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Sony's exclusive games are the best IMO. You can't play those on PC (unless they do a PC-port many years later).

> If you believe that financial regulations are the "nanny", you probably only have a child-like understanding of things

Have you heard of the term "accredited investor"? That's 100% a "nanny" regulation that excludes poorer people from opportunities.

> Yet it performs worse in every measurable metric.

You jump to arbitrary conclusions. You probably did the same when it comes to Bitcoin that's why you say factually wrong things like in the comment. For example, do you understand what near-instant settlement means?

> One does not need to be a criminal for proper regulations to apply.

Ad hominem while stating the obvious. Yikes.

> Literally any asset will "save you" from the "relentless printing." That's an oversimplification. Let's just say that Bitcoin and Ethereum are now the apex assets.

Similar crashes in the TradFi space would be considered worse than "catastrophic". Media would struggle to find words to describe them.

Tether maybe used to be a huge risk for the Bitcoin price a few years back. Notice that we are only talking about the $ price here and not the tech.

The market is way more robust now, especially now that Ethereum is so huge and provides way cleaner alternatives like DAI and USDC.

> people out themselves as having never worked on anything significant I really don't understand how you jumped to this condescending conclusion.

> the other side turns out to be fraudulent Crypto is not here to protect you from falling victim to fraud. It is here to replace a faulty and completely outdated financial infrastructure. The same laws against criminals apply whether they use crypto or not.

The Daily Gwei (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDailyGwei) is great for catching up with news.

Also the ROLLUP series from Bankless (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooIZzpOsoko)

I can protect my own money, thank you. I do not need a nanny.

Anonymity might seem redundant to you and other people who "have nothing to hide". However, in a slightly more dystopian reality -e.g. when we are forced to use CBDCs- the government might choose to block you from using your hard earned money because you posted a criticism of the president on twitter.

And the market rebounded without a government bailout.

In my book, there's some value in protecting the average Joe from the incessant dollar printing that decreases the value of the dollars in their saving accounts.

That's just one argument for Bitcoin, there are more. For example, it provides the opportunity to second/third world countries to break free from the IMF debt slavery.

What's going with the "western" world? Look at Australia, UK and now USA. Citizens are voluntarily giving up on hard-won rights like free speech in favor of what? A false sense of security? Saddens me deeply.

Bitcoin fixes this.

Also, it is very valuable to persist all these videos/screenshots in the cloud. You can re-use them later and maybe it will help you debug. It is neat to auto-organize these files.

It doesn't work like that. The moment you end the capture, the video is automatically uploaded, the link is provided and you just send it over slack or paste to jira or whatever.

Meh I am an existing user, can't be bothered to change to this. Convenience matters.

It automatically stores your captures to your dropbox account. Would be good to allow you to store locally as well though.

It should be seamless. You just record a video and it is instantly shareable. Could be useful for reporting UI bugs. You can also use the mic to describe the problem.

No, miners already migrated. This is affecting Chinese holders more than anything.

What prevents a criminal buying a chef's knife and committing a crime with it?

I am surprised that selling tools which potentially "enable murder" hasn't triggered some overzealous regulator in DC yet. It seems like low-hanging fruit. /s

Pro-authoritarian sentiment keeps going strong. Why is it so normalized these days?

Thank you for taking the time to type this. The topic of PoW vs PoS is very misunderstood and I see a lot of dishonesty in online forums.

I am very optimistic about Ethereum. It is not perfect but it is massively and consistently improving. The past few years, all crypto innovation was incubated within the Ethereum community.

It's the only time the candidate has more power than the employer because the latter showed their hands.

Been there as well. Once you are in, social skills and deeply understanding company/team culture is of vital importance and requires much less effort.

There are a lot of top paying jobs (e.g. FB) that you would never get into without LC grinding.

DeFi: Removing middlemen (and their fees) as well as discrimination based on arbitrary criteria from all kinds of financial services. Also, these services can easily run 24/7.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are also... networks!

It would be great if the gigantic Bitcoin energy demand leads to renewable energy breakthroughs.

I could never put more eloquently. Chilling effect and slippery slope.

Ponzi/pyramid schemes require you to pay the nodes above you. At some point you cannot find new victims to add under you. On the contrary, networks like Bitcoin do not work like that. Buying Bitcoin doesn't affect the Bitcoin balances of any other node in the network.

This is how Ethereum is competing with Bitcoins in terms of "store of value".

I am also running a couple of validators at home without special hardware.