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Is the premise here that a conspiracy has never taken place in history?

Imagine saying something so utterly subjective in such a definitive way

Nah, what's incredibly cruel is forcing people to spend their last months in extreme pain and/or enduring severe mental illness

This article would have benefited greatly from some screenshots.

There are a few solutions, and reputation is a good one. Here's another: verifiable identities. Zero Knowledge proofs and crypto/blockchains can provide ways to authenticate actual people without revealing who they are.

This has the potential to be a major problem for the upcoming merge. If OFAC regulations hit major public companies like Coinbase & LIDO etc., they may start censoring transaction at the base layer (not in a DAPP). And given that they represent the majority of stake currently, ETH would effectively no longer be a decentralized project.

How so?

But isn't the request for a cross platform standard? Sure Apple got their own internal standard right, but the experience across platforms still matters.

Title is misleading. The article basically covers specific cases where modals aren't a great solution, but the title suggests they are NEVER useful. Clickbaity if you ask me.

Because the legacy banking system will just take their money. Decentralized systems are not only more transparent, they are also more inclusive. But note- dollars are far and away the largest medium of exchange for criminals. So if you want to get into that comparison, feel free.

Tokenomics are generally aggregated and published by third party organizations for almost every project.

Blockchain analytics are also big business.

My point stands- it's hard to hide things on an open source, decentralized blockchain.

Ponzi's rely on deception, but crypto projects are the complete opposite- they are entirely public. Literally every transaction is public. So the entire premise/title of this article is nonsense.

Also the shade thrown at Cardano is ridiculous. They write "Their focus on convincing YouTube influencers to promote Cardano.." But the truth is the opposite. Cardano relies on thousands of validators to secure the network, who in turn are incentivized to market themselves. So it's not that YouTube influencers were convinced to do anything- it's highly technical people that were convinced to market the network. Big difference, and actually quite smart.

For anyone that does decide to learn Haskell, you can easily get a job afterwards working on the Cardano blockchain. Smart contract devs are in high demand, and Cardano uses a variant of Haskell that is relatively unique to the space.

Life is certainly nuanced, but complexity is more often leveraged to justify corruption than it is the cause of failure.

I highly doubt they were bribed by Bitcoin miners. What's more likely is that BTC is emerging as a global store of value asset, and with the additional advantage that the supply of BTC is not entirely controlled by exploitative global central banking apparatus. Do some googling on what the IMF has done to small countries with their loans, and what happens to small countries when their currency is manipulated.

"Because Ethereum transactions are programs, the halting problem means that it isn't possible to accurately predict the resources needed to execute them."

Cardano fixes this with deterministic execution and fees.

Apparently it's not just OnlyFans and GoFundMe that like punching themselves in the nads. Mind boggling how these businesses make these decisions. Even if the strategy is to pivot, bungling the PR on this scale is just awful.

Exactly. And I'd add one note- many businesses can't afford a "subscription" for thousands of dollars a month.

Let me translate your comment:

1 - The young people are just annoying and don't know anything 2 - Nothing will ever change 3 - Nothing will ever change

Needless to say, I disagree with you. Life is constantly changing, and in a few years, likely you will be able to buy almost anything with crypto.

This essay overlooks the most likely path to life extension, which is our ability to snapshot the brain's electrical/chemical storage. Always back up your data! The speed of progress in computing is fast outpacing medical research, and at the end of the day, the human brain is just a computer of sorts. Historically it's been orders of magnitude too complex to understand, but the gap is closing fast.

Obviously this raises a million different questions, such as what to do exactly with the data, and whether it can exist outside it's biological substrates.

But the concept of life as data is worth noting in any conversation about the human lifespan.

That would make for a good Chrome plugin- a super simple display of the published date and author and some other basic info.

Counterpoint- this was yet another tired critique of Bitcoin. How many of these smug, superficial boomer oriented rants must we endure?

It's easy to attend conferences and mock people. Meanwhile BTC is playing a meaningful role in the realpolitik you mention, and quickly integrating into the entire banking system. You say BTC has no connection to the real world, as if the Canadian truckers didn't just get their accounts frozen, and cutting Russia off from SWIFT wasn't being discussed. How do you maintain that view in the face of such events?

Detailed breakdown here: https://twitter.com/kelvinfichter/status/1489041221947375616

So the entire Crypto space is a "lawless wasteland" just because some folks are trying to manipulate the markets?

Gonna need a bit better argument to buy that.

So basically the tech is still a few years away from being cost effective and user friendly.

Satoshi has veto power over the entire crypto space?

Uhhhhhhhhhhh no.

Which claim? Our money is centralized via the Fed. Our information is centralized via corporate media. Our politics are centralized via Oligarchy.

These systems act to divide and conquer us, sapping our power. By switching to decentralized systems, we will be reconnected and rediscover our power. It's already happening via sites like this, crypto, etc.

Crowd-sourced content + crowd-sourced voting on visibility.

It's not perfectly decentralized of course, running on a server and centralized administration, but the general structure of the data flow is many to many.

Neither society nor facebook is to blame. The three foundational systems of our lives have been centralized and corrupted: money, information, politics. These systems are to blame, and the answer is decentralized systems. Decentralized money (Crypto), decentralized information (like HN), and decentralized voting (DAO's). Once we start using healthy systems, we'll get our power back and be able to fix our problems.

This is exactly right. Too many folks assume PoW is more decentralized because it's not tied to money, but what's the difference if mining requires money? As you note, PoS lowers the barrier to entry and actually creates a more egalitarian system, despite with Bitcoin maximalists think.