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explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is one moral you have that most people don't agree with?English41·6 days agoViolence against oil company shareholders is justified defense of yourself and others. Starting with a face slap for small-time diversified 401k oil investors.
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is one moral you have that most people don't agree with?English2·6 days agoEmpathy for private property is pretty common
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is one moral you have that most people don't agree with?English1·6 days agoYou should post the perspective you actually agree with so people can discuss its merits here.
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is one moral you have that most people don't agree with?English5·6 days agoWhat happens if unqualified people get pregnant?
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is one moral you have that most people don't agree with?English8·6 days agoThe government works for them, not us, so the somehow can only be a union.
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•I'm a straight guy who wants to be cute, not handsome. Can I still be attractive despite choosing to be unmanly?English1·10 days agoThat’s gaslighting. If it’s so obvious, then say it.
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•I'm a straight guy who wants to be cute, not handsome. Can I still be attractive despite choosing to be unmanly?English21·10 days agoI’m legit curious about the specifics because I honestly see no benefit in either.
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•No Connection, No FlushEnglish5·11 days agoKhan wrote this
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•On the up side, my imposter syndrome hasn't flared up since seeing the trump admin in action.English1·14 days agoSortition 2028
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?English1·14 days agofrom a functional perspective I don’t see how that’s different from just having it hardcoded in the genesis block
Having posted the code ahead of time, and making the Genesis block not spendable. Monero (not Bytecoin) had a similarly p2p launch, but we can’t measure how concentrated its wealth is.
It’s a problem, sure. If you want auditability at the expense of any guaranteed privacy, again, Ripple. It’s is totally transparent, assuming you keep a backup of all the old closed ledgers. And uses computing power more comparable to an old-fashioned bank account than to Bitcoin.
I got a ton of free Ripples for free when it launched because it was not p2p, but I agreed to test it. I ended up selling them for a considerable amount of virtually pure profit. Aren’t they still using centrally assigned Validators? With that much centralization, they could use virtually no computing power at all.
But it’s a reasonable point - guaranteed privacy or guaranteed auditability? For your network traffic, are you bouncing it through an onion route for which the peers aren’t required to save records - like Tor? I certainty don’t think Monero is centralized or a scam, FWIW. Breaches of privacy are internalized to the users, while a breached supply limit would end the coin.
thinking that cryptocurrencies are all p2p, and that Bitcoin dominates the market because they don’t know this one simple thing, are both telltale signs of a novice.
It’s never been my main squeeze, but I’ve dabbled since the early days. Do with that what you will.
Honestly I don’t recognize your username, but since you’re privacy focused I assume you just change it. It’s been a long time. ❤️
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?English1·17 days agoI believe that you’re extremely qualified in math and cryptography. But thinking that cryptocurrencies are all p2p, and that Bitcoin dominates the market because they don’t know this one simple thing, are both telltale signs of a novice. They’re mostly centralized scams, and the concerns you’re bringing up have been discussed to death.
Monero is a great example.
You’re correct that it was originally forked off of Bytecoin, which had a premine. So Bytecoin was not peer-to-peer, because one user (the issuer) had a different set of rules than everyone else. If you had invested in centralized Bytecoin, you would have lost money because it was not p2p. They had to start over!
The problem with relying on “actual cryptography” for privacy is auditability, like I mentioned above. When there was a bug in Bitcoin that allowed someone to give himself a bazillion BTC, we were able to catch and revert it immediately. If there is a bug like that in Monero, we won’t know until after it’s circulated as much as the premined Bytecoins did.
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?English1·17 days agoYes.
That computing power is necessary to secure the network, without introducing security holes or economic rent. And the rate of production gets cut in half every 4 years. The alternatives you’ve been told about are inferior.
The Lightning Network has onion routing like Tor, and drug dealers have been using mixers for literally a decade. If there’s an inflation bug in Monero (like the value overflow incident), then that will be invisible too.
We still use steam power quite a bit, and aren’t replacing it simply because it’s old. Most new cryptocurrencies are like a Tesla, solving problems they didn’t care to understand.
If you think every cryptocurrency is peer-to-peer, then I am literally begging you to slow down and look at how they actually work before investing more. They frequently have centralized issuance, security, development, governance… you name it. It only takes one centralized part to bring down a project.
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?English1·17 days agoThe most popular crypto is one of the few that’s p2p and well-tested.
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?English132·17 days ago“But in practice, I almost certainly vote Republican.”
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?English2·17 days agoI have. Most people who say this IRL are very Libertarian and very not libertarian. If they like cryptocurrency, it’s something new so they can feel smart.
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What unethical experiment do you think would be interesting to conduct?English2·18 days agoFair enough, I was letting “or” do a lot of heavy lifting there.
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What unethical experiment do you think would be interesting to conduct?English1·18 days agoThat’s not even unethical, we just have bioconservatives in charge.
explodicle@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What unethical experiment do you think would be interesting to conduct?English2·18 days agoI’m curious if it’s even possible to satisfy every whim of a human. Do they get any access to human culture? If not, it would be like cloned birds failing to migrate.
Hey cool, an AI can program itself as well as a human can now. Think of how this will impact the programmer job market! That’s got to be like, the biggest implication of this development.