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Social stratification, genetic elitism, genetic profiling, bio-surveillance, etc. are all very real concerns. Brave New World will become non-fiction.

If someone sends physical cash to a person across the world, is there an undo button?

The money supply managed by an on-chain protocol where it’s fully open, trustless, and predictable is 100% times better then a small group of people at the treasury deciding to pri…

Then what is the future? Certainly not the government going haywire with the printer. It’s impossible to trustlessly verify the exact number of US dollars in circulation, but it’s …

> Is there any crypto out there without humans ? What OP is referring to is that you don't need to trust people if the dex is on-chain and verifiable. FTX was a non-transparent and…

It's a reality to the people of Latin America who use stablecoins on Ethereum to hedge against their own country's inflation.

For something that millions of people across the world rely on, with million+ transactions daily, it's definitely worth celebrating. It's using a magnitude less energy now than You…

> I still cannot find any legitimate use cases for blockchain Blockchains solve the double-spend problem. Allows for scarcity in the digital realm. Ethereum is a platform for decen…

Stablecoins are mostly what people use for payments. ETH is what's staked on the beacon chain.

Yes, it did work. No missed slots and high participation rate. Exceeded expectations. Congrats to all the devs!

Why do you use a pseudonym on here instead of your real name? Oh right because you care about privacy. Same reason tornado cash exists. Playing the ML card is like saying Tim Berne…

This is an interesting experiment that I'm excited about. The fact that a financial flash mob is possible is incredible. Anybody from anywhere can participate and have voting power…

If something is hard in theory, it's 10x harder in implementation. Complex systems have a lot of 'unknown unknowns' that can't be forecasted. Ethereum is $300B+ live network so eve…

Stakers in a PoS system are incentivized to do what's best for the network. It wouldn't make sense for them to stake large amounts of funds and do something that could make Ethereu…

We wake up and look at the small rectangle. Go to work and stare at the medium rectangle. Come home and watch the big rectangle.

It might reduce attacks but no operating system is bulletproof and attackers devote more resources to the operating system with more market share. If all infrastructure running on …

Another way to put it is that as you get older you start prioritizing things better that are of value to you as your time in existence is being depleted. Less time means more focus…

Most people I know that grew up in Southern California want to live long-term in California. Most people I know that grew up in a different state and tried living in Southern Calif…

I’ve tried xterm, terminator, termite, urxvt, st, kitty, and gnome-terminal but Alacritty is my go to because of it’s speed and simplicity. Alacritty has no menus, no tabs, no scro…

Anyone remember rotten.com? It was a treasure trove for morbid curiosity. You can probably still visit some of the pages on the wayback machine if you're curious. https://en.wikipe…

This is interesting but a gofundme or regular fundraising event could achieve the same thing, without paying high miner fees too.

> Nvm is macos only Half true; NVM also works on Linux and *BSD OS types.

The movie Life of Pi also comes to mind in regards to being stuck on a boat and retelling the story but Mohammed’s experience would make a great survival movie no doubt. Maybe Netf…

Ditto. Firefox takes security and privacy more seriously as well. Google's business model is selling online advertising which by nature requires data collection and tracking. I've …

I'd think the company would be concerned of these pranks defaming the company if enough employees did them.