We also need a SCO Unix version. To go with the statue of Natalie Portman, naked and covered in hot grits

How can you invest in a country where your profits depend on the mood of the president?
Ask the oil companies about this. Or Steel. Or any industry that runs afoul of the crazy green enviro people

This is how the free market ACTUALLY works

Youre right about the crypto coin. He shouldn't be doing that. What he should be doing is creating paintings and selling those as an artist.

MAGA did not start the culture war. The left did when it wanted to redefine sex and and gender

Since when did /. start hating Elon? Every comment on this thread is hating on Elon in some way. What a bunch of cry babies

Here's how you do it: You call it disinformation.
Then you can deplatform it.
Are you new here?

The elephant in the room is that all of these services are "moderated". Which means CENSORED.

The people figured this out a long time ago. Only the blind whistle past this issue. Whether you like it or not, X is the only platform that allows free speech. On X, you can say whatever you want as long as it's legal. You can even express your hatred for Elon.

None of the other services operate like that. All of the rest censor hate speech, disinformation and all the other legal speech they just don't like. ie: they operate like Reddit

Credit card surcharges are illegal in many states. Instead, the vendor offers a cash discount. That's how it's done legally everywhere

That's a fancy long way of saying you are against free speech.

You and your ilk can go away, We will never accept your idea that free speech only goes one direction and is only for selected groups (like yours!).

Fair critique.
So who do you trust for something like this?

The word you're looking for is "GOVERNMENT" not corporate greed. Inflation is caused by having too much money chasing too few goods. Government prints the money and guess what? They printed a LOT of it during COVID. Now we reap what we sow.

It has absolutely nothing to do with corporate greed no matter how much you flap and wave your arms.

It has been an open secret in the cryptography community that Hal Finney was the designer of BitCoin from the very start. Hal died in 2014. Or at least he was frozen in liquid nitrogen so not talking either way.

Besides being the first person to be involved in BTC who didn't hide behind a pseudonym, Hal published a paper that describes essentially the whole BitCoin scheme two years before BTC was launched. And Hal never once accused Satoshi of stealing his work.

The reason Hal had to hide behind Satoshi is simple: The Harber Stornetta patent didn't expire until about 9 months after BTC launched. That covers the notion of the hash chain. There is absolutely no way anyone working in the field did not know about that patent or its imminent expiry. Hal certainly did because I discussed it with him before BTC was launched.

So the big question is why BTC was launched when it was, why not wait 9 months to have free and clear title? Well, Hal got his terminal ALS diagnosis a few weeks prior: He was a man in a hurry.

Having launched prematurely, Hal had to wait six years after the original expiry of the patent term to avoid a lawsuit over the rights to BTC from Surety. He died before that happened.

Oh and I have absolutely no doubt Hal mined the genesis blocks straight into the bit bucket. The key fingerprint is probably the hash of some English language phrase.

The real inventor of BitCoin wrote a paper describing the architecture two years earlier under his own name, Hal Finney. He got a terminal diagnosis of ALS a few months before he launched the BitCoin service, the pseudonym being necessary at the time because of the Haber-Stornetta patent on the BlockChain.

No, Hal, did not keep the coins. He invented BitCoin because he was a crank with weird ideas about inflation, not to get rich. Mining the coins and keeping them would have been a betrayal of his principles.

The proof of this is given by the fact that Hal did not in fact get rich from BTC despite being the ''second' person to join the project. Nor did Hal ever complain that Satoshi took the credit for what was very clearly his work. If Hal had been just another person coming along, there would have been every reason to keep the cash.

And we do in fact know Hal ran mining servers from the start and that he ended up in serious financial trouble due to his ALS. The freezing his head thing came from donations.

Craig Wright does seem to be the last of the three early advocates alive but that doesn't make him Satoshi. Wright has never shown the slightest sign of being the sort of person who builds such a thing and in any case, Hal's name is on the much earlier paper.

Worker owned coops are NOT competitive with private for-profit entities.