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by Lucadg 7y ago
"Otherwise, Libra can be used "anonymously" just like Bitcoin. You download a client, you generate an identity and then you can receive/send it." Bitcoin can be used anonymously if you avoid KYC on/off ramps an
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by Lucadg 7y ago
Typo, sorry: brought to you by Facebook
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by Lucadg 7y ago
True. This is exactly the problem with non cash transactions. Every single transaction, no matter how small, is recorded forever and shared with several governments and secret services. I never signed up for this. This is why we need cash
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by Lucadg 7y ago
This is the part where they reveal how they plan to negotiate with regulators: "At the core, we believe that a network that helps move more cash transactions — where a lot of illicit activities happen — to a digital network that featur
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by Lucadg 7y ago
True. And that's about attendees quality which is another metric I don't think they optimize for in general. They need to fill the halls first of all.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
He's Satoshi but he lost the private key:)
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by Lucadg 7y ago
I guess it has to do with the fact that when organizing a conference many optimize for speakers attracting crowds rather than content.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
Maybe. But Paypal and all the other fintech are still based on traditional banking with all its regulations and inefficiencies. I doubt Libra, if it's ever actually launched, will escape those.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
On the other hand everytime YT removes something interesting it makes it easier for open alternatives to grow.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
In Florian, the oldest European cafe, you're sitting where Casanova was and you can't expect to pay 1.5 € for a Cappuccino. https://www.caffeflorian.com/en/heritage/venice-triumphantto... In other places
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by Lucadg 7y ago
Agree. Venice may suffer of all the evils in the world but the lack of cars makes up for much of that.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
it's happening to me too a lot lately on Booking.com. The feeling I am left with is "next time I need to book fast without too much searching and checking other sites". I guess this the exact mindset they want their users to
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by Lucadg 7y ago
with money it's usually about: - financial data: who will own it. Governments want access to it first hand. - monetary policy: governments want to be able to define the circulating amount.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
As someone put it: we are picking a huge bear with a stick. We haven't seen anything yet, the war against crypto will be bloody.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
In this brilliant speech there may be an answer: https://youtu.be/wSRN8PUhHX0
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by Lucadg 7y ago
I suppose so. I guess we are coming out of the phase when a nice app was enough to convince that "this is so much better than a bank". We're maturing as customers.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
Exactly. You can't activate it manually. It's activated by the GPS.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
I'd go further: neutral platforms should be the norm. If then someone wants to build a walled garden fine, but there must be a neutral alternative by default.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
don't use their insurance. Recently I was in Istanbul and the insurance didn't activate. Their app did not register me as in Turkey. All permissions were ok, Google Maps worked and I purchased a cappuccino with the Revolut physica
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by Lucadg 7y ago
I used to like them but then this happened: - they froze my account. - they required documentation. - the chat was broken. There was no way to contact them and send the documentation. - I found them in Twitter, someone from Revolut passed m
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by Lucadg 7y ago
The internet and Amazon do not share an important characteristic: openness. I don't need the internet's permission to publish and this makes the tradeoff with chaos acceptable. Basically we trade order over freedom.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
There was a search feature in Google called "discussions" I think. You could find forums. IIRC then same was possible for blogs. Both were very precious and both are gone. There was no money in them I guess. This needs to be fixe
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by Lucadg 7y ago
Thanks I'll check it out!
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by Lucadg 7y ago
We switched from Slack to Discord in our community and I prefer it. It feels faster to me, the Slack app on a Mac got really slow after a while. I wish Discord added Telegram style voice messages and it would be perfect. To be totally hones
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by Lucadg 7y ago
It's amazing as the white paper manages to avoid mentioning Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
Agree. A world currency in the hands of a few corporations is arguably worse than any government issued fiat. It will be more efficient and pervasive in both good and bad ways. [Edit: spelling]
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by Lucadg 7y ago
Thank you. This is my new wallpaper now.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
That's low in Italy where the we are used to 50% taxes.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
You are participating in data collection which contributes to the creation of a surveillance machine which may one day send someone dear to you in jail. Maybe it's far fetched, maybe not but it doesn't seem worth it.
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by Lucadg 7y ago
there is no way Whatsapp would be allowed to use a privacy oriented crypto. All payment are under surveillance, except cash.

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