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Bitcoiners who like to take their self custody seriously often use tools like fire resistant metal plates to write their recovery seed words through a center punch tool. Products l…

I don't have two keys. I do keep a fallback method like restore keys written on a safe place. I did find out however that my old Ledger X can do U2F and GPG so I'm trying to learn …

While in Brazil a person very close to me suffered a very destructive paranoid psychotic crisis. We've tried help from the public healthcare but their earliest waiting time was 1 m…

I mean am I wrong? I'm assuming you are from the US, Canada or Europe when you say central banks have a net positive impact on society so I can presume you are clearly speaking for…

The "legacy banking system" you are referring to is probably something similar to the ECB or the FED. Only 13% of the world population live under a stable financial system or democ…

Gravity in both situations may not be comparable but victim blaming is always reprehensible.

Are we blaming victims now? What’s next? It was her fault for wearing those clothes?

The problem here is not a bet on crypto but a company that basically went "oh hey sorry too bad the USD displayed on your account is actually UST. K thx bye".

That's not the link under the Latest news section on https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stablegains

Tether truthing the eminent doom of tether is all well and good but why aren't we talking more about YCombinator promoting startups that burned their customer's money by sending it…

I’ve tried using á RockPro64 with FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT and although it runs just fine without hacks I’ve noticed the performance is not that good. FreeBSD is not big.little aware s…

> Inflation encourages spending > Incentive to spend. So less crap being produced and bought in a whim and more decision making process on purchasing long lasting quality products …

This. I'm pretty sure I've read COVID contract tracing data being used for other purposes somewhere out there.

You are moving the target. I've asked how stable coins pegged to the dollar are considered speculative assets.

Try passing through border control on such countries while packing gold or expensive gold accessories.

Nothing you wrote makes any sense. We are talking about stable coins. Where does speculations fits here? Also could you make an argument without making accusations?

That's a rare situation. The first thing a government does when their economy starts to colapse is to force the population to use and save in their dying currency while restricting…

> Remember, with a stablecoin, there is no upside to holding. As always people around here tend to see the world from their point of privilege. If you are in Turkey, Sudan or Venez…

Maybe the real store of value was the memes we did along the way. https://youtu.be/e5nyQmaq4k4

> If i need privacy, Cryptomator ( https://cryptomator.org/ ) handles end-to-end encryption. I don't think that's enough to qualify as a privacy measure. Those encrypted files will…

This is basically saying “We are going to allow you to participate on society just a little as long as you follow the rules and is associated with these institutions we approve”. H…

I don't want to sound negative but "I code since I was a toddler" articles are one of the main reasons I've took a long time to work on proper coding skills. Being from a poor fami…

> I use the Caddy webserver I used to love Caddy. Not so after the move to 2.0 when they got the json formatted config thing going on. Of course there is still Caddyfile but most o…

I use Mullvad mainly for privacy but also to dodge EU cookie bullshit. The internet becomes so much better just by using a Swiss IP addres.

That's correct. Smart contracts are absolutely bleeding edge features that work on top of an Ethereum-like chain which by itself doesn't mind advancing the roadmap even if somethin…