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Software Engineer by trade, scientist at heart, homeschooler of STEM.
As a kid I learned assembly language so I could make my TRS-80 Space Invaders program run faster. Now I am one of the army of people that make the Internet happen.
"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R. Buckminster Fuller
@ajsadauskas @technology
> By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift
Fortunately, sometimes the grifters get justice served
@stealths @User1 I don’t think any of us running nodes are going to stop because of what any particular corporation decides. We’re not running nodes to earn money.
@rottenwheel XMR is the only fair-valued crypto. This is because it is the only one being actively used as currency, not as a Beanie Baby speculative scheme
@slopjockey @BlueMonday1984 Vance concerns me more than Trump.
@moneromaxi @Rucknium Don’t trust your money to closed source wallets
@muntedcrocodile @k4r4b3y The reason crypto in general is considered scammy is because BTC, ETH, and most others are simply not useful as currencies, due to LIMITATIONS OF DESIGN. Such as hardcoded blocksize, block transparency, and more.
Right from the beginning, people doubled down on their investments selling flimsy alternative theories than the simple design goal of “Internet cash”
AFAICT, only one serious project has had the engineering focus to make design changes as needed. XMR is money
@shortwavesurfer @antidarknet
On the one hand, marijuana clearly should have fewer restrictions than alcohol given the objectively fewer personal and social risks.
On the other hand, without marijuana prohibition, how will we ensure a constant stream of new anarchists in each successive generation?
/s
@nihilist @makeasnek Monero is the world's emergency safety valve against overzealous governments
@Rucknium People using Monero with a closed source wallet, smh
@stealths I think Monero is the best available Internet Currency.
Speculating on currency is way, way outside my specialization and is not of personal interest.
As a software engineer, designing and deploying a currency that is conformant with the design principles of the Internet... is exactly my specialization and interest.
@k4r4b3y TBH I stopped paying attention to SSB about 2 years ago, and even when I was active I just used the web interface (and sometimes the CLI for pub management)
@k4r4b3y I got thru #8 and they were all the same nonissue IMO -- yes, it's an append-only log like a lot of decentralized systems and yes that means it's not inherently linear and that you can't delete stuff.
I'll look over the rest later
@Saki @mister_monster Privacy premium
@mister_monster @snitchy_asc I had the same skepticism about monotonically increasing blockchain sizes.
I wish I had looked at storage and bandwidth curves a lot earlier.
Long term storage size is no longer a concern I worry about.
@k4r4b3y @rafael_xmr Just poking in to say I also love SSB’s totally decentralized design. It’s what I would choose for maximum censorship resistance.
That said, the world has basically chosen Federated architectures rather than fully decentralized ones: Matrix, Mastodon, etc.
An important requirement for a social network… is people
“Why?”
Because it’s cool AF to make Things
@Lokjo @librewolf
Today I completed my daily driver transition to #LibreWolf ; this thread was the catalyst.
I love love LOVE the idea of a simply stripped-down, un-f--ked #FireFox
I love that it was able to use Sync and pull all my saved stuff directly from mozilla.
My only complaint is that LibreWolf demands to be pro-bono libre volunteers; they won't shut up and take my money!
I still contribute monthly to FF; I pretend it's to fund upstream development.
@rattie_ok @Saki The goal is a "Peer-to-peer electronic cash system". If and to the degree that such is realized, this goal has society-changing ramifications. It is money that plays by Internet consensus rules, not by coercive governmental ones.
Realizing this goal requires many design choices.
When faced with its (rather obvious) scaling problem, BTC chose not to change its design but rather to rebrand as "store of value" instead of "electronic cash".
That was the death of honest crypto.
@Saki @tusker I happen to know the CEO of LBRY/Odyssee. He was very upfront about Odyssee being an ad-generation/metadata-sales company, when it was created in the face of LBRY slowly losing money.
Incredibly perverse, given Odyssee's marketing. Kinda like those slimy VPN companies that do protect you from your local Internet carrier... but not from their own advertising & tracking.
@rattie_ok All we can do is keep Monero honest. It is the only crypto actually being used as currency
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