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(Transfer)Wise arbitrarily stopped working for Venezuela over sanctions that don't even apply to the entirety of the country, right before I was going to accept a pretty well paid …

You can have different, non-conflicting goals. Specific projects bring something in particular to the table. Permission-less transactions on an immutable ledger is the very least m…

As much as Roger Waters lost all my respect back then when he sided with Maduro during the Venezuelan protests, giving the middle finger to Zuckerberg is something I wholeheartedly…

>PoW undermines our attempts to fight climate change, there's tons of examples of fossil fuel power plants being used for the sole purpose of running "crypto" "currencies". No. The…

> In some ways, the whole debate could be more civil if officers faces and voices were blurred. Police have no expectation of privacy when performing their official duties, at leas…

> The main problems are 1) that catastrophic events can and will happen in the future. That's why nobody wants to live next to a nuclear power plant. The chances for such events ar…

> This is good for the planet because mountains of Xinjiang coal are no longer being burned to achieve literally nothing. By the same token I could say all the power (and pollution…

Conspiracy nuts and other unsavory members from fringe communities do make for odd bedfellows when one is being actively censored, thus why I am loathe to promote Bitchute et al. B…

/r/Buttcoin has been about as bad smelling their own farts over the years as the Bitcoin subreddit has. The occasional blog post by long-time critics (Gerard et al) is the only thi…

The only reason this is news-worthy is because it's tied to the current hot button issue (cryptocurrency). Scams like these happen all the time during bull markets and the crypto i…

"Waste" is value judgement. For me, it's securing a network of decentralized transactions, so that power isn't wasted. Given my distaste for adtech and certain governments, I'd qua…

Sometimes crypto investors do their investing through means that can be several times detached from the nitty and gritty (e.g. would buying COIN or MSTR stock be considered crypto …

I've had a friend take his own life over a false rape accusation so it forever changed the way I see such things. I wish most people didn't have to go through something like that t…

It exists, and it very much works [0] but it has yet to reach the massive levels of adoption people would have expected by now. Simple as that. [0] https://1ml.com/

Gold is very inert, yes, but it still gets beaten by copper when it comes to conductivity [0] which is why conductors are rarely ever made out of gold instead of merely gold-plated…

Yes, actually, people overestimate the reversibility of wire transfers. And before cryptocurrency, there were still shady money services such as Liberty Reserve or Perfect Money wi…

Then you hire the services of brokers that don't have the same compunctions about transacting in crypto. And even if you were to magically erase all cryptocurrency from the earth, …

I wonder why such an aggressive thermal cutoff too, 50C ain't that hot even for consumer-grade electronics. Is it related to all that heat reducing SNR to unacceptable levels? If s…

It may be a libertarian rag, but the article is just about what it says on the title: thermal shutdown hitting Starlink users. In fact, I had tried to submit an article coming from…

If you believe banning cryptocurrencies will suddenly stop ransomware, then I have a bridge to sell you.

I've mostly been writing backend code which pretty much works just the same whether deployed on Windows and Linux, that's interoperability by default. With Java the issues came fro…

Here's hoping .NET can some day shake off its Windows exclusivity stigma, as I've been writing pretty interoperable C# code for the past 3-4 years or so, and it's been a joy. Night…

If I understand things correctly, it didn't start out with such insane yields- that merely happened once it lost its peg. Even with my skepticism when it comes to stablecoins in ge…