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Don’t use the company device for personal use. It’s just not appropriate, for so many reasons.

Underrated comment :)

That's absolutely a valid reason. All my static sites are not generating income and don't need support. I've also got my own backups, so if GH decides I shouldn't be there I'm not losing much. If a site is important to your business then support is certainly more critical.

Thanks for the very valid counterpoint!

Ya, I'm trying to understand what the downside to github pages is compared to this strategy. Can anybody elaborate on what I might be missing?

Gerald Cotten next maybe?

No record of it? That’s a bit presumptuous

In the wake of new attempts to "ban encryption", I'd recommend reading Crypto by Steven Levy (2001).

https://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/crypto

Agreed. That's my biggest concern with any product that promises security and privacy. They're great features to put on a product that offers neither.

I feel like funding would be easy, but who would you trust being behind such an initiative though?

I sincerely recommend reading the book Crypto if this topic interests you. This isn’t the first time we’ve been here, and it won’t be the last, but Crypto does an excellent job going through some of the history and the absurdity of the idea.

https://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/crypto

This section was super disappointing. It sounds more like iTunes is being rebranded to Music since it’s still going to be the hub for managing iOS devices. What exactly is changing here other than the name?

Apple Music certainly has the most screen real estate now, but I was still able to find the "Open in Deezer" within a freshly updated Shazam.

Rock climbing is a really unique mesh of physical activity, community, and puzzle solving. If you find the thought of gyms boring but want to start getting some exercise, I'd definitely suggest trying it out.

I have a couple small businesses on it for nothing other than convenience. I clicked this hoping for a pleasant surprise but instead got an expected reality. No problem, email migration is one of the easiest out there (as long as you aren’t to tangled in their other services) and I find myself using clients more than their web interface anymore so much of the gmail advantage is non-existent.

Was satellite communication the goal of blockstream all along or did a random thought/opportunity come around at some point over the last couple years and it appeared like a good pivot?

Sure, downvote me because I was a bit mean sounding, or maybe because you are sick of hearing about Bitcoin. I feel like it's a fair question though. To say that Bitcoin will be remembered more like beanie babies and baseball cards, rather than the dot com bubble, sounds absurd to me.

You have the worlds largest tech companies, banks (the IMF!), the Big Four advisory firms, top lawyers around the world, governments at all levels, and just some incredibly active open source communities, all working with this technology. Why belittle it like what was done in that comment? Can't we at least agree that after ten years, Bitcoin has been an experiment worthy of its own story rather than being lumped on either side of "beanie babies or baseball cards as opposed to the dot com bubble"

Most exchanges that have coins other than Bitcoin use Altcoin/Bitcoin pairs. So you're not trading in relation to the US Dollar, you're trading in relation to Bitcoin.

For a trader, that means that to them 1 ETH is currently worth 0.02678663 BTC. The USD price of Bitcoin doesn't come into play here. So, if Bitcoin goes down, the relation to ETH means that it follows, since 1 ETH is still worth 0.02678663 BTC.

Edit: Why would they do this? A number of reasons, the biggest two being habit and volume.

Most coins are traded on networks that don't have fiat currencies, so they had to choose a cryptocurrency base. Also, many traders in the realm started out with Bitcoin, and love Bitcoin, and want more Bitcoin. So they don't care if a trade gets them USD, they just want to grow their BTC holdings.

Finally, with trading, volume is very important - you want as much being offered for sale as possible. If you split up every order book (btc/eth, xrp/eth, ltc/eth, usd/eth, xrp/ltc, xrp/usd, ltc/btc, etc etc) then the volume of each 'book' is divided amongst the options, making it harder to move larger amounts from one to the other.

Totally fair comment. The author does admit that they themselves are still holding, so an addition to the obituaries isn't accurate. I think the millennial part just frustrated me.

Hey buddy, if you feel that investing in cryptocurrencies is too risky, and it may harm you finances and future, you should really find safer investments to consider. I would talk to a professional about it, perhaps with your local bank.

Investments aside, you should really try to get your hands on some Bitcoin testnet coins and play around. Alternatively, something like Defcoin (http://defcoin-ng.org/) is intentionally worthless and great for experimenting. It's neat stuff and helps you appreciate the technology, as well as appreciate the currency shortcomings that require smart people to try and fix.

Many of us talk about how this has happened and will happened again not because we want you to invest, but because it's old news and articles like this are super boring. We have spent time working with the technology and community and see value in it. Value you may not see without wanting to go deeper, but value that is real and exciting.

"Millennials, like generations before them, just got a painful lesson about speculation." and yet the first tweet is from McAfee... I know life has been hard to him but that is one very aged Millennial.

Just add this bad article to the 300+ Bitcoin Obituaries, and the even more writings that try to point out the hard lesson learned by us idiot Millennials.

A reminder that some Millennials are almost 40 now, we were the first generation to grow up with the internet, and we lived through things like the dot com bubble and the 2008 housing crisis. What could we possibly know about technology and money? What could we possibly desire to see possible change and improvement in?

Malicious intent is absolutely a possibility but I think you'd be surprised at the amount of exchanges running off the regular consumer wallets (such as bitcoind and altcoin equivalents). These pieces of software are not meant to support the massive amount of transactions that exchanges see and do actually need quite a bit of maintenance to keep operating well. The industry is still in an infancy stage and the tools we are all using tends to reflect that more than anything.

I had the pleasure of meeting Amber at a conference recently and am not surprised she is going out on her own. With her knowledge and contact list, I'd expect her next venture to be a success.

This has been a common occurrence across many of the large classic players of the financial space. Keeping talent is difficult when a startup can be substantially more agile and effective. I know this isn't unique to the blockchain space, but it is certainly very prevalent. Potentially due to the fact that many leaders in the space were early investors in the technology too and a stable salary isn't top of mind compared to freedom and a challenge.

I assumed it was mostly culture within my company and industry, but then an article was posted about how there is a major loss in productivity across the nation so I thought I'd share a small example that I have witnessed and see if others notice the same.

edit: for what it's worth, I use to be Canadian focused in my role, and this was not an issue. Then I became more globally focused and it became instantly a problem, but consistently only in America. Not in Europe, not in Asia, Canada still mostly chill, but America wants to have a call to discuss.

Yes and no. It's generalizing sure, but it's doing so based on my own experience. I have no doubt that there are some Canadian organizations that have adopted this strategy, I just haven't seen it nearly as bad myself.

Take my original post with a grain of unproductive salt.

That's ok, can we re-schedule, by which I mean leave it open ended so that you spend the day with a gentle dread in your heart, eyeing the phone with anxiety throughout, and second guessing bathroom/lunch breaks?

tks.

Together, we can fix this. Let's have a call to discuss tomorrow 8am.

As a Canadian, the thing that always astonishes me about working with my American counterparts is how many calls you want to have, and how often the topics discussed are the exact same points as the previous calls.

No agenda? No Call.

Looks great! I'm excited to try this out

This is because governing bodies don't want to put a price on water. Yes, there needs to be another way to ensure Nestle is not taking advantage of natural resources, but setting a precedent for charging for water isn't a great option either.

Sounds like a case of... titlemania...

Edit: Sorry, you're all right. There wasn't any titlemania after all.

I want this to be awesome... but I'm also terrified of applications that tell me they are secure with no proof. Can you provide some additional information to quell my fears?

Perhaps information on a third party auditor?