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zcopleyon Social Cooling (2017)

I see a lot of pseudonyms here, but this is why everyone should revert back to, or start using, pseudonyms online, and take as many privacy-enhancing precautions as reasonably possible.

zcopleyon US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits

Is there a Patriot Act PR?

zcopleyon Unwalled.Garden: souped-up RSS for P2P social apps

Okay, but why RSS over Activity Streams?

zcopleyon Accepting Bitcoin as a Small Business – 4 Years In, No Customers

I think Gresham's Law explains it. I could pay a locksmith in bitcoin, but I would rather keep my bitcoin and pay with USD. Bitcoin is harder to get and can be used for purposes that USD cannot (e.g.: donating to financially censored people and organizations).

zcopleyon Ask HN: How to give cryptocurrency to people in need?

The Steemit community seems to be giving crypto (steem)directly to Venezuelans in need. https://steemit.com/venezuela/@drutter/mission-agua-possible...

zcopleyon Paul Graham is now tweeting

He should use identi.ca :)