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It is crazy that if we were observing Voyager 1 through a telescope, and we remotely turned on a light on the spaceship, it would still take us 1 day to see the light turn on.

OP's article states:

>A total of $12.5bn (£10bn) was embezzled, the equivalent of almost 3% of Vietnamese gross domestic product, but prosecutors said on Thursday the total damages caused by the scam now amounted to $27bn.

Some context for Europe.

>Forest area has increased by 9% since 1990, although the rate of expansion is slowing down

https://foresteurope.org/state-of-europes-forests/

>re: 4

"The results of this survey show that the members of the BMC and participants in the survey are currently utilizing electricity with a 63.1% sustainable power mix."

https://bitcoinminingcouncil.com/

The BMC is mostly composed of US miners.

Why are e-ink displays still relatively expensive?

>The findings do not mean Alzheimer's is infectious - you cannot catch it from contact with people who have it.

Alzheimer's being an infectious disease is still being researched. The article does nothing to disprove it.

I don't see it that different from working on open source software. I'm talking about what drives the creators, not the legality of it.

>DATE & TIME ARE ALWAYS CORRECT AND NEVER NEED TO BE ADJUSTED

Reads like a quote from a Philip K. Dick book.

>October 18, 2023: I noticed the vulnerability is now fixed – the email sending API now requires authentication. I ask CERT-In if TTIBI can offer a bug bounty reward.

>TTIBI never responded to the question, so I decided to close the case on December 22 and CERT-In sent me a nice appreciation letter.

The letter:

"Dear Eaton Zveare,

This email is written in appreciation and recognition of your efforts for bringing our attention to the "Cryptographic Failures" in one of the Indian websites on 08.08.2023. The role of responsible security researchers is pivotal for creating a secure cyber ecosystem and CERT-In strongly believes in working actively with a researcher like you for the discovery of cyber security vulnerabilities and their subsequent remediation in a responsible manner.

We look forward to your valuable contribution in future as well.

Thanks & Regards"

https://eaton-works.com/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/VwwCqBIYNXeyNQ...

100% agree. But you are shooting the messenger, I just translated OPs message. Applying "intrinsic value" to cryptocurrencies is flawed.

Just some perspective:

Price (market cap): ~3B

Annualized revenue based on the last 30 days: 3M.

Intrinsic value based on perpetual DCF assuming 5% interest rate: 60M.

Yeah, you are right. They actually liked a couple of random tweets too. Most likely hacked.

Here you go: https://polymarket.com/event/bitcoin-etf-approved-by-jan-15

Here is a tweet from one of the main ETF experts:

@EricBalchunas "On TV right on talking about this.. and yes, I think someone prepped a planned tweet and put wrong date, bc the tweet would have made PERFECT sense tomorrow at this time. The language sounds legit SEC-ish IMO vs a crypto knucklehead pulling a prank but I guess we'll see.."

https://twitter.com/EricBalchunas/status/1744835562643595652

Well, "Amateur following tutorial games HF leaderboard to become the #1 model" seems just as impressive to me.

> They have to remove the preview feature.

They can just disable it for contacts that you don't have on your contact list.

>here needs to be a mechanism to bind your IRL identity to your digital identity and your device(s)

No, this creates more problems than it solves.

>That’s not going to happen with Bitcoin.

??? That has been possible for years: https://github.com/greenaddress/abcore

Here are the release notes: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/26.x/doc/release-not...

Child labor tends to go away with the increase in GDP.

Not crypto. Bitcoin had a very short GPU phase that spanned for a few months, before moving to FPGAs and finally to ASICs.

Ethereum made a concerted effort to sabotage ASIC mining, and remain GPU minable. Such is the case for all other GPU minable coins.

So no, I don't think crypto needed GPUs.

Related to that, I feel like AI should start moving to FGPAs/ASICs soon.

There is no tax harmonization in Europe; therefore, each country regulates taxes differently. While most countries offer some form of guidance, explicit regulation is not universal.

It seems more efficient than what it is replacing:

>This brings the gold mining industry’s 2020 total to 265 TWh of energy used and 145 Mt of CO2 produced if we use the DePaul study’s numbers and account for 1750 tons of jewelry.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/a-comparison-of-bitcoins-env...

The 4-year moving average is only up:

https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/charts/4-yr-ma/

It didn't play a major role, the WSJ made it up due to bad accounting and journalism.

Here is the summary: https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1717210060777009636

- WSJ journalists (Angus Berwick & Ian Talley) write a flurry of articles citing Elliptic data claiming that PIJ (Hamas affiliate) raised $93m in crypto (and cites BitOK claiming Hamas raised $41m) [1]

- Sen Warren uses this article to claim that Hamas raised "over $130m" in crypto. This article is her SOLE citation in her letter. The entire letter depends on the WSJ article [2]

- Over 100 member of Congress sign the letter, which asks for the Biden admin to further crack down on crypto

- Chainalysis comes out with an article disputing the WSJ claims, saying that instead of $82m of terror financing, the real figure is around $450k. It's unclear which wallets they are referring to. Either way, it looks like the WSJ analysis is vastly overstated [3]

- WSJ refuses to follow up or retract, instead writing more articles relying on their claims

[1] https://archive.ph/hdcWc

[2] https://warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023.10.17%20Letter%...

[3] https://chainalysis.com/blog/cryptocurrency-terrorism-financ...

>a vague long-term uptrend in prices makes something a store of value

A stable and 100% predetermined issuance schedule, along with its scarcity, it's what makes Bitcoin a good store of value. The steady uptrend in prices is the consequence.

>useless technology.

Just because it's functionality is limited it doesn't make it useless. A store of value that doesn't require boring the planet, or building empty houses, seems like a great improvement to me. I think that you are conflating the cryptobro culture, with the true value that Bitcoin brings to the table.

>It's basically the same as with stocks.

In many countries, since crypto is not regulated, you can't write off the losses, but you still have to pay taxes on the gains.

Does the narration sound like AI to anyone else?

>"In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win."

If humanity loses even once it's Game Over.

Thanks for sharing. I think that this comment is going to age well.