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Thank you. This is why I like Emacs so much, been using it for about a decade now and I still get to discover amazing stuff like this.

The reason I use Protonmail is to stay far as possible from Google (gmail), this is highly disappointing.

Anarchists are right. F#ck these governments and corporations destroying the earth and trying to shape reality.

I like this, the constructs in the ref card look really powerful, it looks like a batteries included language. Downloading it now to take it for a spin.

Edit: Nevermind Beads only works on Windows and Mac, It needs Wine to work on Linux.

Can Immudb work in a decentralized network while remaining secure from attacks in such networks or is Immudb meant for centralized systems if so I think you cannot compare it to Blockchains. Maybe a better comparison is Git.

Does immudb offer mechanisms for distributed consensus, because that is one of the top features in blockchains, they do this while remaining P2P.

That is because you are clearly a Computer person. The average person has their entire digital life owned by Google.

> Is there even a single decentralized app that is mainstream?

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>So why even copy the chain first he could just start asking for the hash of the whole thing and if they all have the same there is no point to copy the chain.

Well if I control enough nodes I can send you fake hashes (51% attack).

Imagine a peer goes offline and stuff happens on the network while its offline, when the peer goes back online what state does it follow, remember that it is a decentralized network what peer does it trust? This is where the chain of verifiable transactions come in. Also with this setup it is kind of easy to prevent double spending.

> BTW cash does not have a recorded Tx history

Sorta... The central banks know every coin that has been created and notes that have been printed. When you fill in your Tax forms you are creating this Tx history manually.

Thank you for the reply. I think you misread my comment, I never said 'we don't trust the banks', I wrote that we invented banks to act as third party arbitrators because we (humans) don't trust each other.

But with fiat there is no trust between the people, the trust is provided by the banks, they act as the arbitrators because humans cannot trust each other. When we used to barter we stopped because it was sometimes unfair (convert bread to chickens?) so we invented money (gold) which is natural occurring and rare so we trust it more. Later on we invented banks which are a third party we use them as arbitrators because we don't trust each other. Now we invented blockchains (distributed ledgers) so we can see all the changes being made on the ledger because we don't trust each other.

I never really understood this things. Thank you for clearing this up.

- Fuels research for applied cryptography (example Zero knowledge cryptography) and privacy technologies.

- Pressures existing systems (Fiat, Paypal ...) to improve and keep up.

- Gives options to people living in censored governments

- Shows us that one of our most foundational systems (Money) can be re-engineered using modern tech and experience of studying what happened in the past.

This is a deeply philosophical issue. Ideas can be encoded in text there are laws that protect ideas, but then there is rights such as free speech which are meant to protect what we say and how we express ourselves. From a socialism perspective ideas should belong to everyone, capitalism would say an individual has the right to own an idea from the set of all ideas if they discovered it, or own some text (code) from the set of all possible text.

Hmm, I use Firefox (dev edition) on Linux and the video is playing with no problem

When Satoshi returns she saves the day.

The problem is that success in Silicon Valley means how much money you can make from a product and not about how the product improves the lives of the users in a balanced and morally acceptable way. Is it really successful to disregard user privacy and capitalize on their lack of knowledge, or to build unsustainable tech on top of already unsustainable tech rather then fixing the real issues.

- Pseudonymous Transactions / Privacy

- Multiple Accounts

- International Transfers

- Customization (smart contracts)

- Micro Payments / Internet money

- Low entry (Phone, internet)

- Peer 2 Peer and decentralized

- Free Software

Short list:

- Pseudonymous Transactions - Multiple Accounts - International Transfers - Customization (smart contracts) - Micro Payments / Internet money - Privacy - Low entry (Phone, internet) - Peer 2 Peer and decentralized - Free Software - Programmable

> ...once Ethereum completes the switch to PoS

This is starting to sound like a chorus.