Central banks acting responsibly is one of the side effects of healthy competition.

Bitcoin either uses so much energy it's going to end us or its footprint is small enough that most of the energy it uses can be stolen unnoticed. Pick one.

Bitcoin isn't mentioned in the article or summary. Technology glitches are supremely on topic for Slashdot. Sorry, the fiat system failed you though. Can we get an accounting of how much electricity was wasted trying to process those transactions?

Is this due to settings in the receiver that depend on spatial orientation? I can't imagine these satellites will be internally maintaining a list of which ids can communicate with them based on where they are in orbit.

Amazon should be broken up but until they are, I try to order from them as little as possible which isn't hard since there are many alternatives.

Of course the alternatives could be doing similar things. I'm sure Amazon would gladly sell this technology like everything else they do. Genius idea that. In any case, we have choices and should exercise them.

Yes, it's a protocol that creates a network of payment channels where instant settlement is possible. There are multiple inter-operable open source implementations and can be used now to buy gift cards and other things.
When you open a channel, that transaction hits the blockchain, but after that channel open has been confirmed, then channel functions as an entrypoint into the network and from there payments can be routed as long as a link with sufficient capacity exists. It's still in the build-up period but is useful now for $200 payments.

Bitcoin Lightning network can be anonymous for the payee and as with native Bitcoin payments, there's no information required of the buyer to accept their money.

Bitcoin's lightning network is better than Visa in that it requires no central clearinghouse, operates with Bitcoin natively, and any information about the sender of monies isn't available to the merchant.

Lightning hasn't reached critical mass so he probably wants to make sure Visa has a chance at being the paymetns rail rather than a decentralized layer like lightning which is the rather more obvious choice.

The premine and token sales definitely meet the definition of a security. Doubt SEC will be suing anyone in ETH-land, but anyone who receives that token should know they're supporting premined wealth.

The choice is not between ads and a hard paywall. This is an area where innovation is possible. Freemium, patronage, there are many possibilities. Can't speak for others but let me pay $10/year or $20/year for slashdot and other sites I frequent and I'll do it. As for advertising, there are plenty of interstitial advertising channels. With billboards, physical signage on pretty much every surface imaginable, radio/podcasts, a good product will not bear any paucity of customers. For decades now, ads have consumed my resources and exposed me to nefarious code, some of which is meant to run on or exploit hardcoded structures of my brain. no thanks.

The fix for this is ranked-choice voting which is happening for more offices and jurisdictions in the US all the time. In a nutshell it lets you vote for the person you really want and if they don't get the votes, your vote goes to your second choice. So no more spoilers. Plus it makes candidates campaign sometimes to be your second choice, acknowledging that your district may lean more toward a third party. https://ballotpedia.org/Ranked... The main problem in the US is representativeness of the government and many people are waking up to the system problems that got us where we are, for which there are real solutions at the ready.

If this app is so bad, why is it still available in app stores? Seems to me a problem better solved at the permissions and app store level. Permissions should be made simpler to view and manage. Apps should fail gracefully if disallowed a particular permission. Should also be possible to allow this once a permission that is as sensitive as reading the clipboard.

They're far less likely to face any antitrust action these days as that department is now an empty shell. If gov won't do its job, boycott is all that's left.

Or maybe it already has. I noticed what they did to their newer TVs and also wasn't terribly impressed with the Note 4 so went onto other brands a couple years ago. Just hoping my TVs are old enough not to be infected by the new Samsung organizational bug.

Just realized that I like consistency in answers to repeated questioning. If an AI doesn't seem to have its mind made up, I have a harder time believing what it says.