unboxingelf

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study bitcoin

if you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.

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Comment · 8 months ago
1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.
Comment · 9 months ago
Who cares. From one walled garden to the next. Renting identities on permissioned networks is so tiresome.
Comment · 10 months ago
I argue there is a more fundamental problem with the money: Debasement.

Debasement is an invisible tax and its effects far outweigh individuals bypassing taxes.

Comment · 11 months ago

  It's a massive flaw in how Azure works and why it's 10x more complicated than AWS or GCP.
Wait until you try OCI.
Comment · 1 year ago
Nice thanks, I was finally able to design the schema for my dog turd tracker. The foreign key to the smells table was a great suggestion!
Comment · 1 year ago
You’re not the only one.
Comment · 1 year ago
Who is macOS designed for? I assume a non negligible customer base are software professionals and this iOSification of the desktop is borderline hostile. I don’t get it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
The Simulation Theory presents the following trilemma, one of which must be true:

1. Almost all human-level civilizations go extinct before reaching a technologically mature “posthuman” stage capable of running high-fidelity ancestor simulations.

2. Almost no posthuman civilizations are interested in running simulations of their evolutionary history or beings like their ancestors.

3. We are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.

Comment · 1 year ago
KYC only hurts law abiding citizens.

Criminals just use stolen identities (from breaches of KYC data).

Comment · 1 year ago
The analogy works in the visibility sense and I see why you might assume there’s a blockchain involved in Nostr. But to clarify, there is not.

It’s worth highlighting as there are many affinity scammers spinning up tokens/blockchains called “Nostr”.

Comment · 1 year ago
Nostr doesn’t have a blockchain or token.

Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays.

It’s just signed json messages distributed by [websocket] relays.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Lightning is a layer two protocol on Bitcoin. It supports any Lightning wallet including CashApp.

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