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dragonsidedd@sciencemastodon.com
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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

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@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

https://decrypt.co/148288/lbry-token-plummets-file-sharing-crypto-project-shuts-down

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@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.

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@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

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@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

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@nihilist @makeasnek Monero is the world’s emergency safety valve against overzealous governments

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@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

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@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.

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