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Is gold a store of value? It's quite volatile. Is paper backed by nothing and printed on a whim a currency? It's often slow for large transactions. Is Magic the Gathering Black Lotus card a product? It doesn't _do_ anything.

One definite use of bitcoin is to transfer moneys all over the place.

Maybe the lesson is: don't fall in love with something and then sell it.

This type of capitalism is tiresome, but is not that what these companies sign up for when they sell their souls to the highest bidder with fingers crossed that those money-first buyers give an F about the heart and soul of the company and product?

One of my most favorite apps that I use daily and is the basis of my short story where the algorithms start causing people to do weird things like check-in to natural disasters before they happen.

Ironically, my story (done at end of 2026) will live on longer than its inspired app.

Dang.

I see BitPay around town here in the Bay Area. I use BTC to fund my degenerate sports gamblings. It's not common, but it's around. The whole deflationary aspect encourages hording, though, which is both a positive and a negative aspect.

All true, but I did learn that there are two similar implementations, one NSA and one not, and Satoshi went with the latter.

If someone can crack SHA256 etc, they 1) have cracked a lot more than bitcoin, and 2) it will be highly monetarily advantageous to him to not reveal it nor F with it.

What is a FAG D?

A "cavity" is a subjective diagnosis. You may very well be fine with those pinhole crevices, or you will become a member of "The Big Book of British Smiles". I suggest going to a dentist once or twice a year for regular upkeep.

Correct. That is one of a few of them and thank you for the name of the third party. I read it, and mostly have the same opinion.

If I make a computer virus and then it works, did it go rogue or did it do what I told it to? The claim is that the agent/software/whatever decided on its own to do nefarious acts, and that is what I doubt. I think the guilty code did what it was written to do, albeit some distance from the humans' direct orders.

The ethical angles of AI are debatable, but how a company frames their own product as so superior that it went rogue and successfully attacked all the things should be critiqued and not believed until otherwise proven.

It's a race, and a speculative one, so flexing _constantly_ to stay seemingly ahead is expected.

You are correct about the negative aspect of deflationary, but if you believed in your view, then why did you not grab a bag?

Very cool! Need the Android app. Do you need any help building/porting it? React Native?

As others have mentioned, it reminds me of Foursquare of years ago that a lot of us miss.

It's opt-in. Big difference between opt-in and a surveillance state that does whatever it wants carte blanche. The latter will still, of course, use and abuse the former. All my check-ins are belong to "Illifion"! Or wtf named ad company.

Compare to stonks or precious metals and it's a similar, mostly unknowing situation.