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Have to realize he is criticizing his own industry and clients for playing dirty when he known China is going to beat them easily when it enters the market. He doesn't care about Tesla. They don't pay him. It's Ford and Chrysler and his clients that he wants to wake up

It's amazing how broken of a system it is. The theory is ok but I today's world they don't work. Change the time scale to 10 years at least. Or require active use even better

It's crazy to think of the economic damage that patents cause

Space tourist feels an odd label for the pilot Dr. Proctor

Of course. Cartels are always about reducing competition. Even if a cartel between countries like OPEC or this agreement. Irland just killed the competition

People don't know how to judge evidence. So they think circumstantial evidence has no weight

It does when you consider EVs and fossil fuel plants efficiency. It's less CO2 emissions to use electric vehicles. Combustion engines even nowadays I only get around 30% efficiency. That's not close to what a power plant gets

Companies are already transitioning to cobalt free batteries https://www.electrive.com/2021/07/23/svolt-launches-producti...

Ok before I was locked out of my account for changing phone numbers they only had SMS

Agree. Although I would like coinbase to move away from SMS 2fa

This is a solved problem since now you can ask for a small bitcoin payment over the lightning network. No way to game that. Deployed it on our group chat and 100% stopped all spam.

It is the only definition of blockchain that matches it's use. Where they copied the word from, the bitcoin datastructure, is unrelated

The rebranding of MySQL as blockchain was a brilliant move for sales. Bit torrent is decentralized and it doesn't use "blockchain". "Blockchain" only works for money and nothing else

Crypto are the projects created to market themselves as decentralised bitcoin clones. They are projects controlled by a small group of insiders that run pump and dump and wash trading scams.

People that call bitcoin "crypto" are likely to describe bitcoin technology incorrectly

Better to let the HK police kick the teeth in of a teenager shouting for democracy than you dear intervene is the message being sent by the CCP here

https://youtu.be/q0EQxGgqFRw

Ok so we agree blockchain and blockchain are different. Also private blockchain would be a 3rd definition as that's another nonsense word that people use

But then not the same because one as you say is just a datastructure that has existed already and uses standard computer science constructions. But the data structure is also revolutionary? That's a contradiction. So the other blockchain is not a datastructure but a separate unrelated concept

Blockchain is not the same as a blockchain. Blockchain is a hashed data structure from bitcoin. While "blockchain technology" is used in completely different context. The two and not related technically

Blockchain does not equal bitcoin which created scarce money that can't be inflated which has value

Outside of money you don't need scarcity

Not transparent and market manipulation change the situation entirely. And many govt agree and will happily put you in prison

Ethereum delegated some control to miners for within block trading which isn't decentralised. Between block trading is possible but you'd have to wait 10mins for a trade

They are pseudo decentralised. They have a point of failure. Take down the operator and the exchange is gone. Happened before with an ethereum exchange. Ethereum delegated some control to miners which isn't decentralised

You can't rig an auction. That's illegal. eBay can't trade in it's own items to get the prices higher

Criminals and scammers are not normally the sensitive types

I was agreeing with you until you said fantastic technology. Crypto has always involved outrageous fraudulent claims about the technology in its sales pitches. The technology they sell does not exist. Decentralised trading is still incomplete research. It's vaporware

Can eBay pump up the price of it's own items with fake trading bots? No that's fraud. There are laws around auctions and trading. I'm guessing it's illegal

For the last 7 years I ask people if they can define blockchain after using the word. Never got an answer. I'm not talking about the real meaning of the word as a hashed data structure but the "blockchain technology" indefinable use

I assume by crypto OP meant cryptography

Cryptography will always be important in computer science