Calamity

Although it has nothing to do with me, what a pleasure it was to read your comment.

Indeed, I truly don't understand how simply enabling parental controls onto mobile devices handed to kids which then gets advertised to each website/app that they use isn't sufficient.

You make it an opt-in feature to "self-broadcast" that this device is being used by a minor. Solves 99% of the use cases. And for the remaining 1% — the really determined teenager — they'd never be stopped by this anyway. They'd social enginneer their way to access somehow.

The combo of mise + UV has made my development environment setup/recreation so seamless. We've come a long way.

(Props to your work on mise)

I mean, okay sure, but modify the counterexample they suggested slightly and then it's the same thing.

If GM promised to "rent out" (instead of buy back) the cars it sold to Hertz as a backstop (if not enough customers are renting), then the comparison is apt.

One of my favorite thought nuggets from Douglas Adams

how well does this actually pan out for you?

Interested if you could elaborate further here or have some pointers to good references. I feel like I'm at a turning point in my life where I'm starting to see things a little differently. Sometimes bewildered by how little knowledge or control there really is.

Thanks for the input Troy. Although I can see the reasons for it, transfer restrictions seems to me a little like the company has too much control over its shares - but like you said, they aren't "privately-traded securities". If I owned a restaurant with a buddy and wanted out, I imagine I wouldn't be able to just sell it on to somebody else without my buddy's consent.

Yeh, definitely - I appreciate the input nonetheless!

Sure, but you can still track those individuals through the block chain and freeze all their other "classic" assets in the US. All I'm saying is that the argument that it's a good "anonymous" form of currency is not all that true. That's not to say that there aren't other currencies out there that prioritize anonymity (e.g. Monero), but when we're focusing on Bitcoin here.

Yeh, I had actually briefly looked into after writing that comment and found the same - interesting that Paul came up with his own version of LISP to do it in.

If you wanted to remake it in a modern framework though, what stack would you personally opt for? I think Postgres or MySQL for the database is a no-brainer, but what about the quickest approach for the rest (bar of course simply cloning the repo ;) )

Thanks for the input oblib! Will check it out

And actually, re: "The only real, pragmatic usecases are fueling ransomware, drugs and illicit cross-border transactions", arguably, will all the KYC checks needed now along with all the coin tracking software being developed to track the blockchain, that's not longer the case.

Yes, you're spot on. Thanks for catching that. It was late, brain slipped up on me ;) Shame it's too late to edit - it does make it confusing