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Too many game theoretic attacks with stablecoins - still unproven.

RSA accumulators is an active area of research that will help with unlinking inputs and outputs, see the grin forum thread for more discussion: https://www.grin-forum.org/t/benedik…

> Community funded. Pure mine. Rust, inflationary economics, cuckoo cycles. No governance, but that is debatable. Small team making decisions. What is that? Somebody has to do the …

You obviously have never been to a Greek hospital.

cri-o is a container runtime optimized for Kubernetes. http://cri-o.io/

What about the waste generated by the banking system? Banks have to use electricity in order to operate, right? I haven't seen anybody complain about them as if they are eco-friend…

Even the code is not enough, is it? Once you have it, how do you know that's what they deploy?

Do you really believe that Facebook (US company) has not complied with the US goverment and WhatsApp is safe for private communication?

> Remember Usenet? Remember email? Remember IRC? I think there's a false dichotomy in the mind of many nowadays, mainly that the internet is either centralized or "blockchain based…

> Finally, it is a money system mainly used by organized criminals to launder money. Citation needed.

Does this mean that we should sit back and enjoy the show because "actors with under-handed intentions" and "precedent"s? Wake up. We can only get through collectively.

None of the above. What the parent comment is sarcastic about is a line of argument people use, especially politicians who want to promote their agendas.

Generally, I try to avoid criticising others but this logic is really disturbing and dangerous and I am very worried about people who stand behind it. It hasn't gotten us anywhere.…

Yeah, sorry, I replied to the parent while thinking forward. I agree that in order for cryptos to succeed, merchants have to use them first. It is definitely not simple and we are …

Wait until most cryptos support atomic swaps.

Once LN is established, I expect that this is going to be opaque for an end user. Example: Today, you don't need to specify http:// in order to use it in a browser.

I think that the area where you want fault-tolerance the most is decentralized cash. If you are going to take control of your money you better do it in a fault-tolerant system. Man…

I happen to read Walden these days (almost done) and I am questioning the critic of Thoreau in this article. For one, Thoreau admits that he is not pure (also questionable is his d…

Does the DDG addon replace other addons like HTTPSEverywhere or uBlock?