0 sats \ 0 replies \ @tomlaies 17 Apr \ on: All that is wrong with bug bounty in a single image security
Bug bounties should encourage and incentivize. Not paying because of something secret is baaad practice.
I would have guessed easter europe to lead here
... And Czechia, the place where beer-europe, wine-europe and booze-europe overlap, to be the highest lol
The answer to your question is that this is the property that Bitcoin WILL have but doesn't completely reached yet.
It's hard for people here who spend at least the last 5 years to imagine that. But we're still early.
Posts like these go viral here every now and then. I would like to see some posts about people onboarding to Lightning to balance it out every now and then maybe.
Unpopular opinion but this is another consequence of having only one major implementation. But it's not too late to change that.
Luckily we made a better decision when implementing Lightning specifications.
No, you can just hide a lightning node behind tor or a vpn or actually really going abroad. Exactly the same as onchain. Bitcoin is resilient against that.
Right now it's a donation to the Stacker News community.
In the future it might become a low-profitability and low-effort side hustle to run a territory.
If that comes true it might now be somewhere in between a donation and a odd-odds-investment.
Bitcoin has something called the gossip network. It "solves" state machine replication/dolev strong/byzantine agreement. Which is a better contender for "layer 0" imo.
54 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies 22 Mar \ parent \ on: What is your "Why" for libertarianism? libertarian
Are you accusing me of lying? I don't lie and I haven't changed my opinion on this.
Vaccines are safe and effective and I'll recommend everyone to take them. But I don't think they should be forced. In fact, I think governments should be abolished.
77 sats \ 6 replies \ @tomlaies 22 Mar \ parent \ on: What is your "Why" for libertarianism? libertarian
No, I don't force anyone to take jabs or wear mask. I think these things should be voluntary. But they are still safe and effective. Like, those are facts - facts are objectively true and don't change my stance on anarcho-libertarianism.
It's been 4 years Darth, get over it. The virus has mutated and the population developed herd immunity. It's over.
Freedom is the natural state of existence.
When there are rules, people try the maximum within them. When there are trade restrictions, people try to arbitrage them. When there are laws, people search for gaps. When there are resources/capital, people try to gather and acquire them.
It's like water flowing downhill into the ocean. The natural state of being.
Are you aware that Nassim Nicholas Taleb (author of antifragile) is anti Bitcoin and spreading FUD all the time?
Markets (like eg the nyse or nasdaq) are agnostic to which piece of paper is traded. Apple stock has the same circuit breakers as AMD stock. The Bitcoin etf will halt at the same markers like other securities. Idk if they have special buckets for etns - they might have special rules that only apply to commodity funds tho.
Subsidies, tax breaks, the bully pulpit using the powers of the federal government to influence business. Our economics commentator says presidents of both parties embrace state capitalism.
I once wrote a post why Bitcoin doesn't have to be "right": #159684 because Bitcoin already has achieved its goal.
I think perspective shifts like this are valuable to think about in general for every topic. At least play with the thought of what being "right" actually is.
It's basically impossible to run a Lightning node with $50. And to be actually worth it and actually move traffic in sizes that would make sense once the world hyperbitcoinizes your largest number is still fairly small - $2500 really?
Here I have to give a warning that comes true 100% of the time: there are only 2 kinds of politicians, those who have already let you down, and those who soon will.
Agreed. My opinion on this: Are Bitcoiners too uncritical of El Salvador and Nayib Bukele???
it is important to remember that the wealth hoarded by the rulers is not the wealth of the ruled. The wealth hoarded by the state is for the state, for its own benefit, and the people are not the state. Bukele will keep his bitcoin as long as he wants, and sell them at the drop of a hat when he deems it appropriate, and with that money he will do something good for the people, or not. It happens in every country in the world, and El Salvador will be no different. It reminds me of my fellow citizens when they say that public things "are theirs". No, my son, you only finance them, but they are theirs.
Exactly. Agreed.
I just want the "it's the free market, if you pay the fees you're in" folks to think about what would happen if someone goes to the theater, pays for their ticket, walks in and takes a shit next to the screen. As he has paid his ticket and there is no written rule that forbids it (he is complying with the rules), is it his right to do it?
I don't understand this analogy.
What do you mean? Do you think exchanging fiat for Bitcoin was like buying a theater ticket? And the person shitting next to the screen is like the sats/vbyte going up?