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Using bitcoins in Venezuela isn't illegal.

Depends on the situation, if the company is u profitable and near bankcrupty I think not many want to be the replacement ceo...

It is quite low effort, and probably quite a good value.

LOL, numerous listed stocks are way more illiquid than bitcoin.

You have missed nothing. It is just another traditional business implemented "on blockchain", and as usual the blockchain here doesn't add value.

More likely couldn't get a job he liked.

So, do you mean that the less wealthy people don't go for rent-seeking etc?

That's just bollocks. The system rewards innovation, not just that consistently and probably not that much. And people in all income classes behave the same way.

No one has designed the system.

Token is like a bearer share which can be transfered digitally from person to person. Bearer shares are not that common nowadays but I understand that in the past they were quite popular.

Hmm, I used uber in japan when I was traveling there and it worked quite well. What kind of problems were they having?

When you have violence monopoly backing up your business, it is easy to limit competition.

People take care of their cars only to a level where it makes economic sense. Same applies for bikes. There's plenty of badly treated cars everywhere.

Not in that sense. But one open sourcing I was witnessing revealed other sensitive information (credentials), and resulted in a huge losses to the company.

I think people routinely under-estimate how difficult these fiat-onramps can be to operate. Lots of regulation and compliance.

Flood? I'm not that convinced rhat there will be a lot of entrepreneurs willing to go through the sec process for their token.

Numerous tax haven countries? There are like dozens.

I could be intelligent enough to set up sone structures, but I would rather spend my time somehow else than thinking and planning taxes.

What is seen as fair is a very subjective question. I would prefer not calling it "fair share" because taxation is very complex and depends hugely on how good you are at gaming the system.

Because those who have the power will always tax those who haven't, for the simple reason that it is much easier than gainint the money via voluntary exchange.

How about not having turing complete language where it doesn't make sense?

Yeah it makea perfect sense to model your startup after some massive government organisation.

I have been using python2 for veey long time and a lot of software that I've written is made with it and is providing consistingly value to me. I have no idea why these people want to kill the technology that has brought so much value and joy to my life.

If you like python3, great for you. But why do you want to kill python2 if other people are happy with it?

I think it never works like that, pricing is done in other currencies. Also in webshops that accept btc as payment the prices are never in btc.

Gain purchasing power without the central bank constantly taking it away.

How so? What are the problems caused by btc?

While I don't regret it, last experiences with open source probably made me to not do it again. Essentially people seemed to assume that if I release a project, it also means that I'm require to provide free support for it, etc. The attitude from users of the software was depressing - in fact to me it feels that my paying customers are nicer on average.

So if the guy had ran a monero exchange he wouldn't have been arrested, I guess?

There ia a token named "useless ethereum token" which is created as a joke. And people are buying it. I think they habe sold at least 5 grands worth of it.

Also satoshi nakamotos original bitcoin whitepaper wouldn't pass as academic paper. However it still is veey useful at explaining the basic idea behind bitcoin. In this context whitepaper means a little bit different thing than in scientific context.

I believe the flatnessof salaries applies to jobs overall. I would guess most people at HN work in IT where salaries haven't been that flat.