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Not sure i understand this definition...
I can think of a few materials that started with good intentions but ended up being quite bad for us:
- lead-based paint (development delays in children)
- asbestos (cancer, etc)
- CFCs (depletion of the ozone layer)
- Thalidomide to treat morning sickness in pregnant women (birth defects in children)
- Bisphenol A used in plastics (endocrine disruptor)
Makes me think that maybe one of the worst discoveries will turn out to be plastic. We only start to scratch the surface of the damaging effect microplastics are having on us and our children. It's a tricky one, as plastic is obviously also one of our best, or at least, most useful, inventions.
I usually can't be arsed to log into alt account, anon is easier. But yeah, that could be a reason for alt
There are things i'd rather post as @anon. That costs money, so an alt account can be useful.
Never a boring read by Arthus Hayes, my favorite doomsday writer. Most of his predictions remain in the realm of fiction though.
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Say you want to send a private message, cast a secret vote or sign a document securely. If you do any of these tasks on a computer, you’re relying on encryption to keep your data safe. That encryption needs to withstand attacks from codebreakers with their own computers, so modern encryption methods rely on assumptions about what mathematical problems are hard for computers to solve.
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In a string of recent papers, researchers have shown that most cryptographic tasks could still be accomplished securely even in hypothetical worlds where practically all computation is easy. All that matters is the difficulty of a special computational problem about quantum theory itself.
Henceforth, a quote.
INTRODUCTION
This guide is a bit more special because I will try to present a real use case scenario for many new Bitcoin and Lightning users. Is a use case to help more people to onboard easy with Bitcoin, in a more private manner. Is the main case of “Uncle Jim” that is helping his local community with his knowledge, skills and… LN liquidity.
This guide IS NOT about “earning yield” with your LN node!
Why I would write such guide for such use case scenario? Because most of the people need banks, but not fiat banks. They need Bitcoin Lightning Banks, because not anybody will be capable to run their own routing node, many also will don’t want it. This is where “uncle Jim” model come into place. And is needed. This is the start for building The Bitcoin Circular Economy.
I think sharing each of Darth's guides, one by one each day, with a relevant quote and summary, would not be such a bad idea... so much alpha (that's what the crypto guys call it in a group chat I am part of) that needs more eyes on it.
I would not use the term IOU in the context of the Lightning Network. This would imply trust while LN is trustless by design.
Of course this is different for a centralised service where numbers get updated in a database...
It's kinda implied in this article, but worth emphasizing that quantum entanglement doesn't mean information can be transferred at a speed greater than the speed of light. If you are measuring the state of entagled particle B, you would still need to check the state of particle A by obtaining it through "classical" means, i.e. someone at particle A would need to inform you of its state, whose communication means are bound by the speed of light.
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From Bitkeys customer service, asked about this in case I'd decided to go with Bitkey.
You don't have a seed phrase. We're actively working on an inheritance feature but in the meantime, you'll soon be able to enable multiple fingerprints on you Bitkey hardware which can allow a family member to access the funds if the owner unexpectedly dies.