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by mhluongo 3y ago
Pay taxes.
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by mhluongo 4y ago
There are many honest people in the space. Unfortunately, they don't make for good headlines.
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by mhluongo 4y ago
> and the former would never allow this to happen ever. Not sure what you mean here. There are many Linux distros...?
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by mhluongo 4y ago
They are and they have. Many stopped after FTX as a policy. Poor risk/reward tradeoffs.
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by mhluongo 4y ago
Hm, none of this is about fractional reserve, right? So the OP's point stands?
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by mhluongo 4y ago
BitGo seems to have done fine after all these years.
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by mhluongo 4y ago
When the federation is per-user, that's typically called "peer-to-peer" rather than federated...?
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by mhluongo 4y ago
Big hiring criterion for us as well! Details in my profile if you're looking.
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by mhluongo 4y ago
It's easier when you can print money :)
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by mhluongo 4y ago
FDIC limits are low. Socialized losses can definitely happen past those limits.
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by mhluongo 4y ago
If hosted Gitlab is so easy for contribution, why is the larger social graph on GitHub?
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by mhluongo 4y ago
Wooly thinking begets wooly thinking, I see. Even if you hate all cryptocurrencies and financial use cases, the space has spurred a ton of new and interesting applied research. Ignoring eg BLS signatures and multiparty computation because o
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by mhluongo 4y ago
It's terrible that these people want alternatives to MS owning all of our infrastructure! /s When did the hatred for anything with a token turn into outright bootlicking? Do we not remember MS of the 90s?
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by mhluongo 4y ago
We can play the same game.
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by mhluongo 4y ago
Akka seemed to win in Scala
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by mhluongo 4y ago
There's a version of this sort of password manager that is safe. Not saying Bitwarden is it, just that strong, well-implemented cryptography can get us there.
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by mhluongo 4y ago
Huh, likely leaving the rest of the co in a lurch. Nice.
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by mhluongo 4y ago
Sending money is a pretty clear use case. Ukraine received a bunch of international crypto donations last year, for example. Your lack of imagination doesn't mean something is just for "illegal activities".
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by mhluongo 4y ago
It relies on trusted hardware (SGX) that's been shown to be insecure many times. Please don't trust your freedom to SGX.
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by mhluongo 4y ago
Pretty straightforward — Treasury said we couldn't use a particular computer program rather than interact with a particular entity, and that's outside their authority.
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by mhluongo 4y ago
It can sometimes help with hiring early on. Pg's "blob" blog post comes to mind.
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by mhluongo 4y ago
If it's within 30 days in the US, there will still be an issue with provenance of funds.
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by mhluongo 4y ago
I'm part of the team that maintains a digital wallet browser extension with a really clean codebase — check it out. https://github.com/tallyhowallet/extension
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by mhluongo 4y ago
No, Protocol Labs it to IPFS as Blockstream is to BTC. ConsenSys is an entirely different company focused on Ethereum, and neither invented nor maintain IPFS. That's Protocol Labs. Protocol Labs didn't start out of ConsenSys eithe
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by mhluongo 4y ago
Again, ConsenSys isn't behind IPFS. These are two different things. > People are now trying to associate IPFS with "Web3". For example, check out this paper published a couple of weeks ago. IPFS has been used to host dApps
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by mhluongo 4y ago
You're confusing ConsenSys and Protocol Labs. ConsenSys was founded by Joe Lubin, and is the corporate entity behind MetaMask, Infura, etc. It counts MasterCard and JP Morgan as investors. Protocol Labs was founded by Juan Benet and is
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by mhluongo 4y ago
Just sharing for general interest / awareness, not as a "gotcha". Though I will point out... > only that it does not matter ... that this isn't true! MEV can destabilize consensus. There's been research around th
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by mhluongo 4y ago
There are certainly tx validity rules, though, and when presented with a set of equally valid txs, miners will likely choose the one that is best for them (called "MEV", miner extractable value).
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by mhluongo 4y ago
Freedom always is.
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by mhluongo 4y ago
We have stable coins that can get you both.

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