@ksilverstein @Wave agreed
dragonsidedd
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@Saki @moneromaxi I’ve been casually watching the commits. I would expect scammers to do less actual code work than that.
“Why?”
Because it’s cool AF to make Things
https://www.cnet.com/culture/programmer-makes-original-doom-playable-on-pregnancy-test/
@Saki @tusker I happen to know the CEO of LBRY/Odyssee. He was very upfront about Odyssee being an ad-generation/metadata-sales company, when it was created in the face of LBRY slowly losing money.
Incredibly perverse, given Odyssee's marketing. Kinda like those slimy VPN companies that do protect you from your local Internet carrier... but not from their own advertising & tracking.
@rattie_ok @Saki The goal is a "Peer-to-peer electronic cash system". If and to the degree that such is realized, this goal has society-changing ramifications. It is money that plays by Internet consensus rules, not by coercive governmental ones.
Realizing this goal requires many design choices.
When faced with its (rather obvious) scaling problem, BTC chose not to change its design but rather to rebrand as "store of value" instead of "electronic cash".
That was the death of honest crypto.