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Bitcoin fails the howey test. so does doge, but its a joke cryptocoin. all other cryptocurrencies pass the howey test.

i had a similar thought. if the output of AI is ineligible for copyright that would basically make anything made from it defacto public domain. seems like the writers guild is striking down a path inconsistent with this logic.

keep performance enhancing drugs out of chess.

republicans lie. about everything. the party of freedom is the most interested in legislating womens bodies. the party of limited government is most interested in making government even more authoritative.

do you think its possible you have an observation bias? if you hate the space as much as you say you do, it seems like you may also have an information selection blind spot.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/1...

https://www.gigaenergy.com/

i think that this is an ever evolving space, and this crypto winter will last a few years, as things are torn down and rebuilt again, with better foundations. this company is just one example of many. people mine bitcoin from excess solar energy and tons of other examples.

https://freedomsolarpower.com/....

people are finding their way, chaos is at work and the market will find a balance. the path there will be volatile as change occurs, but every point of volataility strengthens an anti fragile system.

if you hate bitcoin its because you think its not just indifferent but actively malevolent, and with this i would strongly disagree. most people are convinced bitcoins proof of work is the source of its malevolence, but this is pure FUD. bitcoin uses energy to secure itself. any use of fossil fuels to that end is the cause of bad regulatory regimes which make fossil fuels cheaper than they should be. bitcoin exposes this and incentivizes a regulatory correction. moreover, bitcoin again offers a revenue source for off peak or low value energy sources that are valuable for energy production for human uses, but benefit from a source of revenue to pay for off peak or low value power.

bitcoin miners dont mine unless its cost effective to do so. if they are exploiting a loophole, the loophole should be plugged. proof of stake is always going to be bad because it leads to regulatory capture of the units of value. bitcoin is censorship resistant because of proof of work. proof of stake puts the power in the hands of the regulators.

the only reason to have this view is if you feel like regulatory capture and censorship is a REQUIRED FEATURE of a globally relevant currency and store of value. if someone holds this view, its obviously wrong.

why do you consider it wishful thinking? im confused about why a person would wish for ultimate failure of a free independant store of value currency. maybe you're talking only about all of the altcoins, and the ecosystem around them that has been bad. i hope you are not including bitcoin in your wishful thinking. bitcoin is an asset that offers significant value as a globally transferrable digital asset, when married with lightning network it scales past visa's transaction capabilities and speed. there has been a period where people used other cryptocurrencies to hype, many of them have been securities and scams, but bitcoin remains unique as a system where there was no premine and the founder has stepped away. bitcoin's founding cannot be repeated, its fair launch cant be repeated and continued adoption can be set by market rates. moreover, bitcoins proof of work serves to fuel revenue towards lower priced sources like renewables which often generate power when it isn't needed.

Let me point out, this isn't to help rural communities who have poverty problems. this is the information highway enablement for remote workers to come to your rural community and buy up the land and gentrify it, pricing out the locals from their own communities and locking up their natural resources behind gates.

exploitation never ends.

i dont think your imaginary platform exists as competition to twitch.

friendly comment, its just "Ukraine", since it's a country, not a region. its a habit many people have, just one worth working on disposing to align with their statehood.

I had read that Rogozin is being made Russia's administrator of the Russian occupied territories of Ukraine, so i don't think he's been ousted from much. maybe he's been put in a more troublesome permission because with any luck there will not be permanently occupied territories.

i guess what im saying is this news isnt exactly a celebration and the article makes it look like he's being ousted because of his bombast, when infact he's being moved and in some ways promoted to a more front line permission in russia's efforts against ukraine.

that said, rogozin may have to move offices to Mariupol, so putting him literally near the front lines, some may consider a russian disposal technique for people they want to get rid of/put in risk.

we'll see. he's a true bastard though.

what does COPA say their responsibilities are? And remember they don't have to operate at the minimum of COPA standard, they just have to meet and exceed that standard. Minecraft's revenue is driven by children, so protecting access to their revenue is going to drive their decisioning about protections they put in place.

so let me get this straight, they basically have a day in the US Senate where there's like 1 senator there from each side and they're supposed to object to each others bills, but tom cotton forgot to object, so this bill became passed by the senate?

does anyone else think thats fucked up?

this aligns with microsofts business interests. Satya has microsoft 100% laser focused on cloud use consumption and azure consumption. they only care about driving consumption of office 365 and azure and other associated services. right to repair in their hardware stack will make devices cheaper/easier to maintain and easier to stay integrated/grow their cloud engagement. so right to repair will be embraced at microsoft without a doubt.