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If it was just a backup against failing/weak institutions it would be relavively benign, but the problem is that it incentivises machiavellian types to undermine society and nation…

> "It has always puzzled me a little bit that shooting is a core mechanic in a majority of video games. Does this serve any purpose? My personal theory is that violent video games …

Could be a good use for all the AI datacentres when the bubble bursts.

Given his past it is easy to imagine his keys got misplaced while on the run or met with some kind of "unfortunate accident".

In reference to the article's question: "could we turn Community Notes itself into something that's more like an economist algorithm?" My answer would be: no, as soon as you add an…

The article fails to point out that cryptocurrency has already effectively been banned (or at least delegitimised) in other major economies like China and India, so the US is in so…

The irony is that Bitcoin was created in direct response to the perceived shortcomings of the traditional financial system (see the message in the genesis block), but since then th…

Note that this is the same Worldcoin that has been going round poor countries scanning people's eyeballs with an orb in exchange for some shady cryptocurrency with the primary obje…

Thirteen years is a very long time in technology. The "problem" with HN is that many of us have been around since the start of cryptocurrency, and have a very deep rather than supe…

Yes, casinos are pretty well regulated in most countries, which is why I wrote " At best they [cryptocurrency coins and tokens] are like casino tokens". Although casinos don't have…

Looking for a cryptographic solution to this is certainly missing the point - it presupposes cryptocurrency coins and tokens are assets in the traditional sense, which they are not…

If you're planning on front-running any issues, I doubt you'd put articles like that (which publicly exhibit an almost pathological lack of self-awareness) on your website.

There are so many red flags in that article, and that article is coming from Sequoia Capital itself. I can't understand how anyone would have invested anything at all in FTX, let a…

This sort of thing is as old as crypto itself - see e.g. "How to steal Bitcoins" with some excellent HN comments (including from one of the thieves referenced in the original artic…

> I remember reading in the last year about one of the crypto companies that hired an anonymous employee. Maybe "Sifu" of DeFi protocol Wonderland[0], or "UmbralUpsilon" of Indexed…

Also, how do you trust anonymous employees not to steal? Pretty extreme example, but just look at the cryptocurrency space which is filled with stories of theft by anonymous founde…

The problem is that any "legitimate" use case is negated many times over by all the illegitimate ones. It would be like saying let's legitimise terrorism because sometimes the terr…

Transaction irreversability is the whole point of the "peer to peer electronic cash system": "Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions…

Or (iii) try to set up a new society elsewhere, e.g. Cryptoland[0], the Crypto-Currency Seastead[1], Blockchain City[2], Bitcoin city[3], etc. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

The crypto ethos is antithetical to that of non-commercial content creators - putting a crypto wallet address on a website is like putting a big banner saying "I'm helping legitimi…

If these scams and frauds are being fueled and legitimised by the venture capitalists, and the venture capitalists are US regulated, shouldn't the regulators be going after the ven…