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I've been meaning to try and fix the wikipedia article again. I last did that and got into an obnoxious fight with jytdog. I heard a couple months ago that he dox'd and called to h…

not a YC company? they maintain a monopoly on job hiring posts on this site, you can however make the "monthly" hiring thread and post there

The FDA/DEA have waged war on the kratom industry in extralegal fashion; I've had my personal bank accounts and credit cards shut down without explanation via https://en.wikipedia.…

Appeasement card: https://i.redd.it/n9zqxbbhfar31.png https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/dexong/cool_new_car...

Right. I imagine a future where AI capital entities just hold bitcoin and never do anything with it other than hold it forever to secure the things they're doing on the advanced fi…

In the USA at least, it still exists, and it's called cash. If cash were invented today, it would be illegal. For most small payments if not large transfers, in the USA consumers a…

The white paper says it uses the Stellar consensus protocol but doesn't specify that the coin is on the Stellar network.

For what it's worth, we also trust the NSA to have written and verified our most important cryptographic hash functions, leading to the first rule of crypto -- never roll your own …

Bernie Madoff is reportedly quite popular in prison, if anyone was wondering.

I lost a bank account last year and was unbanked for a little while. I really hate my customer service interactions with banks and would be quite happy if I could unbank myself. Li…

Consumer micropayments is one of the most basic possible applications of this technology and that it hasn't been implemented yet is sad. I'm not a fan of the customer experience of…

Your github led me to https://turtlecoin.lol/ which makes your point and undermines it at the same time. Turtlecoin launched with an incremental and a catchy name and no ICO and on…

Pessimistically, they won't. Optimistically, they solve consumer micropayments by allowing the unbanked to send and store money via WhatsApp.

The main difference is that MobileCoin trusts Intel's SGX to create a platform that should be able to scale quickly on mobile. It also has a solution to allow for private key recov…

I don't see nearly as much use case for humans and cryptocurrency as for AI and cryptocurrency. I think in the future, the average technologically savvy person will be just as conf…

I see cryptocurrency as a harbinger of AI, which is the real revolution. Blockchain is just a tool. People get really confused trying to understand and develop pricing models for t…

Summarized on boingboing as "Public goods are REALLY good: thousands of years later, the Roman roads are still paying dividends" https://boingboing.net/2018/04/10/romanes-eunt-domu…