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It is difficult for the valuation. It might not be worth the cost, especially considering that large amount of shares are held by early investors and founder.

xmlyon The Fed released a paper outlining pros and cons of a “digital dollar”

FDIC has a limit 250K.

xmlyon The Fed released a paper outlining pros and cons of a “digital dollar”

The bank can bankrupt. So your money in bank has credit risk and liquidity risk. But central bank(federal reserve) can "print" dollar, so they will never bankrupt, hence your CBDC has no credit risk or liquidity risk.

However, it puts the central bank being the only bank that handles the clearance/settlement. So it has higher political risk for holders. For example, you can store your dollar bills into a bank which does not follow the order from US government. But if you have CBDC, the federal reserve can simply freeze your balance.

xmlyon Google Search Is Dying

Everything is slowly decaying(dying/chaosing) including everyone's body and the whole universe, that is called Second law of thermodynamics.

xmlyon Ethereum is a dark forest (2020)

Blockchains are just tools. We should focus use cases to choose different types of blockchains. Layer1, Layer 2, sidechains, private chains can be combined together to solve the problem.

xmlyon Ethereum is a dark forest (2020)

Ethereum Layer1 should be only for storing meta data and provide trust and arbitration when necessary.

xmlyon WebVM: Server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser

How about the network stack? Is the VM can talk with other VMs from other browsers.

xmlyon Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite

I do not understand this conclusion: "Data on the web will only be "semantic" if that is the default, and with this technique it will be."

Why would it be semantic?