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In many places, there are no safety deposit boxes (vaults) available to regular people anymore. In my country, there are zero options and the only recommendation is to put your valuables in a safe in your home (which has a completely different security model than a bank vault).

Since this may be a legal gray area, they should host it on a Tor onion site.

I can't even read this blog post because Cloudflare's "security verification" fails over and over again. The internet sucks now.

I would sincerely hope .gov addresses use SPF/DKIM/DMARC. That makes spoofing impossible. In Revolut's case, the sender's email system had been compromised.

> It actually makes me sad to see that on person owns the night sky

SpaceX has many owners, especially post-IPO. You, too, can buy the sky and sell the sky.

Hot take, but enshittified food is just another expression of inflation.

You're right, we should strive for compliance with copyrights and distribution licenses in our personal lives.

You really think someone would do that?

Can you name a game that is older than NetHack and still in active development? I can't.

It's also not simply a matter of agreeing on what tasks to use. The task has to be computationally difficult to perform, but computationally trivial to verify. It must also be verifiable with only the context of the blockchain (no "oracle" that can make claims about real-world events).

Primecoin exist(ed?) and used the search for Mersenne prime numbers as its proof-of-work. That was 13 years ago and is still the only example I know of "proof-of-useful-work", and it would not be difficult to find sour voices challenging its usefulness.

This is true, but large miners also have beneficial electricity contracts and data center capacity, both suitable for AI workloads.

It's a common misunderstanding that mining just gets harder and harder as time goes by and more coins are minted. It's often misreported that way. But in fact, the difficulty is dynamic and adjusts itself to keep minting at the predetermined rate regardless of the number of participants. Mining has gotten harder on long timelines, but only because more computing power has been added.

Backed stablecoins aren't some anarchistic anti-government thing; they are highly regulated and will lose access to their banking if they don't follow the rules – rules which require them to freeze coins in cases of crime.

If you want to show a middle finger to government there are cryptocurrencies for that, but USD stablecoins with centralized backing is not it.

Back when Raspberry Pi 4 came out in 2019, the 4GB variant cost $55. Fast forward seven years and the same hardware with slightly less memory costs $83.75.

There was a time when computers just got faster and better so fast that you could barely get one set up at home before it was obsolete.