODL tell themselves whatever they need to to feel confiden…

Which certainly reinforces the notion that Bitcoin is not a good "hedge" that is often claimed by bitcoin maxis. Digital gold my butt.

Sure. But one thing cryptocurrency is terrible at is requiring that you do your own op-sec. Maybe you're good at that sort of thing, but because of the inherent lack of controls to…

Agreed. I think this is simply cashing in on the cryptocurrency craze while it's still fashionable. Then again, Moxie Marlinspike was never the most transparent fellow I've seen. A…

Does everything have to be an exploitative grift though? With reddit also announcing cryprocurrency based karma, I'm starting to think that this is all an effort to cash out on wha…

Dude this made my day. Thanks! xD

I'd argue the WWW was instantly useful, even during its halcyon days. IPFS on the other hand is a horrible "jack of all trades" that has mediocre performance even in the best of ti…

@dang runs a great site here. I will admit, I haven't always been the most level headed commenter all the time, but I've been trying to improve where I can, and I think what he say…

What do you mean? Of course it is. How else has ransomware been able to thrive as of late? The sooner governments abolish fiat to cryptocurrency exchanges and make such transaction…

Nice subtle humble brag.

Who cares what Satoshi said back then. What Bitcoin has become now is a complete sham with early adopters stoking the flames of FOMO to get rich quick at the expense of everyone el…

At least with Bitcoin, the ledger is open for all to see. The privacy angle is specious at best.

Are we going to forget the exorbitant network and miner fees of Bitcoin as well?

Apparently? There is no real proof this has brought mostly normal people in Nigeria out of poverty, at least at large enough numbers to be believed. This is just some yarn spun up …

Honestly, I vastly prefer OpenPOWER over ARM from a consistency in implementation perspective. Not to mention, at least with POWER9, no mandatory binary blobs or opaque management …

I might be interested. Definitely consider posting some of this on eBay and I'd be happy to give it a look. :)

Fun fact: Ari Weinstein, the fellow mentioned in the article, is the guy behind the Shortcuts app baked into iOS (formerly known as Workflow - which I believe acquired Y Combinator…

I'm still not sure I agree that Satoshi did nothing wrong, per se. But I really appreciate what you're saying, as this does afford some separation of the art (Bitcoin and Co.) from…

They just want someone down the line to buy in to keep the grift going, honestly.

Fair enough. My suspicions could be bunk and this GS employee really just made a leap of faith Hail Mary pass and won this way.

I wish you well and all the best, nly. I hope we get out of this relatively unscathed.

Perhaps... but cryptocurrency makes this far more blatant and obvious. It really is sold as some kind of pipe-dream and a miracle financial instrument. Yet tell that to those who l…

>>I look at ransomware as a positive, finally a forcing function for companies to take security seriously. Energy, it's pushing us towards greener energy sources and there are less…