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Handgemenge··on 1. August Bitcoin will probably hardfork
> Adding transaction capabilities is a problem since ultimately it destabilizes the trust for it. Every time people need to change the code they'll be a danger of a fork which destroys a little bit of a trust.

Block Chain technology and especially Bitcoin is by far not yet mature after 8 years. Already in the past, there have been events which have put the trust of the investors heavily burdened without ultimately destroying it. A chain split will be just another challenge.

Handgemenge··on 1. August Bitcoin will probably hardfork
> Bitcoin will never be the cash replacement that people want it to be. Just the fact that it has a limited number of coins makes it a problem.

There will in fact never be more than 21 million bitcoin. But these are already 2100 trillion Satoshi today. This divisibility can be expanded in the future.

Handgemenge··on TFS: A file system built for performance, space efficiency, and scalability
The interplanetary file system [1] comes to mind. Not direct comparable to TFS, but its feature set could inspire a local file system, too:

- historic versioning (like in git)

- deduplication

- authenticity through cryptographic hashing like in block chain

- distributed delivery like bit torrent

I don't think, that we need another ZFS or btrfs competitor. Just my 2 cent.

[1] https://ipfs.io/

Handgemenge··on Bad SSL
https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html comes to mind
Handgemenge··on BEER domain names are being released today
After several attempts I think there is no free domain. Or maybe the test is just broken ...