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Thanks.
I do see some of the trade-offs for both for and against, but feel hard to be persuaded that there'd be minimal risk. I know it's the age-old ossification debate, but I'm erring on the side of caution.
Sorry, I didn't mean you can answer that, was just wondering if developing a code-base (with growth in ai usage) is seen as a threat by proficient Bitcoin devs.
"Go ahead, do your worst… think of the scariest risk imaginable for covenants."
Questions, questions ..
to piggyback on what @justin_shocknet wrote about systems and languages ..
Would introducing covenants require adding code to the code-base? Before I would try to weigh pros and cons, I wonder whether:
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As AI becomes more useful as agentic systems development tools, what vulnerabilities might not be found and exploited by a human dev, but could by intelligent neural networks working for an adversary?
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Will there be certain unforeseen economic attack vectors, such as mempools becoming congested, as seen in the past, that would make the basic operation and utility become an issue? (again, thinking how an adversarial strategist may want to game and disrupt current usage. * I read you covered that, but just wondered if that is not a serious trade-off for you.
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Would covenants soft-fork increase overheads for running a node? Along with the whole core 30 changes. I guess I'm pretty decided that I won't be upgrading.
I know that the evidence indicates exactly this but would it be too wild to imagine that low-entropy keys would be perfect cover for both a clever exploit and a shadowy actor?
- Launch pool with cheapest input costs.
- Vertical growth of pool during time when many unsuspecting hobbyists are mining
- Pull rug
- Send out pleas as a cost percentage as cover
What's the line at the end of The Usual Suspects, the greatest trick the devil pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist?
I agree 100%. Can't say that I've given as much thought to the funding. I have difficulty understanding the machinations of how the said variations achieve their identical goal.
Good point about other authoritarian regimes. Part of the subterfuge that has taken me time to unravel is in the branding. Whether that be that of a representational (uni-party) democracy masquerading as a monarchy, or that of socialist extremism with contradictory technocratic/capitalist/mercantile characteristics.
The way that I see indoctrination work is through worship of icons that span generations, coupled with the marketing of bunk science, red-herrings causes that you've mentioned. Obviously, there's a need for loyalism of young and old alike (until we are all digital natives.)
Great comment.
I get where you are coming from. The second sentence helped me get your point.
Thanks for the reply.
I haven't seen this but it seems embarrassing that major networks like Netflix want to create a pseudo-documentary / commercial production on modern history to the present day on-going war. I don't subscribe there and though I've seen some entertaining stuff, I hear quite a few recent shows fray into the subliminal political programming area.
In what way would you say that South Korea or Japan is more fascist that say, the UK or France, today?
I often remember this. Question would be: Isn't communism defined as, the seizure of property to be used and directed by the state?
If the argument is that communism also adds, for the people/masses whatever, then both terms seem meaningless and can be covered adequately by, authoritarianism.
Phone charger, location unknown: Part 2
On swift retrieval of phone charger, a few days after (thanks to friendly bar-owner) charger was almost lost again, after celebrating relocation in new location.
Okay. I will stop there.
I was interested, until I saw the new products. Are Apple now going to focus on TV and Home Automation?
I used to use Apple's products much more but don't feel they are breaking any new ground these days.
bitcoin Twitter died.
I'm not sure what goes there now but I don't think of it as anything like ~2014-2020
I don't understand the logic of the argument that this is wrong everywhere.
I can agree that the general landscape of IP protection is killing entrepreneurship, but it seems that this is due to the rivalry that industries operate in today. This is just reality.
How many IP issues are filed in the opposite direction? I've heard of few over the last 40 years? Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not an expert on IP. Just seems that there's a huge imbalance in terms of deals that involve espionage, or IP appropriation through subsidiaries.
So, as well as IP issues, I guess we could call PRC's control of critical supply-chain industries, or their global mineral and data mining operations and as 'strategic' too.
I get the point that governmental role in private industry should be questioned. But in my view, unfortunately, it's necessary to look beyond the idealism of non-interference when adversarial state-owned and state-co-opted companies have unified goals and strategy.
I.e. Is there an easy answer?