Don't be ridiculous – no one can do that

I'm not convinced that a chain is any better than a Merkle tree updated through an API. Allowing transfers to be conducted by non-issuers is powerful, but only if the issuer honors them. Instead of knowing right away with an API, a chain puts the burden of KYC onto individuals who must now decide whether future chain analysis will determine the potato they're accepting is hot.

Stablecoins are a CBDC: each has one corporate issuer in a specific country that will bend to state financial regulations

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A stablecoin only has one issuer, and it's not your bank

Except paper

Remove PoW and you have Merkle trees, which are transparent and verifiable

This is a strawman argument: the alternative is a well run, KYC'd as legally necessary API

If it doesn't work over tor, does it even matter? Where are our non-LNURL zaps? Can we get a DNSSEC variant of NIP-05? Why are relays still identified using DNS?

LLMs are amazing, but give credit where credit's due: people have been doing this by hand since the dawn of time

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Hah, no, you don't drive the price up to get people to sell, you just keep driving it down. With a small market cap and without traditional financial regulations it can be surprisingly easy. At some point people cut their "losses" and you can buy their coins for cheap.

But really, when the only people using it are "interesting", it's a valuable signal! Why would you get rid of that?

Epic hack

I don't recall ISPs censoring things, though I agree this trend isn't new or specific to a political party

Is this semantically meaningful?

https://m.xkcd.com/927

One connection pulling a reliable feed for the whole phone isn't the same as a dozen apps trying to do the same

This isn't about what their opinions are, it's about the government directly reducing their right to have them. Look, I went to a school that's basically an arm of the DoD – I have no misconceptions about funding coming with strings. I'm just observing the current political climate

If the wealthiest, most politically connected institutions in the country don't have freedom of speech, no one does

Two weeks ago: "It's just non-citizens, and they aren't protected by the 1st amendment"

Today: "Harvard must comply if we intend to “maintain [our] financial relationship with the federal government.” It makes clear that the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism in a cooperative and constructive manner. Although some of the demands outlined by the government are aimed at combating antisemitism, the majority represent direct governmental regulation of the “intellectual conditions” at Harvard"

https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/

Laptops are lame. For the cost of a fancy new MBP I sourced some used EPYC gear from eBay and have 128 3Ghz cores with a TB of memory. There are many ways to shut things down. If someone told me to shut down Monero, a 51% attack would be pretty low on my list. It has a pretty low market cap, so probably cheaper to alternatively dump and quietly buy coins to manipulate the price down to nothing. That's pretty demotivating, so people would probably move on

There's no such thing as "ASIC resistence". The idea was first popularized by scrypt, but it turns out you can also add a lot of RAM to an ASIC. A few GB isn't even that much anymore. Monero adds some algorithm randomization, but you can add an FPGA to your ASIC... Essentially people can build new ASICs faster than you can get a new PoW adopted