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For anyone who wants to give LineageOS a try but can't/won't figure out how to jailbreak your phone to install it, check out https://privatephoneshop.com/

They have a decent selection of relatively modern phones. They will sell you a phone with LineageOS and microG pre-installed ( CalyxOS or GrapheneOS also ). They offer a super smooth buying experience and they are also quick to ship.

I've purchased two phones from them and both have exceeded my expectations. Another reason I like them is because the owners put out a lot of excellent content on keeping good privacy practices and combating invasive advertising.

My only complaint is that I wish they offered more phone models. It's a small thing though. I'm just happy they're available in the USA where it's becoming nearly impossible to purchase a smartphone that doesn't have a carrier-enforced restriction on flashing the bootloader.

I was under the impression that one of the conditions to being listed in the Play Store was that all in-app payments had to go through Google. Am I wrong about that?

This type of subtle corporate Newspeak enrages me. It's corporate gaslighting and I wish I understood it's intended goal. For me, the only thing it achieves is solidifying my resolve to end business with the offending company while simultaneously resenting the support agent who's willing to lie to strangers for money.

> The worst thing a centralized server can do in Lightning is refuse to route your transactions.

This is called censorship, the very thing Bitcoin was created to circumvent.

It's an especially big problem given the fact that the vast majority of lightning payments are routed through lightning nodes operated by centralized cryptocurrency exchanges. Most of the remaining nodes on the lightning network are unreliable due to shortcomings in the lightning protocol surrounding state management, node connectivity, and inbound/outbound liquidity. That's not even getting into the abysmal incentive structure node operators face.

Here's an example of an electricity-free blockchain : http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and...

"Locking you up" would cost a hell of a lot more money than simply updating your `isBlacklisted` field in a database entry. The latter could be done for every citizen at negligible cost.

As if the FISA courts wouldn't be employed to circumvent any constraints placed on the system by congress.

It's not his own money he's spending on these lawsuits. He is being bankrolled by a criminal billionaire gambling mogul.

It's an investment being made in order to get access to all of Satoshi's coins on all the bitcoin chains. Those coins are valued very conservatively at no less than 32 billion usd.

The leading theory is that Satoshi is dead. Some think it was Hal Finney. Some think it was Dave Kleiman, the brother of the woman Craig just got out of a lawsuit with.

A more realistic goal is probably to get the court's blessing to authorize nchain, who maintain the only BSV client (therefore the entire blockchain) , to send Satoshi's BSV coins to Craig.

This seems much easier to achieve and allows him to steal coins from all BSV holders without taking from any one BSV holder in particular. Coins previously thought lost would be reintroduced, effectively inflating the coin's supply.

That's a quick and easy ~ $83M based on today's BSV price and a conservative estimate of the number of coins held by satoshi.

This is one of my favorite artists! It's so great to see him referenced here!

The sentence sounded weird to me too and I interpreted it as a non-native english speaker simply saying their friends drank alcohol but where not alcoholics. OP should probably clarify.

If neither you or your friends can have fun without alcohol, you probably need a new set of friends as well as a therapist to talk through that issue.

If you're instead asking what other illicit substance you can substitute alcohol for while your friends are all drinking, that's different.

My favorite for that is MDMA. It's an empathogen so it helps you open up in conversations and form deeper connections with people. It's also an amphetamine so you'll be able to stay awake and keep up with your friends as they do the drunk thing.

MDMA should be a substitute for drinking. Not a supplement to it. It also comes with it's own set of risks and constraints that you should get intimately familiar with if you want to do it with any regularity.

> It’s weird to me they approve futures based ETFs ...

When your friends want to buy in low, you let big money short the hell out it.

Replace the words "facial recognition software" with "location data", a comparable commodity in this context, then it's immediately clear what would go wrong. See https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/its-time-google-resist...

If the bureaucratic obstacles for using a technology are so high that only very well funded companies can overcome them, then those companies effectively form a cartel with the state in the use and abuse of those technologies.

If citizens had stronger protections against the application of the third-party doctrine in the US, we might have less to fear. Currently though, the greatest oppressor of personal freedoms through technology is the United States Government. They can and will use "guidelines and potential liabilities" to weaponize new technology while making it next to impossible to counter the threat.

I came across Limor's Minty MP3 player when I was young, broke, and looking for an open alternative to an ipod. It was back before Adafruit existed as a web store. Minty was just an open PCB design hosted on a single page with a parts list and a link to a forum where people would help each other source parts and assemble the thing.

I have very fond memories of this because it changed the trajectory of my life. It showed me how powerful a tool the internet could be for organizing people around ideas, many of which sought to improve people's lives through free and open technology.

The other thing this experience did was to make me feel safe tinkering with hardware and electronic circuits. Consumer devices had felt like mystical black boxes that could never be understood, much less re-created by me. After Minty, I was empowered to take things apart and learn how they worked. I grew an appetite for technical knowledge that hasn't slowed down to this day.

EDIT: Found a capture. It's slightly different than I remember it but it's a nice little snapshot of Adafruit's origin story.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050215023236/http://web.media....

Simply calling a thing you don't like "a scam" is lazy and unproductive. If you have an argument to make against Godaddy (there are plenty to be made), please do so.

Anything requiring my phone number or a binary that runs on my phone is a deal breaker for me. It has massive privacy implications.

We desperately need to have better MFA options if we're going to require it from users.

> by that time domains and DNS worked pretty much like today.

And by then it was too late. It was already broken beyond repair.

It kind of astounds me that so many people are willing to use a product who's UI so blatently and unapologetically violates it's users consent. I would have immediately run for the hills.

This list fails to include the biggest, most important hack. The one where they stole the BTC ticker:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3h9cq4/its_time_fo...

It is worth noting that one year in crypto is probably equal to 10 years in most other industries. At least with respect to the rate of technological and intra-cultural changes.

They know why they are being sued. This is just a cry for help from pro-crypto consumers and crypto-adjacent business for whom coinbase has been paving the way.

> Honestly, I'm not a big one for regulation, but I think those TVs should have a large print notification somewhere that says they're spying on you

The warning should replace all the branding on the outside of the package, exactly like tobacco products in Europe.

It's worse. At least the Fed is checked to some degree by Congress.

Tether is outside of the control of any goverment. It's just another faceless shell company.

A thousand times this

> I feel like a lot of people in this thread are forgetting he likely killed his neighbor in 2012 and has been on the run since.

In America, we're supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty. It's a shame it really only takes an accusation.

> taproot, which recently locked in, reduces the space needed to represent complex contracts.

Complex contracts? Are you joking? What kind of complex contracts do you think can be done on BTC? Their scripting language and capabilities has been neutered just like their blocksize. Good luck writing a useful contract on BTC.

Oh good, BTC can finally support Schnorr signatures, a feature that been available on BCH for years now. A feature that is useless until wallet developers add Schnorr signing functionality.

Taproot is the update we get after ten years of the BTC devs doing nothing except gaslighting users about the protocol's scalability? All that momentum wasted.

There has been great progress in scaling on just about every other cryptocurrency, including many flavours of bitcoin. BTC is the only coin who finds scaling too difficult.