Quantum computing is not a threat to bitcoin mining since it is a SHA-256 process and there's no known QC algorithm that threatens it. Even assuming your claim that QC could mine all of the remaining bitcoin quickly (it can't), the scarcity of the 21 million coin limit is coded into the protocol. QC doesn't have the capacity to change the protocol.

Quantum computing IS a threat to public key cryptography because there's a known algorithm to derive the private key from a public key. This isn't a problem for most bitcoin on the blockchain because they are mostly hashed public keys. However, in the very early days it was common to send bitcoin directly to a non-hashed public key which exposes those coins to QC. Anyone having coins in those addresses will have to move them to protect against the QC threat.

3D printers are assembled from parts, like guns. The ATF attempted to make gun parts restricted, but that is being litigated.

Since 3d printers are more generalized in their applicability, there is no legitimate case for preventing access to the parts required to assemble one.

Your homophobic slur was directed at me, and I called you out on it.

You can deflect all you want, but again, it's just more evidence of your own insecurity. Additional food for thought.

The most common attack from anti-Musk leftists is homophobic. It's really something, and it shows up literally anytime someone remarks positively about Musk on Slashdot.

It's obviously a projection of your own insecurity. Something for you to think about.

A capitalist technologist has found a way to reduce the cost of internet access for impoverished Africans, dramatically increasing their ability to learn and develop independently.

Leftists on Slashdot would prefer that the impoverished Africans remain impoverished, dependent, and out of reach of the internet because they hate capitalism that much.

WTF do in-game currencies have to do with banking regulations? The remedies already exist for disputing fraudulent charges with credit cards. There is no role for the federal government in fictional gaming economies.

The bitcoin trading volume on Coinbase has reached over $3.3 billion in just the last 24 hours. If you want to sell a bitcoin around its current spot price, you will have no problem finding a buyer on Coinbase, and it is just one of many places where buyers and sellers meet to trade.

The surest sign of a commie is the use of scare-quotes with rights, as if they are not something to be cherished and protected. GFY

I'm not a coward who would give up their rights because of some phantom fear. It's sad you think giving up rights is the only way to be a good father. I pity people who think like you.

No I would not. If you can't prove anything without violating the Fourth Amendment, you probably don't have anything more than suspicion to begin with. If you have evidence of your own and the cops won't do anything about it, you'd be justified in taking things into your own hands so long as you are willing to face the music for your actions. Juries have been known to side with parents in such situations.

I have two kids and I will not yield my privacy nor theirs to the government for some false sense of security for them. I am fully capable of protecting them myself and don't need some stupid bureaucrat stepping in to fuck them over in some way because I gave in to fear.

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The US already peaked around 2007.

The web was built on HTTP in such a dumb way that made all transmissions public, so a certificate provider that hides those transmissions and helps facilitate [insert random illegal activity that can be hidden through encryption] is needed?

I hope you realize the battle over export restriction of secure encryption technology was won against the US authoritarians a few decades ago.

I hope you don't use cash for anything because, if you do, your daddy government won't be able to surveil your activities.

This is true in the same way that end-to-end encryption exists only to conceal child sex trafficking activities.