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What’s controversial is that EU rules force censorship.

I'd recommend Obscura because it uses Wireguard over QUIC and it pretty good at avoiding these blocks. It's also open source.

Would you agree it’s strictly better than a single provider?

There is no perfect solution, but I would argue that a blind relay is very clearly strictly better than the alternative.

Actually the top talent wants to work at a company that regularly fires the bottom performers

>Satoshi ninja-mined in the beginning for themselves completely and provably false

> This comment is peculiar - among technologists, for years the common refrain I’ve heard is “Bitcoin makes no sense but the underlying block chain ideas are very useful”. That's b…

one reason it's better money than Gold, there are no industrial supply/demand dynamics impacting its price. It's pure monetary premium

Network effect, first-mover advantage, and fair launch that did not pre-mine coins for insiders. It's the only "pure" one because it was first and honest.

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stablecoins are useful but you don't really need a blockchain. you just need enough of a rube-goldberg machine to claim it's "decentralized". The most popular "blockchain" for stab…

There is a general purpose ledger for business. It's called a SQL database

If tokenization requires a trusted party to issue the tokens (think stocks) then no blockchain is needed

"We do have a lot of interest in blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrencies. We believe its application to a number of other uses besides crypto will make capital markets m…

Postgres 17 tremendously improves vacuum performance

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> but I'm really confused as to why they always choose the most random obscure bank. Why not partner with a major bank. Because major banks won't support startups looking to compet…

This is why I love Phoenix/Elixir. You get all of this by default for free.

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Neither Uber nor Wework were financial institutions with consumer deposits they were funneling away to a slush fund.