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PayPal deleted my account in 2017 for having a relationship with Bitcoin-associated banks. Fuck you, that was war.

Ah yes, the fight you phase.

Why stop using them now? If they are the correct mark, use them.

Poelstra probably has a lot to say on the subject — but I think the natural order is the simpler and more "divine" variant.

This sounds so exploitable I almost want to enter the job market again.

Astroturf on HN. Never thought I'd see the day.

Just start using HTTP 402 and JSON payloads. We can just converge on whatever ends up common; for me, there is already a monetary standard for the Internet. I participated in these…

Earlier versions of Caddy were just a single binary that accepted signals to reload; the newer versions add a bunch of process management stuff that just got in the way of our exis…

I wasted many hours in my pre-teen years converting documents from Works to Word and back again. Made me the town wizard, they did.

It's mostly Bitcoin, actually.

When creating a startup, you have to solve a problem for your users. When creating a token, you now have two problems — solving your users' problem, _and_ launching a new currency.…

Agree completely. I'm practically one new-tab-opened-without-me-asking away from forking a browser just to remove this behavior.

Can you explain what about "that sort of thing" is so repulsive to you, perchance?

First thing that came to mind as well.

Stablecoins reinforce dependence on the State, as they further entrench the fiat system that Bitcoin was meant to replace. It seems to me that this, and the rest of the "Decentrali…

Build a reputation network.

If your conviction is so strong, why proxy your short instead of just shorting the asset itself? I look forward to your prompt report in December...

I go back to it twice yearly

Sure, and become permanently controlled by the founders, who control 60% of the outstanding supply. Proof of Stake enables any party who at any point controls more than ⅓ of funds …

This difference is that in PoS, if anyone ever holds more than ⅓ of the total supply (as is the case with Ethereum's founders currently holding 65% of the overall issuance, for exa…

We're building this, but on Bitcoin ("Plasma but as a framework for dapps" [with a focus on developer experience]) [0]. There's already robust infrastructure for L2 contracts in Bi…

Proof of Stake not only replicates the same dynamics that Bitcoin was designed to eliminate (more wealth -> more power in system) but also can only be made secure against a maximum…