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You don't need flawless to empty a dishwasher, which simultaneously drives down cost and time

And projects like Tempo are a good example of private sector forcing incumbents and government to move faster

I like USDe, but it's not completely decentralized. You still have to trust whoever's trading the basis like you have to trust Tether/Circle to trade treasuries.

I think it's pretty easy to buy the coins, regardless of government intervention. Countries (ie China, Nigeria) have tried and failed to restrict access to cryptocurrencies. Whethe…

Just because badly managed local currency is required for taxes doesn't mean that most people in that country _must want_ to hold it. Plenty of trivially obvious evidence to the co…

Right now, the stability of your currency is mostly dictated by where you were born My point is stablecoins give you choice to opt out of that. The only way to opt out before was v…

I think the most disruptive thing about stablecoins is the ability to opt-into your monetary system of choice. It's hard for the average non-US person to opt-into the US financial …

A number of onchain forensics companies (Chainalysis, TRM Labs) have gotten pretty good at detecting suspicious activity

Thought experiment: how much USDT is made unredeemable every year? including through lost private keys, freezing related to sanctions, etc If you think 1% is a reasonable number, t…

adding onto this, i as a citizen of who buys dollars from the national bank are probably holding digital dollar receipt anyways, since most foreign dollar holdings are held in nost…

I'm no SBF fan by any means, and I think his actions were wrong. That being said, not knowing anything at the start about the industry you build a company in yields 0 signal about …

Because artists care about public image, which will be affected if their tickets price out economically disadvantaged fans.

Who pays fees to use stablecoins? In fact, the opposite occurs with USDC: https://cryptoslate.com/coinbase-raises-usdc-rewards-to-4/

I wish this were a thing, I really do. At the very least, I want to live in a future where we know if a piece of content was generated by a generative model or if it wasn't. The qu…

We're very happy users of SimpleHash at Omni- congrats on the launch guys!

I quite like Kotlin when it comes to a language's "flow." Pity there's not a better web server framework for it

He followed up here: https://blog.rongarret.info/2009/10/wealth-production-mechan... > Producing, storing, converting, and transporting energy is what I had in mind as the missing …

Sailings aren't usually port-to-port- they stop at multiple ports along the way, and at each port, it takes 1-3 days to load new containers and unload new containers, not to mentio…

Are you thinking of solidity.finance? https://rekt.news/deathbed-confessions-c3pr/

> And if you quit your job prior to selling (i.e had ordinary income Not a tax advisor, but I thought capital gains counts as taxable income? So someone who sells $50k worth of BTC…

Is this the only reason why we can’t have biweekly vests? This sounds like something solvable with technology, no?

Join Flexport :)

A different kind of regulation, but the FMCSA recently denied an autonomous trucking company's request to extend the amount of time their drivers could be on the road [1]. [1] http…