Trump believers, make you some extra money:
https://polymarket.com/event/will-trump-create-a-national-bitcoin-reserve-in-his-first-100-days
And the rest of the nation state maxis can also put their (fiat) money where their mouth is:
https://polymarket.com/event/will-a-new-country-buy-bitcoin-in-2024
"The" timeline doesn't exist. It's always *your* timeline.
Sorry, I see what you mean now. The relay would have to reject edit messages that are too late, because the client could be offline and doesn't get a timestamp from the relay, only from the sender. But people don't want smarter relays, so that's out of the question I guess.
Delayed sending on client-side is definitely better than not trying to solve it at all!
The edit window is always just a thing that clients do, see e.g. https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0308.html
The whole point is that it's not guaranteed to show the edit everywhere, and that clients can choose what they think is the most reasonable course of action.
It just means that the mentioned scam is not a good argument, since this is not happening on other protocols that support edits currently.
The edit window is always just a thing that clients do, see e.g. https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0308.html
The whole point is that it's not guaranteed to show the edit everywhere, and that clients can choose what they think is the most reasonable course of action.
That scam wouldn't work with a short edit window, which is exactly what all decentralized protocols with editing are doing.
You mean like he did when the EU told him to? With literal memes mocking them?
It's completely unrealistic that Elon will ban memes on his own platform. This is not a good argument against X or others.
Sounds a bit like "verifiable" refers to the network itself in this form. Maybe just use plural, i.e. Verifiable Communications Network? Not sure tbh.
I do like the clear statement of it being planetary, like the "Inter" in Internet or the "World Wide" in WWW.
Payments are also just communication. Money is pure information.
So you're thinking of it as a simpler and custodial forms of payment channels perhaps? E.g. I wouldn't immediately cash your zaps, but keep them for a while, and efficiency increases if I then cash them in all at once later?
Global network for verifiable communication: GNVC.
Oh, and for RSK you'd currently need ~18 entire RSK networks worth of liquidity.
For Lightning, that would be both liquidity and security (e.g. the election bet on Poly was the size of 9+ entire Lightning Networks).
For on-chain, the problem is how to handle the actual contracts and uncheatable/uncensorable payouts to thousands of addresses. For that to be decentralized you need more contract logic than bitcoin script provides. Likely a good idea to wait for a production-ready off-chain smart contract platform (based on whatever ZK proofs/rollups/etc.) to arrive. Or bite the lemon and deploy Poly contracts to RSK. 😅
That's fine for the oracle trust, but probably not fine for being able to run billion-dollar markets like the ones that exist on Polymarket.
How is credit to yourself useful? It's all in the same book, so any credit to yourself is automatically cancelled out by the debit. Maybe I'm missing something?
The government does not produce anything, so it also wouldn't get paid for mining bitcoin (except for potential taxes in EUR). But private companies are already starting to experiment with it: