592 karma · joined December 20, 2019
Rust programmers use unsafe escape hatches all the time BTW.
...hence the ads? How would competitors be immune to the need to pay the bills?
Multiprocess applications, and especially multiprocess applications with really big discardable caches, are extremely difficult to compare apples-to-apples.
Active traders of Bitcoin have to track the bases of their lots so that they can pay taxes on each sale.
Don't kid yourself, any other commercially successful VOD platform will have the exact same problem. A startup might squeak by under the radar for a while, but as soon as it gets critical mass, it won't be long before it gets encumbered by all this regulatory "fun".
Tether has become the proverbial suitcase of IOUs. The GP is outraged about the government stealing money through inflation, when the Tether printing press has been merrily siphoning actual USD out of the markets, a half billion at a time.
Personally I'd rather miners use ASICs for their hash collision wankery and leave the consumer markets alone. But I'd really like to see miners cease to exist because crypto comes with a huge environmental cost and so many externalities.