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Comment Re:Do we know the geographical source? (Score 2) 63

The problem as always comes down to companies paying the bare minimum to make people show up and then complain about no one wanting to work anymore. Every quarterly report is looking better and better but when it comes to paying people there is strangely no money in the budget. Truck drivers are a good example. Ever wonder why so many drivers can't speak a word of English and have questionable legal status? Because they're desperate and willing to take the job at that pay rate.

Comment Re:Why would it be Linux based? (Score 1) 63

Sure there has been ARM64 windows for 5+ years, but it generally has poor reviews - compatibility issues (x64 emulation is only in userland so drivers won't work unless there's a native version), poor performance (mostly caused by emulation) etc.

Linux applications already natively support ARM64, and it runs the same kernel with the same drivers so most of these problems don't exist.

Apple are also in a much better place as they can mandate ARM64 as the only way forward. For Apple developers porting to ARM64 is a hard requirement unless you want to abandon your software, whereas for Windows developers porting to ARM64 is a cost with very little benefit. That's why virtually all mac software is now native ARM64, whereas for Windows it's a very small percentage.

Comment This is not about crypto (Score 2) 21

I can already, completely above-board, sell someone a block of DRS'd IBM shares for crypto if I want to. Let's all be clear this isn't about denominating stocks in Bitcoin.

Rather, this is effectively about recording stock transactions on a blockchain. Nothing more and nothing less than swapping a distributed transaction log for a traditional ledger.

The implication is clear, the SEC is at least considering the idea of creating shares as a token cryptocurrency. In this case, the tokens are backed by real shares. That's not a technical requirement, though, and a future company might someday skip the major exchanges entirely to list only as a token. To be clear, there's nothing sacred about the exchanges and their "house rules"; there's nothing inherently wrong with using a blockchain vs a ledger; and to reiterate, this has nothing to do with "buying stocks with Bitcoin".

On that last point, I consider OKXICE's decision to accept payment in some nondescript "stablecoins" as extremely unfortunate. Not because I'm a cryptophobe, but because it muddies the waters as to the viability of the core concept of tokenized equity itself - Though that's a bit of a tautology, given stocks are already "tokenized equity". Whether we denominate them in USD or BTC or cowrie shells is an entirely separate issue.

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