adh636
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Comment · 2 years ago
Hopefully there will be consequences for him abusing the legal system in the way he has.
Comment · 2 years ago
I hadn't heard that one before. I like it! Nice article.
Comment · 2 years ago
> Should all our financial systems be open source too?
Yes.
Comment · 3 years ago
Trying to better under the origins of a global pandemic is not an inconsequential endeavor.
Comment · 3 years ago
Not so sure your analogy works here. Aren't containment buildings meant to protect the area where the reactors are? I think the closer analogy would be saying the US needed to tap the breaks on the Manhattan Project because nuclear weapons are dangerous even though Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia are going full steam ahead during WW2 or the cold war with their nuclear weapons programs. The world would probably be very different it we had chosen the 'safer' path.
Comment · 3 years ago
> I did not say that he broke any laws, nor do I believe that what he did was illegal in the slightest?
>> Where they literally tried to create slave farms to obtain these in game currencies?
'literally tried to create slave farms' makes me believe you did think he was doing something 'illegal in the slightest'.
Comment · 3 years ago
> For a slightly higher cost...
> I don't understand this factory farm model
Seems to me like you understand it just fine. Or maybe you are underestimating the cost difference or people's ability/willingness to spend more on these items.
Comment · 4 years ago
> A few people are being, in my view, harmful to everybody, including themselves, for no clear benefits to themselves, and for no gain for society.
This is where your argument keeps falling down for me. This may be your view, but I and many others find great benefit in Bitcoin. I dry my clothes on a clothesline, but don't feel that electric clothes dryers should be made illegal (not sure if you are arguing for this as OP does).
If you are interested in reading about the ways in which Bitcoin benefits different people around the world I recommend the writing of Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation.
Comment · 4 years ago
Your argument seems to be that energy use that doesn't benefit you is wrong. I would be surprised if the idea of telling purchasers of energy what they can do with it, or computers what calculations they are allowed to make, will find much purchase in the United States.
Comment · 4 years ago
PoW incentivizes renewable energy development. It's certainly not rolling it back.
It used to also incentivize GPU production, but as of today that has been diminished as well. Instead it is only current asset holders who reap the rewards.
EDIT: Edited to include at least one source on the connections between PoW and renewable energy. This just scratches the surface though. https://squareup.com/us/en/press/bcei-white-paper
Comment · 4 years ago
Or you can memorize 12 words. Not saying this should be the common practice or that everyone should do it, but having the ability to store your wealth in your mind is useful.
Comment · 4 years ago
Patently obvious? I think there are multiple plausible explanations. Building things people want gives credibility.
I find it more bizarre people have such passionate anger towards others.
Comment · 4 years ago
Study of money is very scant in the modern education system. Looking down on people newly exposed and interested in economics is boorish. I also believe there are incentives ingrained in our society to keep some of this knowledge "secret", as you say.
Comment · 4 years ago