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by jkepler 6y ago
Perhaps you were down-voted due the the decentralized non-monetary innovations already existing on open public blockchains: protocol-level private cloud storage[1], decentralized identity[2], censorship resistant permissionless chat[3], and
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Sounds like someone who understands those problems should build a protocol that includes a very low fee per transaction to pay for protocol development. That's how the bisq.network handles this - that way parties interested in actually
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Works great until the government either recalls the pieces of paper (PM Modi in India, anyone?), or institutes strict capital controls while running the printing press incessantly (Weimar Germany, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Lebanon, just to name
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by jkepler 6y ago
See also https://tardigrade.io/ .
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https://github.com/decentralized-identity/ion
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https://github.com/decentralized-identity/ion
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Money is the first and obvious use case when you have a decentralized trust machine. But since money is only our shared language for communicating value, censorship resistant publishing won't be far behind.
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Yes. See the ION project Microsoft has led starting - its a decentralized identity project designed as a sidechain that periodically anchors its data to bitcoin's censorship resistant blockchain. See https://techcommunity.mi
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by jkepler 6y ago
Censorship resistant chat based on the lightning network. See https://www.getjuggernaut.com/ , https://sphinx.chat/ , or chat function integrated in OpenBazaar's Haven app ( https://gethaven
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If one already trusts a centralized party, why bother with a blockchain? A regular database would be cheaper & simpler.
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I used opentimestamps.org to timestamp my last apartment lease after signing and before emailing it to an out-of-country landlord who I'd never met; he then signed it and time-stamped his copy before sending me a copy. That way, in cas
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by jkepler 6y ago
Modifying your analogy... But if rather than biblically literate medieval peasants, we had biblically literate medieval scholars founding universities to study not only the Bible but also the classics, mathematics, the sciences, the arts, w
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by jkepler 6y ago
"Artistic theft" isn't really ethically theft if someone has simply copied a work. Imagine a small village. If John makes an axe, and Jim sees it and copies it, did Jim steal John's axe? Seems like there's only thef
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Today, many Christians are disparaged by atheists, as the assumption of many in western late-modern cultures is that public discourse ought to be secular. Yet this is often based on an assumed common ground of Enlightenment humanism, with a
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by jkepler 6y ago
The OP linked to Cato, but per the page it was a joint survey with YouGov, too.
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by jkepler 6y ago
Do you care to post the organizational info for YouGov also, as the Cato post the OP shared says it was a joint Cato/YouGov survey? I familiar with Cato, but not so familiar with YouGov, https://yougov.co.uk/ .
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by jkepler 6y ago
I'm not sure this is really the "first ever case of a fatality being linked to a cyberattack" as the subtitle claims. Didn't NotPetya take down a bunch of US hospital networks, as documented in the book Sandworm? I can&#
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by jkepler 6y ago
When I was in Europe in 2018/2019 (where they still had decent 3G network coverage unlike my provider here in the USA) I used my Nokia N900 as my daily driver, not as a smartphone but primarily a feature phone with a full keyboard and
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That would be great, as I would like to unify my Signal correspondence but its currently split between two phone numbers.
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But if Signal only used the phone's contact list, and only stored it locally, and if a user independently backed up her contact list, wouldn't that mean in the case of phone loss, Signal could rebuild its contact list once the use
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Your point is well made in David Bahnsen's book, Crisis of Responsibility, where he cites multiple studies indicating that higher education and income levels correlate with stable families on the right or left of the political spectrum
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Wait, but you can still radio the folks I'm your ham club, right? Or has government overreach stretched to new lows?
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No. One can store keys offline. That's what hardware wallets do.
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Even a single hardware wallet would have been risky - loss or damage, or theft. For high values, set up multi signature hardware wallets, at least a 2 of 3 scheme, each stored in different geographic locations.
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> ... It allows society to coordinate. That's also the role of prices - they are signals for people to take action, provided the actors are free. Prices as an information signal simply fail to work when entities like the government
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> the endless stream of wallet provider hacks is not convincing anyone that it's secure Does the endless theft of money through central banks' intentionally inflating the money supply increase your faith that government fiat is
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by jkepler 6y ago
I thought Ethereum's primary aim was to be an unstoppable world computer that runs any code where the fas fee was paid, not money. Bitcoin aims to be peer-to-peer censorship-resistant electronic cash---and at this point its protocol h
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by jkepler 6y ago
No, not when state or county governments disagree with or refuse to enforce federal government laws. Haven't 37 US states legalized (to some extent) marijuana, while the federal government still has prohibition laws/rules in place
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On iOS a user would have to jailbreak their device, voiding their warrantee. Only other way I can think of would be a 100% web app, not an installable app, if you want to avoid the Apple App store. On Android you can distribute your app via
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by jkepler 6y ago
A June 21 podcast episode interviewing Basecamp regaeding their fight against Apple's pulling their Hey! email app for the same reasons: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/is-apple-abusing-its-... Isn't A

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