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> It's important to note that event for the projects creating new tokens, there is NO WAY to register.

Yes there is. You register them as securities. STX[1] did this. Other projects need to suck it up and do it legally.

[1] disclaimer: I work on the Stacks blockchain (STX)

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Very few French are dying of it (like, 300/day), which I'd call a massive success story. Containing COVID is of course out of the question at this point, and I never argued otherwise. However, the risk of life and limb to people who did get vaccinated is nevertheless increased by the presence of those who did not, because the unvaccinated get sick and eat up hospital resources that would then be denied to people who need medical attention for unrelated reasons. Moreover, they increase the risk of spreading COVID to people who cannot get the vaccine (e.g. babies, folks with weak immune systems). So, it really is in everyone's interest to get everyone vaccinated -- everyone's risk of dying a preventable death decreases.

What's the cost of this? Why, it's the very same as the cost of getting most everyone vaccinated for literally anything else we get vaccinated for! No one has a conniption about vaccine regimens for measles, mumps, polio, etc., because the programs for implementing them at scale have been so successful that hardly anyone gets hospitalized or dies from them anymore. Want to attend public school? Get vaccinated. Want to join the military? Get vaccinated. Want to live in a college dorm? Get vaccinated.

The marginal cost of adding one more required vaccine on top of the ones almost everyone regularly gets (and almost no one complains about) in order to participate in normal society is negligeable.

So no, it's not a case of "everyone gets corona" vs "everyone gets corona and we have a miserable digital dystopia", as you put it. It's a choice of "everyone gets corona and a lot of other people needlessly die for want of medical care" vs "everyone gets corona and/or the vaccine, you have to fill one more checkbox on your vaccine card (which already has a dozen or so), and comparatively fewer people die for want of medical care." Life will get back to normal either way; at this point it's really a question of dealing with the selfish, paranoid, delusional, despicable people who would rather see the mass death of their fellow countrymen over having to fill one more checkbox on their vaccine card.

Or, we can do what we've done in the past to address this very situation by giving everyone the following choice: get the vaccine, or forfeit some privileges. It's not hard, and it's not without lots of precedent, so it should not be controversial.

I can expect that if a sufficiently high body count or death rate is reached (now or in a future variant), certain high-risk activities will require proof of recent vaccination to participate in. See also: seatbelts, child-specific seats, etc. Why should I, a responsible member of the public, be forced to put up with other people's needlessly risky behavior when it directly affects me and mine?

Face masks and vaccines will be the new seatbelts and DUI laws at the rate we're going. I predict that certain activities like flying on an airline, going to public school, or working at a job with close quarters will one day require proof of vaccination and/or masking up to participate. Omicron won't be the last variant, and there is no guarantee that a future variant won't come along that is just as virulent but far more deadly.

The problem is that a certain slice of the population adamantly refuses to wear a mask or get a vaccine, thereby prolonging the pandemic.

It sounds like you are calling me and my friends Nazis for wanting a more egalitarian Web?

I have the opposite experience. My circles are super left/socialist and are also very pro-crypto. Reorganizing a traditional web 2.0 app into a web3 app governed by a DAO is very much a proletariat revolution. In web3, users, not the SaaS operators, own the means of production and wealth distribution.

Why settle for quadratic? Why not cubic? Or why not n^1.2? What's so special about quadratic that makes it the best candidate?

Yeah, how dare people try to make money without resorting to surveillance capitalism. What's the world coming to.

You address this by taxing at the fiat on/off ramps. The ones with access to the deepest liquidity also happen to operate in jurisdictions that have functioning governments that are amenable to passing taxes on PoW. And if that doesn't work, you impose sanctions and tariffs on the countries that permit limitless PoW mining, up to and including black-holing their IP blocks.

It can be done. We banned CFCs after all.