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Awesome interview, thanks for the link. The end of the interview where Chomsky describes the Internet as a double-edged sword and (correctly) suggests that it could turn into "a ho…

I think these are more questions about Gaia than Stealthy, but apply to any multi-user application on Blockstack: - How are my messages to another user retrieved from my encrypted …

Thanks for getting back to me! > if the close gives Alice 10 lumens and Bob 10 lumens, these must be expressed as two transactions. As in, in this case, closing requires two transa…

Can the final transaction to the network (that closes a channel) be a series of transactions? In other words, can a state channel allow for transactions with more than 100 operatio…

Can any Stellar operation be used within a state channel, and as a result, can any Stellar transaction be sent through the LN? For example, my use case requires users increasing an…

Speed? No, not really in comparison to any other LN implementation. But Stellar will be supporting state channels in addition to payment channels, (presumably) allowing for even fa…

This is awesome work, and a great example of the kinds of civic analysis and action developers can take to make their cities and communities better, or at least more informed of th…

It's different because regardless if your node is online or not, venmo's servers can still accept payments on your behalf, and it's presumed that taking venmo's servers offline wou…

Section "Money creation in reality" [1]. States that 97% of money in circulation are from bank deposits, the majority of which are themselves created by commercial banks (though it…

When was the last time you spent $FB on food or rent?

I don't think it's accurate to say that the risk of spending $1 per Bitcoin in 2011 is proportional to the $4000 reward I have today.

> net neutrality is a case where regulation is stopping really bad things from happening I'm fairly anti-regulation and I from what I understand, net neutrality is a (federal) regu…

Well it's pretty easy to spend an asset that's consistently increasing in value... the real test of it's utility as money is how many businesses and people have started accepting B…

> Yes the rational choice model is well-established to be false. Citation? I hear this a lot, and it seems to stem from a misunderstanding of the word "rational" in this context, w…

> 1) Well I know the guy that wrote it - he's one of the smartest and most talented people I know and he's not bullshitting. But by all means, try to break it!

Which service do I use to log in to the account I created when Stellar first launched?

I'd argue intensity is as, if not more, important than just "statistics." A source that tells one lie that starts a war is much worse IMO than one that tells 99 lies about celebrit…

What's laughable? You can choose which businesses you want to interact with anytime you want, and if you don't like their policies, choose someone else. While you can "choose" a po…

> the overall community didn't thought the system would survive the eventual switch to proof of stake if 15% of all ether was in the hands of malicious actor The author of Casper, …

> the overall community didn't thought the system would survive the eventual switch to proof of stake if 15% of all ether was in the hands of malicious actor The author of Casper, …

> It's true some employees at the ethereum foundation had personal money invested in the DAO. Vitalik himself had a small amount invested as well. However, the Ethereum Foundation …

Hmm do you have any plugins that manipulate your browser's User Agent string? We use bowser [0] for detecting your browser version, and (currently) support Chrome all the way down …

You should check out cycle-react [1], as it combines the best of Cycle and React. [1] https://github.com/pH200/cycle-react

Because he can't win and people don't like throwing away their votes on ideology. First-past-the-post voting systems all but guarantee that when you vote for a third-party candidat…

Ya, he's one of the co-founders of Hack Reactor [1] and is a pretty brilliant lecturer. [1] http://www.hackreactor.com/