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siwatanejo··on Organic Maps: An open-source maps app that doesn't suck
For the bike use-case OsmAnd might be better, as other replies in this HN entry suggest.
siwatanejo··on An update on the green thread experiment for .NET
I think David Fowler has been the engineer lead for this effort. If you google green threads and .NET you will find relevant content from him.
siwatanejo··on An update on the green thread experiment for .NET
Why? The Twitter thread has also some interesting comment(er)s.
siwatanejo··on Shit life syndrome
You're talking about capital-gains tax generated from the appreciation of cryptocurrency (only if you sell it). There's no tax for sitting on your cryptocurrency alone.
siwatanejo··on Shit life syndrome
What part of my comment did you miss? I already mentioned government-related stuff. Cryptocurrency is not government related.
siwatanejo··on Shit life syndrome
> One day maybe

TBH, I doubt it. Don't get me wrong, I sympathize with your values. Heck, I'm even called 'woke' by most people around me. Yet I understand that in this day in age, thanks to cryptocurrency, money is and will be a private matter. No government will be able to confiscate your wealth, at least to the extent that your wealth doesn't depend on assets related with the government (e.g. real estate is related given that you need to pay taxes to maintain it).

siwatanejo··on New responsibilities
Heh, I remember when Oracle bought Sun too. Suddenly the team working on Linux accessibility (namely the Orca project) vanished.
siwatanejo··on Milk Sad Disclosure
> A well designed brainwallet is perfectly fine and safe

Especially if the brainwallet adds a salt, which is maybe the problem that the previous poster was referring to. Brainwallets that don't add a salt are definitely a risk.

siwatanejo··on Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
I'm still kinda surprised that no novel from Neal have become films or TV shows yet.
siwatanejo··on Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor
Ok, maybe Clover is better? https://www.getapp.com/website-ecommerce-software/a/stripe/c... Although Square/Block has more stars than Clover... mmm https://www.getapp.com/website-ecommerce-software/a/stripe/c...
siwatanejo··on Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor
By "European" you mean it doesn't support American credit cards?
siwatanejo··on Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor
> since you now have two providers that could potentially ban you

But less chances that they both ban you roughly at the same time. So if A bans you, you move to B and start integrating C. Once you have integration with C ready, you then support B&C in production.

If in the future B or C ban you, then do same as above with D.

BTW, what would be your first choice for a $StripeAlternative nowadays?

siwatanejo··on SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says
Ok true, maybe I don't explain it very well; this guy does better than me: https://www.onceinaspecies.com/p/the-crypto-catch-22-why-bit...
siwatanejo··on Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor
Anyone used Block (previously Square) as an alternative to Stripe?
siwatanejo··on SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says
Because plural of the word cryptocurrency is a contradiction. You start to get it, son.
siwatanejo··on SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says
My point is that 10 years down the line I'm sure you could come back to this and understand why you were so wrong. (If you want to save some years of cluelessness, maybe read this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952101 )
siwatanejo··on SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says
Oh no, another one of those tinfoil hats BCashers that think that Blockstream has taken over the BTC-Core team, when it's not the case (see https://s3.cointelegraph.com/storage/uploads/view/acd600e03b... , from this article: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitmex-research-unveils-who-f... ).
siwatanejo··on SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says
No. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952101
siwatanejo··on SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says
That is the silliest point of all, because the concept of fiat currency is inherently associated with its plurality (given that fiat currencies are born out of countries, and there are many countries), but cryptocurrency, as a concept, came to existence to destroy all fiat. And the only way to do that is via 1 single cryptocurrency: the very first, the only one. And this is better understood once you understand this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0300 (which is not activated yet, and might never be; but once you understand its purpose, you will understand this HN thread)
siwatanejo··on SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says
I wish there was a similar feature in HN as the one I get with https://twitter.com/RemindMe_OfThis
siwatanejo··on SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says
It is impossible to create a decentralized cryptocurrency because it has already been created.
siwatanejo··on SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says
Anything other than bitcoin is centralized. (BTW, ETH is PoS so it's inherently centralized despite the number of validators.)
siwatanejo··on SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says
Try archive.is: https://archive.is/https://www.ft.com/content/1f873dd5-df8f-...
siwatanejo··on SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says
Bitcoin is not crypto.
siwatanejo··on SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says
One is decentralized, the other one isn't.
siwatanejo··on Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Token to Launch Monday
Bitcoin is the best bet at doing that. Otherwise, what's your better idea than bitcoin to distribute such a coin in such a way?
siwatanejo··on Apple to Remove Nostr Damus from App Store for Bitcoin Tipping Feature
I didn’t say there aren’t? What I said is that the domains are the only ones that are not scams.
siwatanejo··on Apple to Remove Nostr Damus from App Store for Bitcoin Tipping Feature
If the domain is bought anonymously, the court cannot notify the buyer; not to mention jurisdiction issues. Also, courts cannot reverse blockchain transactions.
siwatanejo··on Apple to Remove Nostr Damus from App Store for Bitcoin Tipping Feature
AFAIU the token is only needed in case you want to participate in the voting of governance events, related to the roadmap of the ENS project. You don't need ENS tokens to register or use ENS domains.

IMO the token might be an illegal security indeed; and if that's the case I hope the SEC crushes them. But in the meantime I'll be using ENS names happily as a user and watch the events with popcorn.

> but I don't see how crypto domain names are any different or changes anything.

It will prevent that a big corp with the court on their side redirect your domain-bought-in-a-complete-legit way to them.

siwatanejo··on Apple to Remove Nostr Damus from App Store for Bitcoin Tipping Feature
Nail on the head, I think ENS/BNS entries are the only NFTs that are not scams, because they have utility.
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