This is a bad idea for a couple of reasons: > “If generating money out of thin air by using a computer program seems absurd, that’s because it is,” Grayson Earle, who dreamed up and co-leads the project, told In Justice Today Does this person actually understand how crypto mining works? (Classy of them to take a swipe at the very technology enabling their project, by the way.) Even with a GTX1080 TI, at $0.12/kWH you…
Hilarious. Does he not realize how the fed works?
Cryptocurrency Is the Next Frontier in the Quest to Abolish Cash Bail
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Re: Cryptocurrency Is the Next Frontier in the Quest to Abolish Cash Bail
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure this won't be a popular opinion on a website where most people probably make close to 100k but bail would be a lot more fair if it were based on total income.
Typical bails are so small already that I can't seem to get riled up over this particular "injustice". An assault and battery charge will generally get you a $10K bail. Assuming the typical bondsman charges 10%, that's a measly $1,000 to be walking the streets again after assaulting someone. I can already hear the stampede of justice troopers coming to tell me that $1,000 of emergency funds is too much to ask of your…
The first search result I got back says that median retirement savings are That $1k is only "small" for us rich folk.
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#43Classic silicon valley-like thinking. Try to "disrupt" a system without understanding what it is for and why it was designed the way it was. Bail is designed to prevent flight risk. It is set high enough that you'd have a hard time coming up with that much money without being forced to stay and appear. Having strangers pay your bail means you have no reason to stay. It makes bail jumping more likely. People having a…
Does it actually in practice prevent flight, or does it just fuck over people who can't pay?
Re: Cryptocurrency Is the Next Frontier in the Quest to Abolish Cash Bail
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Once a user installs the app on their computer, it automatically harnesses a small amount of unused processing power to mine for cryptocurrency
It defaults to 25% CPU usage (and appears to be an electron app). Which I would've placed as greater than small. https://github.com/thenewinquiry/bailbloc/blob/401cb4f288d88... Concede the point that users would be making an informed (albeit minimally) decision.
https://github.com/thenewinquiry/bailbloc/blob/401cb4f288d88...
Re: Cryptocurrency Is the Next Frontier in the Quest to Abolish Cash Bail
#45Classic silicon valley-like thinking. Try to "disrupt" a system without understanding what it is for and why it was designed the way it was. Bail is designed to prevent flight risk. It is set high enough that you'd have a hard time coming up with that much money without being forced to stay and appear. Having strangers pay your bail means you have no reason to stay. It makes bail jumping more likely. People having a…
So, how well does that theory match reality? Does it actually in practice prevent flight, or does it just fuck over people who can't pay?
Like I said. This is a problem that need to be solved legislatively, not by paying others' bail inefficiently.
Re: Cryptocurrency Is the Next Frontier in the Quest to Abolish Cash Bail
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Typical bails are so small already that I can't seem to get riled up over this particular "injustice". An assault and battery charge will generally get you a $10K bail. Assuming the typical bondsman charges 10%, that's a measly $1,000 to be walking the streets again after assaulting someone. I can already hear the stampede of justice troopers coming to tell me that $1,000 of emergency funds is too much to ask of your…
> again after assaulting someone. They haven't been to court yet, they might be innocent.
Re: Cryptocurrency Is the Next Frontier in the Quest to Abolish Cash Bail
#47This is a bad idea for a couple of reasons: > “If generating money out of thin air by using a computer program seems absurd, that’s because it is,” Grayson Earle, who dreamed up and co-leads the project, told In Justice Today Does this person actually understand how crypto mining works? (Classy of them to take a swipe at the very technology enabling their project, by the way.) Even with a GTX1080 TI, at $0.12/kWH you…
Hilarious. Does he not realize how the fed works?
The Federal Reserve system is directly supported by the economic output of the entire US and the taxing power of the US Government (it's further supported by the vast global demand for dollars and the dollar as the global reserve currency; that global reserve status can be further ensured by the US military). For example, if US budget deficits get too great, requiring support in the form of QE by the Fed, which then causes the dollar's value to drop, the US Congress can increase taxes to lower or eliminate the budget deficit. A healthy US economy is critical to supporting the Fed's abilities as it pertains to the USD. All of the Fed's actions and all of the things the Fed can buy, are directly linked to the US economy.
You can certainly print incredibly vast quantities of fiat - that won't help you at all if your economy is toast, if people don't fundamentally believe in what backs the currency, just ask Venezuela or Zimbabwe. When the Fed debases the dollar, what they're doing is taxing the wealth & economic output of the US economy, not solely manufacturing value out of nothing, they're spliting off value from an existing economy (and to a lesser extent global economic value from eg dollars & commodities held overseas).
Absolutely nothing like that exists for Bitcoin.
Re: Cryptocurrency Is the Next Frontier in the Quest to Abolish Cash Bail
#48This is a bad idea for a couple of reasons: > “If generating money out of thin air by using a computer program seems absurd, that’s because it is,” Grayson Earle, who dreamed up and co-leads the project, told In Justice Today Does this person actually understand how crypto mining works? (Classy of them to take a swipe at the very technology enabling their project, by the way.) Even with a GTX1080 TI, at $0.12/kWH you…
Erh, this is literally how every bank does it when they extend a loan.
Re: Cryptocurrency Is the Next Frontier in the Quest to Abolish Cash Bail
#49This is a bad idea for a couple of reasons: > “If generating money out of thin air by using a computer program seems absurd, that’s because it is,” Grayson Earle, who dreamed up and co-leads the project, told In Justice Today Does this person actually understand how crypto mining works? (Classy of them to take a swipe at the very technology enabling their project, by the way.) Even with a GTX1080 TI, at $0.12/kWH you…
Re: your first point I don't think it's an attempted solution to a problem of efficient wealth transfer, I think it's an attempt to solve the issue of marketing a charity. Any charity's argument is essentially 'give us your wealth so we can do something good with it for people who do not have wealth'. Being able to reduce the cost for donators to something as low as the cost of electricity and the simplicity of downl…
Re: Cryptocurrency Is the Next Frontier in the Quest to Abolish Cash Bail
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
> again after assaulting someone. They haven't been to court yet, they might be innocent.
True, but it's more likely they're guilty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate#cite_note-5
the presumption of innocence is an international human right. justice-by-statistics is an extremely bad idea.