dmantis

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by dmantis 6y ago
Well, not directly the mastercard, but current banking system - lots of people. TLDR; custody banking model keeps people out of control of their own property. There is a big problem with private property rights and safety guaranties of your
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by dmantis 6y ago
I think you talk about bitmessage. It doesn't use blockchain, though, which is kinda useless, there is no need to store messages permanently without the way to remove them. These systems mostly use blockchain as PKI or similar to bitco
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by dmantis 6y ago
In theory, you are right. In practise, govs are basically big robbery machines which are more interested in their own property and influence than me as a citizen (and as a human being in general). For example it can be VERY tricky in most c
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by dmantis 6y ago
Russia, China, Europe, etc don't arrest American citizens for not comply with local laws (which sometimes are as shitty as American's KYC paranoia) in the internet. Doing KYC for US citizens would require doing KYC for everyone, w
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by dmantis 6y ago
Well, good for the people and customers, too.
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From the US point of view. The problem is that US gov is expanding their laws as crossbordering. E.g. if I don't work with american people at all and do service with less regulations requirements I can be still charged and extradited t
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by dmantis 6y ago
So much hypocrisy, so much 'mission'. Coinbase are pioneers of custodial, KYC-first, users data trade and espionage (IRS scandal) approach to crypto which harms ecosystem deeply, making non-custodial solutions more vulnerable to c
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by dmantis 6y ago
Altruism or not - it's a very bad idea to handle rights over open-source trademarks by one US-based organization due to aggressive political interventions from the gov: e.g. gitlab case with discrimination over russian/chinese hir
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by dmantis 6y ago
I ran few exit nodes several years ago on 3rd world country VPS hoster with bitcoin payments and fake data. They had never care until abuse notice from Korean Government during some crime investigation. BTW, they didn't even ban my acc
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by dmantis 6y ago
First, old firefox (pre-quantum) really started to be slow and non-competitive. Second, Google actually were caught on making their resources work worse on firefox and other competitors with some hacks. E.g. https://www.zdnet.com