I think it's common for non-neurotypical folks to struggle with sarcasm and irony. Even for neurotypicals, it can go over your head because it's hard to tell tone from a text.
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Doesn't guarantee that my fingernail will win a shooting war.
Buy bitcoin.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210116135412/https://taaalk.co...
Eth competing against USD. Bitcoin competing against USD and Gold.
Bitcoin and Eth are also both competing against turkish lira, Tide pods, and zibwawean mortgage bonds.
But only one competes with gold.
But this is neither a fair nor an interesting competition.
Life span of fiat currencies is usually decades.
Bitcoin will be fine.
https://standardcrypto.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/the-censorsh...
ETH is competing against USD, not against BTC.
Bitcoin is competing against gold.
Different races. different goals.
Different risks.
The "your papers please" argument. It's true. If you live in a world where you are compelled to present an identity for any financial transaction, then there is no need for bitcoin, to prevent double spending.
https://taaalk.co/t/bitcoin-maxima-other-crypto-things
Transactions need to be expensive, like the guy you were replying to said. It is beyond obvious.
F.
https://standardcrypto.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/a16z-struggl...
but anyway, I would say more like 4chan with killfiles.
1) digitally signed (can be by anonymous identity)
2) content is id-filterable by id, by user agents (aka browsers + user controlled software), easily enough, following a reasonable man test. so users can moderate their own content following blacklists and whitelists, if they want. law enforcement and gov can of course have their own white and blacklists.
3) you take illegal content down when notified with reasonable latency period. This can be automated for mom and pops with limited resoures, if you follow illegal content blacklists maintained by gov. If someone wants to fight the blacklist, ok, the eff can go to court, supreme court if necessary. This isn't going to happen as long as black lists aren't abused.
This puts your private blog on the same footing as social media giants. Everybody follows the same rules. If government blacklist is too aggressive, society debate can go to there, where it should be. Sue the government, in court, for doing black lists too aggressively. Mom and pop isps and blog owners aren't at risk.
This also forces social media giants to make their sites content filterable by user agents.
They call it a user agent for a reason...
There doesn't have to be a government blacklist for this to work, either. I'm just saying there could be. And if there was, this should be the focus of litigation, not 230.
IE, if the blacklist was truly used only for child porn, I don't think this would go to court. But government and "powers that be" can't hide behind social media giants for censorship enforcement. They make themselves directly responsible, and it better be in a way that society finds acceptable.
Emojipaste is broken so… emoji face with rolling eyes…."
https://standardcrypto.wordpress.com/2020/07/30/whiny-academ...
"Well… then don’t buy bitcoin Stephen! Nobody is forcing you to hodl bitcoin. Unlike all those people in argentina and tin pot places where you can’t freely convert the currency, and it is jail time if you try.
I roll my emoji eyes…"
Lightning channels are 2 end points, p2p.
Lightning routes are a sequence of lightning channels. Routes are also 2 end points, also p2p. No trusted is required for intermediaries.
Every internet packet, unless it is you to your lan router, passes through many intermediaries. I have no idea how ethereum state channels work, but I assume they route using tcp/ip, and statechannel team understands this as p2p.
So anyway, lightning is p2p.
Cheers.
https://standardcrypto.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/a16z-struggl...
so far block size increase has not been necessary. if hyperbitcoinization occurs and there is a bottleneck with lightning, block size increase is ok.
with lightning factories this may never be necessary.
if it is, it is.
( A16Z struggles to earn passing grade in crypto fund II “learn by doing” project )
finally, a sane solution for micropayments for content.
you can see a sort of proof of concept (pre-lsat, but using lightning) on yalls.org and a few other similar toe in the water type sites.
but I think if LSAT gets traction it has the potential to turn the content industry upside down.
it is still very very early days.
Thank you for writing to me to share your concerns about law enforcement access to encrypted communications. I appreciate the time you took to write, and I welcome the opportunity to respond.
I understand you are opposed to the “Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act of 2020” (S. 3398), which I introduced with Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) on March 5, 2020. You may be interested to know that the Senate Judiciary Committee—of which I am Ranking Member—held a hearing on the “EARN IT Act” on March 11, 2020. If you would like to watch the full hearing or read the testimonies given by the hearing witnesses, I encourage you to visit the following website: https://sen.gov/53RV.
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