In deep bear everyone whines whinges and cringes and then POP! BTC comes right back up again.

Yawn. We've heard it all before. I'll believe crypto is dead if it keeps heading downhill until 2040. This is just another part of the cycle. And crypto is far too useful (read: no banks!) to just toss aside.

I'll believe it when I meet them.
Cringe. These posts are Slashdot-unworthy.

...of course, has NOTHING to do with it. I mean, it's just maths baked into the coin code itself, right? Surely halving the supply every 4 years wouldn't create an ebb and flow cycle?

I sent a Sternly Worded Form to their trademark / copyright department, since this is clear abuse of the freedom and privacy both the Mozilla and Firefox logos represent. Feel free to pile on.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/...

If that's Ubisoft's take on things, Ubisoft needs to get used to the idea that they're on my ban list for the foreseeable future, together with EA and some others.

On a side note: gaming companies that create 'games' that drive you to buy upgrades or credits or extras because the game frustrates you (much like candy crush): is it still a game then? I game to relax and have fun, not get stressed. If a game stresses me, it's a compulsion, not a game.

The WSJ is just a mouthpiece of centralized technological autocracy (right, Amazon?). I like that we have so much competition. I like that we don't have an FTC that gets sued by both providers and lawmakers for trying to do its job. I like not having hidden fees on my bills, and being able to quit when I want, without repercussions. And if that slows down network rollouts a bit, so be it. I really, really don't need 5g anyway. Maps, chat and browsing work perfectly fine on 4g. 5g will come. Sod technical autocracy. Make sure there's competition, and plenty of it.

https://support.reddithelp.com...

Tell them we'll close our accounts. Maybe a few hundred thousand people threatening to leave will wake them up. I'm actually seriously considering it. I love(d?) reddit, but.. not gonna be worth it if it's their way or the highway. Time for some more... decentralized options.

WINE gaming has become so good now that you can run most steam / epic games fairly easily from linux. And with a little work Ubuntu and several other distros are really nice to live with. I think it's definitely matured into a very nice OS - and it keeps improving instead of devolving or trying to reinvent the wheel time and again for no obvious reason other than upgrade trends.

Seriously, if you're sick of Windows and have a little computer skills, Ubuntu can cover your bases well enough. It's not perfect, but it's better than Win11. Just migrate gradually (dual boot or whatever) so you can slowly customize it to your needs. And document what you change so you can review it later or rebuild if you need to.

They ain't part of the EU anymore, so shut up.

On a more practical note.. if 'piracy' is so widespread, maybe it's time for content creators to switch to a more pragmatic model - like setting a financial target for a series and relying on pledges to get the amount they need to produce it, and then once produced, just make it public and let everyone download it.

The copying of information is built into entropy and universal laws. Kids copy behavior, we copy ideas, cells copy dna. It's everywhere. Stop swimming upstream and work WITH it instead of against it. End the stupid control models and free up all those lawyers and judges to go do more important things, like preventing online harassment.

You know, I think I'll stick to buying 20 year old cars that I can still repair and tweak myself.

They'll likely haul them in for deceptive practices...

As usual, he's got his head up his ass - and appears to be parrotting the same shit the gov't does. Munger doesn't even warrant a response.

- hedge against inflation (relevant? now? maybe?)
- not controlled by malevolent governments who are ultimately just serving the interests of the in-crowd
- transfers of funds in seconds across the world for almost no fees (try that with banking!)
- complete transaction trail
- possibility to lock agreements digitally with smart contracts
- irrefutability
- integrating extras: you can add a PDF of your invoice for example, or a video of the product you sold, why can my bank still not do that?

In other words, the INTRINSIC VALUE of cryptos - which he completely ignores - lie in their functionality.
Let me repeat that.
The VALUE of a coin lies in its FUNCTIONALITY.

Yes, BTC is currently power-hungry. And it will likely either migrate to PoS or fade over time. Newer blockchains aren't hampered by such constraints. There's a lot of really good work being done. Cardano especially, with its peer-reviewed and scientific approach, is a slow-but-steady supercontender.

Ok so he wrote a few more posts than that - sorry didn't see his other content (before you bash me :P). Point still stands. Decentralised crypto is the future. Which one will stand the test of time remains to be seen.

Some moron who wrote about 6 blog posts is suddenly /. prime? Seriously? Which jackass swiped this up to the front? It's one of many articles that has me questioning /. and its "corporate overlords" lately. Crypto's have plenty of problems, but at least they're not centralized. It's both their strength and their curse. It would be fantastic - in theory - if we could use a currency on a secure platform that can't be controlled. Yes, there will be plenty of tech problems to resolve and stability to guarantee. But I'm not going soft on it just yet.