Non-custodial is a good step but the wallet needs to be free software if it's going to be more than a shiny toy that quickly loses its luster.

Experience tells me most users are going to switch to another centralized platform because it's not YouTube and it's not Vimeo but they can put an end to this cycle by hosting videos on federated FOSS like PeerTube. Yes, those can go commercial as well but for the bigger concerns, it's not hard to setup an instance and host all of your own video.

Maybe they're going by user numbers? Hard to believe each of the poll options has more than a million users. Slashdot unfortunately is overrun with trolls so I tend to spend less time here than ever. Polls like this as it's discussion section just confirm my decision but I'm glad someone mentioned what I consider the most promising kind of social networking.

as a kid, i built one of dave mao's presses. it's deceptively simple for what it does.

it's basically a stack of belleville washers leveraging a pair of tongs.

you can create different pressures depending on the way you stack the washers, which are essentially springs.

i didn't have the cash for the diamonds, but it worked. if i kept it, i could probably buy diamonds for it.

Good question. The team behind it made lots of false promises and used the bitcoin.com domain name to attempt to get people to purchase it, thinking they were buying the genuine article. Here, with this article, the scam continues today. It has nothing to do with Bitcoin, and yet its material to FUD BTC.

This article is not about Bitcoin but about another scam with Bitcoin Cash, a fork which has attempted to muddy the waters and trade on the brand for years.

In a world of cheap money, Uber and others should take that money and build out electric vehicle infra. Fast-chargers and company-provided EVs could help make their models work.

Bad for privacy. Centralized. Will never be widely adopted.

Blockchain.com had its day. Best to fuggedaboutit unless they return to community roots and focus on privacy and free open source software.

But you may do it inadvertently or out of habit.

Researchers' emails are in the paper. Let us know what they say!

It's weird how all this concern about energy usage completely ignores the benefits of a decentralized, sovereign currency. Why do people willfully ignore the history of currency?

If businesses can have private security then why not anyone else? The question for me is what can these guards do? Are they allowed to arrest or otherwise place hands on anyone? Or do they just show up to livestream it to company servers for later production to law enforcement?

Let me tell you a little story about DeFi. Ain't never used it myself because these blockchain analysis folks are going to have a lot of fun ratting out DEX users and yield farmers to the IRS. Unfortunately, there's not going to be much money they can get ahold of once the wreckage takes its course.

Damn, these aimbots are getting good.

If only there was a cash that was compatible with the online world. China has irreversible payments in yuan so I would think that Visa/MC could come up with a flavor or payment like that.