Some would be individuals and some would be businesses, IMO. Grey area.
Thoughts on .BTC domain names via https://btc.us/ ? Is it a decentralized and censorship resistant DNS?
Looking at the mempool.space goggles and seeing blocks filled up with so many inscriptions and hardly any coinjoins makes me wish I could just reset humanity.
Don't host your "free speech protocol" instances behind a domain that's controlled by the Taliban...
https://www.404media.co/taliban-shuts-down-queer-af-domain-breaking-mastodon-instance/
I suppose it depends on the type of content. Once the US and its vassals (almost every other nation) heavily restrict “dangerous” content like Bitcoin privacy protocols, open source AI models, weapon models etc. the Taliban’s domain might end up one of the last refuges.
Seeing a lot of opinion articles state, "Texas can't secede. It's against the law."
No kidding. Has any nation ever seceded from its parent legally?
Not long. Jet powered drones are on the way too, which have the potential to target aircraft by design given their speed potential. DIY anti-aircraft drones will likely be a thing. https://www.intelligentliving.co/jet-powered-drone-fly-over-300-mph/
Higher. You’ll have to use it to pay taxes, registration fees, etc. Only way to not use it would be to move out of the US to a nation that isn’t a US vassal.
Ecash mints need to periodically rotate the private keys they use to sign ecash so every ecash opendime would have an expiration date. Also, consider you are loading custodial bitcoin IOUs onto hardware, so there's no guarantee it will still be valid when you go to spend. There is also no way to audit the ecash on the device, so you have to spend it to validate it. I think the tech is just not suited for this use case. Better to load bitcoin onto physical hardware: it never expires, is trustless, non-custodial, easily audited.
Further reading: https://gist.github.com/callebtc/ed5228d1d8cbaade0104db5d1cf63939
Thanks! Do federated e-cash mints also rotate keys? Maybe a federation would also give someone more confidence that an IOU handed over via Opendime would be valid for longer.
Yet another near miss. The author delivers a damning, well-researched indictment of crypto, but fails to grok that Bitcoin is not.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-cruelty-of-crypto-in-its-promise-to-revive-the-american-dream
There isn’t a lot of time in Bitcoin’s history where you could have bought and be in the red right now.
Hope to see more sentiment like this in El Salvador, where a Bitcoin user survey showed low and decreasing usage mostly due to privacy concerns. Many people will probably just continue to not trust something they can’t physically hold and hand over in a transaction though.
Looks like many foolishly used it as an investment rather than as a tool. 🤷♂️
Sucks that it’s a result of fear of regulations though.
Not generally a fan of altcoins, but it’s sad that exchanges delisting Monero because of regulations made its value drop so much. Cryptocurrencies, especially privacy-focused ones, are designed to resist government regulations on money, not comply. Blockchain technology sucks if you’re just going to comply.
Open source project idea: Combine solar-assisted drones like this with a mesh network, where the drone carries network node hardware and can be deployed to a rooftop or other high point. Multiple drones could be programmed to fly out and land in strategic locations to quickly set up a mesh network that can stay up for some time with solar power. Haven't seen anything like this outside closed military industrial projects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAw7hD2ApWA
Thoughts on CLN with CLBOSS? Does it make good channel choices for a routing node?
Need a convenient way to determine a coin you’ve been handed hasn’t already been redeemed/moved out of the mint.
Is there any workable way to make physical e-cash tokens? Would it basically be an Opendime?