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Yes but this clients, not nodes. So this actor does not control a large share of the network, they just use a large share of the network.

Careful, there is someone whose name I shall not mention who is suing people claiming he is Satoshi and has copyright over the Whitepaper. He even got it banned from Bitcoin.org in…

This gives you a good overview of what web3 is https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

Sounds like you're getting all the benefits of a regular apple watch with cellular, no need for the Ultra

Something that always trips me up about PoS is how a system that determines the transactional chronology (i.e. sequence of valid blocks) that uses, as a weighted input, the current…

food waste generates 60x more emissions than Bitcoin, yet nobody is freaking out about that, which makes me think people are just riding the ESG bandwagon

Don't forget about the Lightning Network

Where exactly? I want to show my daughter some and there aren't any in my state.

I don't understand why light pollution gets so little attention in the US.

Yes, especially since Moxi cashed out and bought a big mansion after they released their spy-coin cryptocurrency.

I think this is a safe assumption. Guilty until proven innocent, by making your code open source.

Hmmm, that does seem somewhat suspect.

That constraint is perfectly reasonable and rational, not a thumbsuck.

Yeah, major wtf by this author. Clearly didn't do their homework.

Yeah, at my company we spent a ton of R&D time adding first class git support in conjunction with drag and drop UI, WITHOUT introducing a DSL. Non-trivial problem but it can be don…

check out helium.com

Excellent straw-manning 10/10

We use Discourse's hosted solution and it's effectively zero maintenance

what you said slack doesn't have categories and tags and some search terms in slack bring up too many results without context to be useful

This is an example of why I moved off Gmail to ProtonMail

I agree that the title of this paper is misleading. I'm seeing more and more studies lately that try to extrapolate results conducted in noisy environments (microsft) to even noisi…

I've been watching this situation from 50K feet and I think the reason they built their own wallet is for the ability, for merchants, to cash out any bitcoin payment in USD instead…

Fraud vs incompetence is an important dimension here. I think a lot of the time people are just incompetent. In fact I assume that > 80% of scientific papers in fields with high le…