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Like most other readers here, my initial reaction is "Thanks, I hate it." I especially hate the assertion that they're increasing customization when in reality they've steadily bee…

> I just checked a half dozen exchanges-- none call it "Bitcoin Cash" in their interfaces Which exchanges did you check? I just checked some myself, and Coinbase, Kraken, Binance, …

Open source projects often fork. To take one such example, years ago X.org forked from XFree86. Both projects considered themselves implementations of the X Window System. Can you …

Gold has had a widely agreed upon definition for thousands of years. Bitcoin is a ~decade old open source project with a clearly established philosophical divide between small-bloc…

> a knock-off-name like "Bitcoin Cash" "Knock-off" is a curious word choice. Are you under the impression that someone owns the term "Bitcoin"?

I'm curious why you chose to use the term "bcash" to refer to BCH. No exchanges or mainstream projects use that term to refer to BCH. As far as I'm aware it's primarily used as a p…

And likewise, BTC fees are also at a local maximum[1]. Unfortunately, nothing has been done to actually scale the BTC blockchain since the last bull run. Onchain transactional capa…

Also see https://superuser.com/questions/540851/go-back-to-not-select... for details on how to disable the clickSelectsAll behavior. This issue is frankly far more important than t…

My interpretation is they're saying that Chromium's address bar code is complex deeply integrated with many other parts of the code-base (including many parts that interact with Go…

All I did was post a picture which provides direct evidence of the Tiananmen Square massacre. A government killing thousands of people absolutely has a bearing on reality, and noth…

This does a a good job at showing the huge number of people protesting in Hong Kong: https://gfycat.com/relievedcornychrysomelid-timelapse

Here's some direct evidence of the atrocity that is the Tiananmen Square massacre: https://i.imgur.com/E3D9BuH.jpg . I'm sure you've seen the infamous "tank man" picture, which pro…

Ulbricht never presented a defense for the murder-for-hire charge because the charge was dropped and never went to trial. Ulbricht has been sentenced to double-life in prison for a…

Looking at libgcrypt's patch [1], it looks like the mitigation technique they're using is to blind the private key and message hash with a random number before performing point add…

These are the same tired arguments that have been brought many times before in the previous few years. What's the point of an article like this that contributes nothing to the disc…

> They actively censored and silenced people who were complaining. Forget the issues with design. The active censorship by both Reddit admins and power-hungry moderators is the rea…

Yep, this is exactly the point economist Julian Simon made in his essay, "Can the Supply of Natural Resources - Especially Energy - Really Be Infinite? Yes!" [1] This exert from th…

> LN tx's are actually bitcoin tx's. This is an oversimplification. LN transactions have much different properties than regular bitcoin transactions. Most notably, LN transactions …

> Bitcoin Cash is fast and as low fees but if it manages to scale to something like a Visa network number of transactions, it will be centralized This just isn't true. Today's comm…

The exact order of trustworthiness for the Big Five is irrelevant, because it rounds down to zero for all of them. They all have an NSA backdoor through PRISM - this trumps all oth…

As far as I'm aware, a gun can't shoot a projectile into orbit - no matter how high it shoots a ballistic, the ballistic will eventually come back to earth (unless it gets captured…

Soylent hasn't had any quality struggles in the past 6 months that I'm aware of. 12-18 months ago they had multiple issues: sporadic mold under the caps, some people severely aller…

I don't understand why they don't just create an API that allows extensions to modify userChrome.css. It seems like this would solve a lot of the complaints people have about the n…

> good to see justice served I believe his participation in fraud should have repercussions, but I hardly feel like caging him up for 7 years is "justice". I'm not saying I know wh…

> The talk really put Karpeles in a slightly better light. I disagree wholeheartedly. Karpeles bought an insolvent exchange, and specifically chose not to invest the money necessar…