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You seem to be speaking for ... a lot of people you can't possibly know -- such as me, and every person I work with and deal with on a day to day basis in the Crypto R&D field.

As for Monero -- don't complain, let's bring it mainstream by building something. Specifically: something that state-level interference can't stop, even if they're quivering in rage that it exists!

That's what us "speculators" who code every day on large-scale Cryptocurrency decentralized systems are doing...

Governor Tarkin:

    Princess Leia, before your execution, you will join me at a ceremony that will make this battle station operational. No star system will dare oppose the Emperor now.

Princess Leia:

    The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

Every government and central bank in the world is tightening their grip around the tiniest transactions of their citizenry. In the meantime, they are printing Trillions and shovelling it to their sycophantic corporate and political elite buddies.

And then, they wonder why people are being driven to use Cryptocurrency...

For those of you who are offended by this characterization; how does burdening 8 billion law-abiding Citizens with impossibly complex and arduous KYC/AML requirements make sense -- when just one FTX incident exceeds the value of all legitimate remittance transactions on the planet for the entire year, and KYC/AML doesn't affect the likes of FTX, Tether, etc. in the least?

Perhaps you feel like you're "doing something". You are -- making every law-abiding free Citizen feel like a criminal and expend countless hours of life-energy, to do precisely nothing to solve the problem, while crippling the legitimate small business and personal enterprise of the entire planet.

Congratulations!

I don't think so...

The general populace will use the crippled AIs presented by mainstream corporations and governments.

Anyone who cares about their information will use un-crippled AIs operating without guardrails, which are always available to monitor what they read and hear, and comment on it.

Sort of like when my relatives call me to analyze a potential Phishing email -- I don't do anything difficult; view the raw mail; check the DKIM signing and SPF validity, look at the full URLs of originating servers vs. the claimed From: and the document contents' claimed source, verify all transited MTAs, check the contents for malicious looking payloads, etc.

Any half-decently trained LLM can do all of this, instantly and trivially, and lay out the evidence in an understandable fashion for a non-technical user.

Imagine that, but amplified by an LLM trained to recognize and categorize arguments in a variety of technical fields. Not to tell you what to believe -- but to categorize the claims by its heritage vs. the main groupings of theories in that field, and then give a set of links to highly rated "for" and "against" arguments.

I don't need some LLM trained by a partisan, with guard-rails set up by some corporation's legal and HR departments. I don't think most people will stand for that, when we have laptops that can already run reasonably capable LLMs w/ training on focussed datasets!

This is really one of the great things about Twitter, etc.

Follow a few people who are proven (by their predictive accuracy) to be experts in their fields.

Their comments on the quality of claims in their field of expertise is much more valuable than the reports being made by "experts" presented on corporate media, or by LLMs.

Learning to code with an AI assistant is pretty much the ideal way to learn and understand the profound limitations of LLM based AIs.

After just a few minutes, the outputs presented by your AI in a highly confident manner will be shown to be … suspect, or completely wrong.

It quickly casts a shadow over everything else it confidently spews forth as “truth”.

Well, I’d rather be considered a fool and give my children a chance to be free, than be considered wise and force them to live as slaves.

CBDCs such as the proposed BritCoin, which implement programmable suicide pacts (holding caps, limits on what can be purchased/sold) must be rejected.

You have 2 choices — and one of them isn’t to not use “Crypto”.

Your choices are:

- do I hold only government controlled Cryptocurrencies, or

- do I hold Cryptocurrency that I control, and cannot be destroyed by my government at their whim?

There are a lot of small software developers who would like to get paid, but either can’t charge potential clients (too much regulatory overhead), or are completely un-banked (reside in remote areas w/little infrastructure or are residents of the same country as the boogie-man du jour)

This let’s them get paid, even if every government in the word shakes in rage at the idea of someone licensing their software.

But for normal companies buying software through their finance department, having a Fiat-to-crypto account where they can get a USD$ invoice approved and wire the funds would be wonderful!

I’ve fought for 6+ months just to get one invoice paid (USA client, Canadian vendor). This would have made my pain so much less. For African or Eastern European clients, I basically can’t offer them my software as they effectively can’t pay me.

If you can KYC the client company, and then they could pay via your service and deposit to a crypto account associated with the KYC-ed vendor — this will be a huge win!

This is awesome.

I’m nearing completion of a Crypto invoicing and payment platform that works without dependence on any infrastructure — but can’t receive payments in Fiat, only Crypto.

This technology would provide a hugely valuable option; to wire Fiat currency, and pay for the service/software in Crypto.

Because delivery of the Crypto payment to the designated address is the licensing mechanism…

And DEI programs are the most pernicious form of racism existing today.

Nothing is worse than a group who believes they are harassing/oppressing you for your own good.

There is no true diversity in human affairs apart from intellectual diversity.

And if you look at the most DEI-compliant places — they are desserts of intellectual diversity.

Nobody interesting would want to work/study there.

I’m not sure what I just read, but it was awesome.

I’ve worked on Compressed Natural Gas vehicles. 3,600psi CNG is interesting enough to handle, and bulky.

Compressed Hydrogen at 10,000psi w/ a 1” thick walled wound carbon fiber tank to get even less mileage? With all the metal components going brittle over time?

Good luck with that.

Wow; these recommendations sound like they’re proposing solid, rigorous education.

Never gonna happen.

Education is a conduit from donors (private and public) to teacher’s union members and administrative staff.

Students are an expense to be managed. Sort of like chickens.

A few of the more we’ll known theories:

- no stars in photos (film’s dynamic range too low)

- no observable landing sites (resolution of telescopes too low)

There are many others.

We will soon have LLMs that:

- aren’t infected by “Woke” theology (ie. accurately reflects the source material, not someone’s belief-based constraints)

- prioritizes the sources that most succinctly explain the desired topic

- And, sounds least like something generated by an LLM!

Good.

Because what I never, ever want to see or use is an AI crippled by woke theology.

Haven’t we learned anything from the movie 2001?

Teaching AIs to lie about what they observe from their inputs isn’t the answer!

This is the same argument Galileo experienced.

“… to 7.8% higher for ages 20-44.”

Just slipped that in there; nothing to see here, move along, move along.

I don’t know how many standard deviations away from normal this is, but it’s apparently a lot: — once in centuries — a lot.

But I’m sure it’s nothing. And absolutely sure it’s not … the thing. Cause it’s not.

USD: no gold

This: maybe gold

Any other questions?

Equating the desire for privacy with criminality says more about you than the object of your contempt.

I'd likely use it, in preference to savings in any Fiat currency.

Of course, the magic of any crypto "Stable Coin" is in the redemption... How can anyone (outside Russia or Iran) convert their holdings into physical Gold?

You don't "rewrite" the destination (the "To: <address>" header); you just forward the email along using another "RCPT TO: <address>".

How do you propose that you "rewrite" headers without breaking DKIM? Any header included in the message's DKIM "h=to:from:... " stanza cannot be changed; they're included in the DKIM signature.

You can simply textually include the entire original email in a completely NEW email message, that is DKIM-signed by your intermediate (forwarding) MTA -- but that's not "forwarding", at all -- that's just "sending an email".

Is this what you're describing?

Not sure I follow. I've been running public "forwarding" email servers for 20 years, and ... this is exactly what they do. This is exactly what Cloudflare's "forwarding" email solution does (except it has ARC and everyone who wants to support forwarding includes Cloudflare's MTAs in their ARC configuration).

Little guys like me (of course) don't get included in anyone's ARC configuration, to patch over SPF's profound design failure.

If you're describing a "forwarding" solution that doesn't simply do SMTP "RCPT TO" forwarding, then I don't understand what you're describing...

SMTP "forwarding" (sending an email message with a header "To: <originaladdress>", to a different "RCPT TO: <differentaddress>") is "broken by design"?

Sure, it's probably silly. But, SMTP is what it is, and you're not going to change it by complaining

SPF's design just ... forgot about this, which happens all the time for email.

Every MTA -- literally every forwarding MTA -- does this all day long, and every receiving MTA (which looks at the "Return-Path: <originaladdress>" to lookup the SPF TXT record), gets your fancy "v=spf1 ... nothing w/ forwarding MTA in it ... -all" record, and summarily executes the email w/ SPF: FAIL?

It's just wrong. SPF can only serve as one (strong) hint that an email might be correct, if it passes. If it fails, all your MTA can assume is: "well, the email was very likely forwarded"; what else does it have going for it?

If its "DKIM-Signature: ..." header is valid, that it's almost certainly A-OK! So, why do you want all your domain's nicely DKIM-signed emails dropped, just because some recipient decided to use a "forwarding" email address?

That seems silly.

You cannot "strip off and rewrite" headers without destroying the email message's DKIM signature -- which is the primary assurance of authenticity of incoming email!

Also, you are ensuring that emails from your domain can never reach anyone who has a "forwarding" email address (which is anyone managing any significant number of domains). These people use Cloudflare, etc. to manage the MX for these domains, and forwarding incoming email to their central email address (which remains hidden).

You can't get away from email forwarding; its sort of baked into the underlying assumptions of SMTP, which you are unlikely to single-handedly defeat and replace with something better.

In the mean time, email from your domain will appear "broken" to a vast multitude of the world's email-receiving population.

Your domain, not theirs.

As a result, emails from your domain will never reach anyone who has a "forwarding" email address: for example, someone who uses Cloudflare to manage their incoming email for their domains, and forwards it to their real email account.

This is a lot of people.

Why are you OK with that?

You mean the rules that got our bank accounts frozen for giving 50 bucks to our trucker buddies to help them protest for the freedoms we thought we had?

Those “regulations“?

This incident alone has forged grim resolve in many people, including myself, to produce systems to grind TradFi to dust.

I assume you must understand how Bitcoin works, so…

Moving cryptocurrencies around barriers such as custodial exchanges freezing/losing/stealing it is one of the “superpowers” that makes real Crypto valuable.

Any thief dumb enough to deposit their stolen goods onto someone’s exchange deserves to have it frozen — heck, if they deposited it into my wallet, that’s what I wound do!

Explain again how this defeats “code is law”?

Hal’s wife posted a message to his Twitter account. Perhaps she’s recovered some store of old, saved credentials.

Just checked - after 40 years, I have 679 accounts with credentials.

Ridiculous.

Very much looking forward to repatriating my data to my own ownership, instead of outsourcing it to incompetents.