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Comment · 2 years ago
Wow that's a great point. Git repository hosts are perfect use case for this.

One of the challenges of having the ssh key be the identity connecting multiple devices, another challenge is if you lose access to your ssh key, I'm not sure what the "forgot password" flow would be. Especially since you wouldn't even have a signup email address.

Comment · 2 years ago
> Of course the catch is that our users need to be able to run SSH commands

If we ever crack how to make that normie-accessible, the the game is flipped upside down.

Look at how much energy has been put into Passkeys - a massive orchestration and cooperation from google, microsoft, apple... And it’s still slow AF, often requires that you find your second Passkey device, bluetooth, QR code scanning etc.

Comment · 4 years ago
if you assume typical stock market returns, ~$2M is enough to retire on and live on $100k a year of interest gained alone.
Comment · 4 years ago
Six months??? What does "comply" mean? Ship a version of the OS that supports all these new features? Or begin implementation of them?

Six months is barely enough time for companies to digest and understand the new requirements, and certainly not enough time to develop and ship such dramatic changes.

Comment · 4 years ago
all those websites take their cut. and visa takes their cut. and still the podcaster can't "cash out" immediately, depending on settlement times and policies of the corporations. Essentially, the middlemen have the creators by the balls, lightning solves that.
Comment · 4 years ago
is there an app that can send bulk gdpr data deletion requests for no-longer-used services?

seems like it'd be possible write an app that scans email history to detect services that have your data, scrape their websites to determine support email address(es), and send a GDPR data deletion request template to each of the selected ones.

Comment · 4 years ago
it's already hell, who cares.
Comment · 4 years ago
The site and search eventually work, but the torrents themselves do not download and do not appear to have all necessary magnet information in the links. So the downloads just hang there in the torrent client.
Comment · 4 years ago
True. I only told them how to use CashApp which only sells bitcoin.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah, eth is bad enough, but BSC and Solana are where the truly depraved and desperate get-rich-quick victims are. Absolutely brutal.
Comment · 4 years ago
My parents reached out asking me to help them figure out how to buy this Amazon crypto. They've recently become interested in crypto and so I've been teaching them how it works and how to use it.

Luckily I hadn't taught them anything about eth except how to buy it and how to self-custody it yet.

After seeing how easily they were scammed into believing this was real, I am recommending they steer clear of eth entirely and just stick to learning about bitcoin. Too many (believable) scams on smart contract chains.

The only btc scams I've seen are along the lines of "Send me your btc and I'll double it back for you!" which is obvious even for them.

Comment · 4 years ago
I get that it's statistically impossible to actually rob bitcoin using this site (by finding a "green" private key).

But can anyone explain why I am able to find so many "yellow" ones (empty wallets that have previously made transactions)?

I expected going in to _only_ find "red" (never used) wallets and was surprised to find that was very much not the case.

Comment · 4 years ago
not to mention lightning, which is where a majority of transactions would actually be occurring.
Comment · 4 years ago
I think raising this concern is a great first step into seriously thinking about bitcoin. Learning about bitcoin is a string of epiphanies and concerns, much like the actual bitcoin price chart over time.

No one gets to "maxi" without first going through all the ups and downs and common questions and misunderstandings

Comment · 5 years ago
> Thus the investors, as a whole, are always in the red, and their collective loss only increases with time

How is this true of bitcoin investors? When bitcoin price action is near all time highs, most bitcoin investors are not in the red.

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