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SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed

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Re: SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed

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Post by kragen »

ohgodplsno wrote: post #70
tmtvl wrote: post #29

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It is, indeed, a subjective thing. I personally have given up on cryptocurrency, but I seem to recall (and the absolute worthless rag called Reuters seems to corroborate: https://www.reuters.com/technology/venezuelas-economy-regres... ) that Venezuelans found a recourse in crypto after the Venezuelan economy imploded. However that is just one data point, and the utter lack of any real wins aside from that would seem…

No, Venezuelians were forced into cryptocurrency by a completely incompetent leader that thought that making your country based solely around gas was a sensible idea, and despite buying millions upon millions in various cryptocurrencies, has lost over 50% of their investment. The bolivar is still hyperinflated, the Petro is still useless.

I think you're conflating Venezuela with El Salvador?

Re: SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed

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Post by minraws »

tossl568 wrote: post #133
envolt wrote: post #130

Never read a better summary before - > These domains are strongly associated with fraudulent activities and high-risk investments which take advantage of people who are suffering from economic hardship and growing global wealth inequality. Few to no legitimate use-cases for this technology have been found; instead it is mostly used for fraudulent “get rich quick” schemes and to facilitate criminal activity, such as r…

A monetary unit that can't be debased running on an open, permissionless financial network anybody can use is the use-case. The big and only use case. Research suggests less than 1% of "crypto" usage is for criminal activity. Energy isn't fungible and it isn't wasted if it's securing hundreds of billions of value for hundreds of millions of people. So maybe you shouldn't send something to everyone you know if it isn'…

WTH my man, not just Tornedo(Or whatever) and such are criminal, but any fraud or scam in crypto should also be considered criminal.

And I know atleast 5 banks with over 1 Billion in cap, went down. Not sure how that's not over 1 percent my man. But sure hell there are issues with Crypto as it stands.

Also I can for certain say more than 1 percent of fiat is used in illegal stuff. Not sure how crypto is doing so much better... When all I hear are stories of Hacks, Frauds and Rugpulls.

You can also use GNU Taler if you just want zero knowledge and mostly permissionless...

Re: SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed

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Post by AlexAltea »

orange-mentor wrote: post #200
AlexAltea wrote: post #109

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With all due respect, I do not care about your moral compass. I want the predictability that as long as I am not breaking the law, my data can be safely hosted. Am I supposed to now pay attention to law and the countless individual moral compasses of people/vendors I interact with? Moral compasses are tricky, some people let them run amok, and end up infecting computers with revenge-ransomware just for having their s…

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Cool. You and your friends go your way! My friends and I will go ours, sounds good?

Re: SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed

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Post by dang »

newbieuser wrote: post #187
newbieuser wrote: post #184

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Breaking the site guidelines like this isn't allowed, and we ban accounts that do.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Re: SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed

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Post by imran-iq »

_zllx wrote: post #224

I expected a bit better of someone who faced a lot of anti-Wayland dogma, which I noted as being very similar to anti-cryptocurrency dogma, most of which I am seeing repeated for the umpteenth time in this post and thread.

Wayland is usable? I am using it currently as my display server and have been for many years

What use does crypto have?

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Post by threatofrain »

_aavaa_ wrote: post #16
Herbstluft wrote: post #11

I'm not a Sourcehut user (yet), but the more I hear and read about it, the more it seems like the creators and owner(s) care. Glad to read this. The whole topic of cryptocurrencies and blockchain has become a good marker to identify companies that actually care about their users, technology, and the product they build. Another good example here would be the (highly skilled) devs over at Valve [1]. Not just when it co…

Seems conspicuous of valve given tf2 hats and cs:go skins.

What's wrong with in-game cosmetics as a funding model? They don't purport to be a stand-in for currency or anything useful at all, and thus are purely for cosmetics. What's worse is buying something that does matter to the game AKA pay-to-win; compare to Diablo where you pay to beat other players.

This is just a "pay what you want" model in disguise, and not surprisingly some people pay nothing and will face no competitive disadvantage in the game.

Re: SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed

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Post by ghoward »

ddevault wrote: post #13
fazfq wrote: post #10

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Even if any of their projects (or the projects of anybody who's reading these comments) are affected, this is a sign of things to come - kicking projects out for political reasons and moving to the EU means that one never knows what may come next.

We do not kick people out for political differences.

Yes, you will.

What else does this mean:

> The scope of this is intended to cover incidents where users harass other users or make bigoted, racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc, comments on our platform.

You say "harass other users OR make bigoted...etc, comments on our platform."

The fact that you said "or" means that you intend to kick users off who make comments that you judge to be that, even if it's not harassment. Doing so is admitting that you will ban people purely for political differences on those topics.

Re: SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed

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Post by xigoi »

zeroclip wrote: post #214
NoGravitas wrote: post #205

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Proof of stake is a pyramid scheme.

um, no? How is it one? Validators are paid mostly from protocol reward by placing their capital at risk and performing the necessary work to validate the network.

So the richest get even richer, at the expense of everyone else. How is that not a pyramid scheme?
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