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Governments are going to be scammed out of trillions of dollars trying to instantiate digital currencies, and tax payers are going to have to foot the bill. I really hope sanity prevails before that happens.

Just because you have a digital currency, doesn't mean it has to be decentralized.

In fact, if you have a national currency, you would want it to be centralized.

I never knew Twitter did that with the URL. The profile name doesn't matter.

https://twitter.com/thispartdoesntmatter/status/164729061940...

Most sites are like that, eg reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/notthesub/comments/haucpf/notthetit...

What's weirder is that retweets get an ID themselves, which point to the same tweet.

Stack Overflow too. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/cthulhu-asdfghjk...

The commentary is more interesting than the title suggests.

Digital prison incoming.

Tether is not a stable coin