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by c01n 5y ago
> It's burning a massive amount of resources and that is just increasing Do you own a car? Have you ever used plastic? How much resources are burned by banks? > I don't have the stats but I imagine the exponential growth in
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by c01n 5y ago
> What we especially need to stress to regulators... Lol. Talking like that obviously shows that cryptocurrencies are not for you. This tech has cypherpunk and crypto-anarchy roots, regulators/governments are not the intended users
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by c01n 5y ago
Thank you. This is why I like Emacs so much, been using it for about a decade now and I still get to discover amazing stuff like this.
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by c01n 5y ago
The reason I use Protonmail is to stay far as possible from Google (gmail), this is highly disappointing.
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by c01n 5y ago
Anarchists are right. F#ck these governments and corporations destroying the earth and trying to shape reality.
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by c01n 5y ago
I like this, the constructs in the ref card look really powerful, it looks like a batteries included language. Downloading it now to take it for a spin. Edit: Nevermind Beads only works on Windows and Mac, It needs Wine to work on Linux.
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by c01n 5y ago
Can Immudb work in a decentralized network while remaining secure from attacks in such networks or is Immudb meant for centralized systems if so I think you cannot compare it to Blockchains. Maybe a better comparison is Git.
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by c01n 5y ago
Does immudb offer mechanisms for distributed consensus, because that is one of the top features in blockchains, they do this while remaining P2P.
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by c01n 5y ago
That is because you are clearly a Computer person. The average person has their entire digital life owned by Google.
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by c01n 5y ago
> Is there even a single decentralized app that is mainstream? www
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by c01n 5y ago
>So why even copy the chain first he could just start asking for the hash of the whole thing and if they all have the same there is no point to copy the chain. Well if I control enough nodes I can send you fake hashes (51% attack).
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by c01n 5y ago
Imagine a peer goes offline and stuff happens on the network while its offline, when the peer goes back online what state does it follow, remember that it is a decentralized network what peer does it trust? This is where the chain of verifi
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by c01n 5y ago
Thank you for the reply. I think you misread my comment, I never said 'we don't trust the banks', I wrote that we invented banks to act as third party arbitrators because we (humans) don't trust each other.
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by c01n 5y ago
But with fiat there is no trust between the people, the trust is provided by the banks, they act as the arbitrators because humans cannot trust each other. When we used to barter we stopped because it was sometimes unfair (convert bread to
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by c01n 5y ago
I never really understood this things. Thank you for clearing this up.
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by c01n 5y ago
- Fuels research for applied cryptography (example Zero knowledge cryptography) and privacy technologies. - Pressures existing systems (Fiat, Paypal ...) to improve and keep up. - Gives options to people living in censored governments - Sho
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by c01n 5y ago
This is a deeply philosophical issue. Ideas can be encoded in text there are laws that protect ideas, but then there is rights such as free speech which are meant to protect what we say and how we express ourselves. From a socialism perspec
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by c01n 5y ago
Hmm, I use Firefox (dev edition) on Linux and the video is playing with no problem
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by c01n 5y ago
When Satoshi returns she saves the day.
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by c01n 5y ago
The problem is that success in Silicon Valley means how much money you can make from a product and not about how the product improves the lives of the users in a balanced and morally acceptable way. Is it really successful to disregard user
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by c01n 5y ago
- Pseudonymous Transactions / Privacy - Multiple Accounts - International Transfers - Customization (smart contracts) - Micro Payments / Internet money - Low entry (Phone, internet) - Peer 2 Peer and decentralized - Free Software
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by c01n 5y ago
Short list: - Pseudonymous Transactions - Multiple Accounts - International Transfers - Customization (smart contracts) - Micro Payments / Internet money - Privacy - Low entry (Phone, internet) - Peer 2 Peer and decentralized - Free So
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by c01n 6y ago
> ...once Ethereum completes the switch to PoS This is starting to sound like a chorus.