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anandaverma18··on American convenience store chain Sheetz will accept Bitcoin payments
Why it is flagged?
anandaverma18··on “Bitcoin is impossible to shut down” – Cathie Wood
I still don't think it can be stopped even if Govt wants to. Not denying your points but If it can be stopped it would have stopped by now. I will save this thread, we will came back a decade later to check :)
anandaverma18··on “Bitcoin is impossible to shut down” – Cathie Wood
apt.
anandaverma18··on “Bitcoin is impossible to shut down” – Cathie Wood
"Regulators can bar banks and investment funds from touching BTC" this is what they are doing for ages now.

1. India crypto ban is going on for years now 2. China crypto ban has become a joke now, they banned / un banned crypto like 50 times already.

I think what she meant is the very nature of BTC or crypto that even if Govt bans, its just unstoppable. You can still hold it in your wallet and do transactions.

Yes, till you buy your crypto with fiat currency, govt. can trace you, what if you mine / stake or get it by p2p somehow, can govt stop? No they just can't.

At the end, govt should put effort to understand it and regulated instead going completely against it. Its a new tech giving rise to new financial authority that is decentralised and may look scary in the beginning like any other tech for that matter.

And we have seen this happening again and again, Machines will take jobs, AI will take jobs and what not. Let's accept it and build a better future.

anandaverma18··on Monetizing open-source is problematic
Has always been.
anandaverma18··on [dead]
I have the same question. It would be great to know some use cases and more insights into who are among those 1000 developers
anandaverma18··on [dead]
Most of their development is enabled via partnership. In-fact smart contact and new hard fork is result of partnership - https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/05/12/developers-add-musc...
anandaverma18··on China bans financial, payment institutions from cryptocurrency business
This is a mis-informed article. China banned crypto like 100th time.
anandaverma18··on The love hate relationship of India with crypto
yeah, right its a mess. RBI bans it, Supreme court un bans it. RBI warns banks to not engage with crypto people, supreme court says bank do what you feel right.

Then comes Indian Govt. saying - we are still thinking.

anandaverma18··on Ethereum crypto billionaire Vitalik destroyed 40% SHIB coins worth $7B
Binance listed it very early, Coinbase did not and might not even list. Coinbase announced to list DOGE after 6-8 weeks. I don't think there will list SHIB anytime sooner. Maybe a year later if it becomes something.

Doge also started as meme coin, no utility but now slowly becoming a coin of choice for at-least transaction between two parties. who know how DOGE and SHIB turn out in near future.

anandaverma18··on Ethereum crypto billionaire Vitalik destroyed 40% SHIB coins worth $7B
It's a curious case in India. RBI sending side warnings to banks to cut ties with crypto exchanges but Supreme court has not passed any order as such. Supreme court even left the decision to Banks to decide at the moment what they want to do till there is a proper bill which is not yet out because of countries Covid situation.
anandaverma18··on Ethereum crypto billionaire Vitalik destroyed 40% SHIB coins worth $7B
I think, for me it was contextual because I am following the trend for quite some time. But, I agree with you, for a new reader it may seem confusing.
anandaverma18··on Ethereum crypto billionaire Vitalik destroyed 40% SHIB coins worth $7B
Why do you think its confusing?
anandaverma18··on Brave browser disables Google's FLoC tracking system
I think it's a smart trade off. If Brave has to make money while giving you privacy and crapy ads free experience, it has to integrate blockchain and crypto.

So far I have liked what they are doing. The browsing experience is really good if i compare that to Chrome. However, I am also skeptical about the whole crypto stuff and but I think thats because of my limited understanding.

anandaverma18··on I was frustrated with reading Twitter threads until today
Strange, somehow i find it easy to read long treads using this. I am usually lost otherwise :)
anandaverma18··on 3-in-1 Machine for 3D Printing, CNC Carving, Laser Engraving. Is it worth?
I don't know hoe feasible it is to have all 3 in one machine. I would never buy something like that. 3d printing and laser engraving are compatible, but the same cannot be said for CNC carving. The rigidity needed just isn't there, and if it was, it would end up being too slow for a 3d printer. If you want a cnc router, just get one separately. When I bought my CNC router I got a 3d printer tool for it and it was a waste of money. It wasn't very good, and a CNC router is way too slow compared to even the cheapest 3d printers.
anandaverma18··on In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels
and same goes for solar farm as well.
anandaverma18··on Las Vegas vertical farm aims to produce over a million pounds of produce a year
Did not get the whole idea behind www.growcomputer.io. Practically my need is a monitoring and automation suite. Something like autogrow (https://autogrow.com/product-category/hardware/) which can monitor PH/EC/TEMP/HUM and automate nutrient supply.
anandaverma18··on Las Vegas vertical farm aims to produce over a million pounds of produce a year
I certainly agree with you. The idea is indeed great but one has to be very sure about its economies of scale when setting up a vertical farm. I have a small setup in my apartment and it needs a lot of upfront setup cost and recurring monitoring, electricity cost etc.

Vertical farms, if designed in a sustainable way, can be profitable in a long run. Since it can be automated one should automate it completely saving on man power.

Also, understanding of what crop to grow, how to grow and most important how to sell it will make any vertical farm profitable.

anandaverma18··on California is trying to pass a net neutrality bill
Political divisions may be fierce, but there is at least one issue that most Americans agree on: net neutrality.
anandaverma18··on Why in Hong Kong people choose to sleep at McDonald's instead of going home
Is it real? I never saw one doing that. If its real then I know why. Rooms in Hong Kong are like matchbox size and smelly. McD is a better place to sleep I guess.
anandaverma18··on Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
This utility is nice. Let me try out and save some time.