Crypto is such a magical word,

Transforms the bearded old nerds who hate the government meddling with anything (beyond bare minimum) into these chirpy cheer leaders begging for Xi / Putin type governments

:)

Ponzi is not a universal shortcut answer for whatever we can't figure out

Hiw can there be any dearth of suckers when transactions are totalling almost a Trillion Dollars !

So a printed yellow pages or phone directory is what you need

Bingo.
And since the police dept is mostly misusing this facility so now we have some real or imaginary 'hackers' who can conveniently be blamed whenever some one gets caught misusing the EDR.

There can be a few rare cases where tracking someone online would save a life, but mostly it would be police trying to get details on something which is difficult to get a judge to sign off on.

Besides if they are so pressed for time, they would anyway get on a call with the ISP/Telco to expedite the info as soon as they send the email and this issue wouldn't arise

Just too many problems they haven't thought through ! Or even realized.

I'll bet anything this will forever remain a pilot in the treasury depts' cafeteria !

Also Hw token / wallet will need to connect over the internet to another hw token/ wallet. Unless they want only physically proximate txns like BLE NFC.

And need OTA updates unless you want to replace tokens twice a year whenever u find a new bug in hw / fw.

So hackers will have full time physical access to these devices connecting to each other to reverse engg and just keep playing till they find an inevitable bug.

And hw token will necessarily need to be secured by a pin/pwd due to numerous issues. But we cant recover w/o personally identifiable info, so your fingerprint is the the only option possible (for a smartcard)

And FP anyway govt needs to prove 'owner present' transactions else people will FedEx the hw tokens preloaded with large amounts to each other which will be better than cash for criminals.

Finally, having a hw token and no ledger means when, not if, your card stops working the money is gone forever so people are simply going to have a limit they keep on it - like not more than $1000 or 500 or such.

And all this HW + Pin/FP means it will never be useful for automated transactions at all (anything similar to smart contracts) w

Which is the only plus point of digital currencies (beyond anonymity, which is better with cash)

Actually very few topics in STEM have right or wrong answers except at beginner levels. And math.

Mostly it seems cut n dried when we have dumbed down or abstracted out or blackboxed the unknown things for the purpose of being practical enough to teach kids and being them to a level where they can understand & handle the unknowns & uncertainties.

From sub atomic particles to fundamental forces like gravity to the nature of light to the origin & evolution of life to most of medicine and engineering, the objective explanations all stop at a point and end with multiple conflicting unproven theories. Not even complete theories TBH. Even stuff like thermodynamic laws and entropy etc turn out to be probabilistic n statistical things. Things like gravity turn on their heads. Lot of concrete things turn out to be placeholders and adjustment entries like all the dark*
Subatomic particles with what we are taught as 'spin' turn out not to be spinning but to 'have spin' which actually means these are 'flavors' aka just differences in the particles' unknown properties which we are giving names so it's easy to refer to them while we study what it exactly is...

At a beginner's level even Arts & Music & Philosophy are quite objective.

Although grading is still essential, but could be given lower weightage, because kids need to learn how to handle the real world where there's usually some silly or useful metrics always present. If nothing else then the level of money you make

That's pretty accurate

Though this understanding only comes after having participated in this sort of shit fully or partly. It only becomes evident over a really long time like 5-10 years so many times you miss it if you moved on to other cos.

Till you've seen it you obviously feel that you and everyone else there are in complete control of your actions and motivations and all this is just aome wishy washy thing.
The only reason it happens is because no one is truly aware of it as it happens. Otherwise we would immediately change our motivations and targets and work differently.

But in reality the small startup things just no longer seem to work so you keep adapting and assume you are learning n doing things in a better way etc etc.

10 years down the line you can see entire company has just been sort of reaping what was sown earlier though at increasing volumes and no real innovation seems to have come out beyond the initial phase.

Obviously there a some exceptions. Specially those who are aware of this will try to address it in their next venture or job or position - usually by things like competing with your own depts/groups or various such ways but it never works that good.

There's a big difference in the motivations and aspirations of someone with nothing who is hell bent to prove something to the world and doesnt really care about money, and someone with a nice income n nest egg who does want to do something great but not really by risking everything he has, more like calculated risks and getting everyone's opinion and testing the market and the tech in small steps etc etc.

The problem is that if innovation or discovery were a known rational process then half the world would follow that process to success ! It's not at all known beyond the fact that it's an emergent property and the only way is to try all sorts of impossible looking options across functions and industries and intersections of probably the weirdest things.

Umm... what exactly are these 'curly' quotes & "straight quotes" ?

Is it to do with the backticks ` `` ?

How did you jump to asking questions about vaccines suddenly ?

This is exactly how superstitious people try to justify that their 'beliefs' are some infallible universal truths or told by some higher power who can never be wrong by definition!

Everyone has a right to question CDC or WHO or any agency. If they fail to explain it properly to an average citizen then it's problem with their communication or their data.

Otherwise why would there be hundreds of other things on which no one questions them ?

Just because we want to avoid giving anti vaxxers any material to raise doubts doesn't mean we start assuming that media manipulation is normal.
Unless you want to become the next Russia or China.

It was needed temporarily as there was no other option & insufficient data & not enough time to convince every one during the covid outbreaks.

It wasnt something that can be allowed all the time.

1. You are NOT being FORCED to use the interconnect feature !

2. If you have sensitive communication then ensure both use the same app. Or better still encrypt with a separate app in your control

3. It's quite dumb to think that encryption protocol aren't standardized in this day n age. Entire internet works on encrypted endpoints seamlessly. Just stop drawing your Alice & Bob PKI diagrams

3. Next thing you will say voice communications between different telcos can't work, we can only call people on the same telco network ? Because its technically impossible :)

It does work, but hardly any wallets support entering the hex num, most will take the 12/24 words.

You can just convert number to 12/24 words when u need to recreate the wallet/pvtkey.

(I have been fiddling around with a smart card crypto wallet that only takes the hex num instead of 12/24 word mnemonic so I have been trying this exact thing)

The question remains though that why is the usb needed at all when u have the recovery phrase on a paper !

:)

Wow !