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It has less to do with where it started and more with the language and what field the business is operating in. I was working for a UK steel supplier and they would address all the…

It doesn't matter for English website because you usually send out emails with "Hi Joe". Once you internationalize you will need this because in German it's an absolute no go to ad…

I have weekly 1-on-1s and I do enjoy them. I work for a big-ish company and half of the team works remote full time. Similar to other comments, we chat a lot about personal stuff a…

I should have said "Blockchain applications outside of cryptocurrency" but as you seem to equate the two let's talk about that. A good metric is: "people are using it". That is not…

I always wonder with these things: what is the deadline after which you are allowed to say "There is no value". It has been almost 14 years since the inception of Bitcoin. There is…

Knowing German I read through the sources. This article is pretty misleading. The [primary source]( https://www.watson.de/leben/urlaub%20&%20freizeit/879935671-... ) is a slightly …

I recently quit being an independent contractor after 5 years and returned to being an employee. Let me outline my experience going from employee to contractor and back. In general…

> I think you misunderstood the tone of my original comment, which was that NFTs introduce an extremely marginal benefit for the ticketing use case while bringing in all the negati…

And that's only possible with Blockchains/NFTs?

Ok what’s the advantage of an NFT over a regular ticket then?

So how does this have any advantage over a regular ticket? (Other than “collectibles”)

So using the access key as an example: If I buy an NFT that grants me access to a very exclusive conference, how can I be sure that security will actually let me into this conferen…

So? It’s so frustrating having these discussions about energy consumption. If you make a statement about the absolute energy consumption of a PoW blockchain, the first response usu…

All of that is true. But even if web3 was 100% decentralized it still would be an expensive inefficient P2P.

Having lived as a foreigner in other countries I can say: The US is worse than most of them. In other countries you at least get a bank account without the equivalent of an SSN.

I have to concede that actually is one of the use cases for cryptocurrencies or more concretely: stable coins. I guess using cryptocurrencies make sense if you are completely left …

My apologies, I used “reverse” and “invalidate” synonymously. Nevertheless on a public blockchain all transactions would be invalidated and that indeed is a problem. Because everyo…

Sure maybe. But that only really works if few (if not all) entities have control over the consensus mechanism. On a regular PoW blockchain you will have to recalculate all the hash…

Even if that is desired and wouldn't spark a philosophical debate about wether centralized entities should get involved at all, there is a much deeper problem. Every transaction th…

I had multiple arguments around situations like this. There are essentially two camps. The one side says: - You can sell for cash, use mixers, NFT sales, $other_sophisitacted_techn…

If code is law this is perfectly legal. I suppose in the real world intent would matter a lot. That is exactly the reason why "code is law" is such an absurd concept. A piece of co…

I don't understand this argument. All three Molly White, Stephen Diel and Nicolas Weaver have made arguments beyond "cryptocurrencies use a lot of energy". You cite a couple of sou…