The Montana state legislature voted to ban TikTok in the state. The bill would prevent a company from allowing people in Montana to download the app.
https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2023/billpdf/SB0419.pdf
The bill states that the reasoning is because 1) China is an adversary to the U.S. and 2) TikTok promotes harmful behavior and collects data on users.
It was sponsored by a Republican and mostly passed by Republicans. Most Democrats opposed it but were outvoted. It still needs to be signed by the governor, and it would be open to court challenges.
I don't like TikTok, but that's not a promising snapshot for where lawmakers are in terms of software control.
I agree but in this case I think that TikTok represents negative value compared to free and open source software like Bitcoin. TikTok is a closed source centralized application that spies on users and frequently generates pedophilic content
Hey thanks for the message, the sketchboard I posted should be public. Could you let me know what happens on the browser when you tried?
Atomic Swaps are a fundamental cryptographic protocol for the future of cryptocurrency.
This model relies on some primitives used heavily by Bitcoin such as Elliptic Curve Cryptograph and Schnorr.
Here is my *rough* detail of the protocol, note there are other implementations out there. I consider this to be an Schnorr-Pedersen Atomic Swap:
https://sketchboard.me/FDKP1jt0YUUu#/
this is a work in progress write up that is subject to change
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