I apologise for my "but, actually...":

Analogue clocks like the face of big ben are not like digital displays, and whether they "show seconds" in the context of the meaning of this article is not, like digital displays, down to whether there is a dedicated hand.

Unlike digital displays, the largest denomination hand on an analogue clock display contains all of the information that the smaller hands do (depending on the movement in some cases).

The easiest way to realise this is to imagine a clock without the minute hand. Can you tell when it's half-past the hour? You can. The hour hand is half way between the two hours.

Again, it depends on the movement, but it is not out of the question that your minute hand is moving once every second, and not every minute. It is down to the number of beats per unit time for an analogue display as to what the minimum display resolution is (regardless of if the movement is analogue or digital itself).

How about metrics like answering the question of, "how much of the coin exists?" Or metrics like, "how understandable and simple is the overall protocol and mining scheme?" Or "has this chain ever broken it's own rules and rolled back transactions at the behest of its benevolent dictator?"

Spoiler: Bitcoin wins on all of those. The market cap is better for a reason.

That's because when most people use "blockchain" or "DeFi" they're using AML/KYC entities that post their transaction logs to public servers. Law enforcement eats this up because it saves them the trouble of getting warrants for investigations.

Bad for customers to be sure. Most have no idea what they're doing and have fallen for a scam hook, line, and sinker. They (loudly, incessantly) proclaim to their friends the benefits of a new money paradigm while deriving all sustenance through the umbilical cord of OldFi. ChromaFlair on a Model T.

The article itself is a hot mess of muddled thinking. It starts by talking about the Bitcoin white paper (not a "manifesto"), then asking the absurd question: "Why can't DeFi make good on the promise?" The reason is that "DeFi" is about as far from Bitcoin as "car" is from "carpet."

The Bitcoin white paper describes the application of proof of work to the problem of electronic cash. The vast majority of DeFi projects are just centralized ledgers operating through trusted institutions. They are the very definition of "mint" in the white paper - a single, corruptible player that sets the rules - arbitrarily if need be.

The key distinction is that PoW is permissionless, whereas PoS is permissioned.

Bitcoin is secured by hashpower, which is produced by physical capital outside the network. Nobody needs to ask for permission to start hashing and trade kilowatts for sats.

PoS networks are secured by on-chain assets. This means you can't "mine" it without first buying tokens from someone who already owns them. You need permission from an existing player in order to start participating.

Another aspect of this is 51% attacks are recoverable for PoW, but are a permanent takeover condition for PoS networks. If a single entity ever accumulates more than half the tokens on a PoS network, they are unassailable.

A nice Italian word that might be hard to translate is "ni" which means "yes and no" (literally first letter of "no" and second letter of "si", which means yes).

Often I hear English speakers use the answer "It depends." where an Italian would use "Ni."

" ['1', '7', '11'].map(parseInt);

For what you would expect the output to be:

[1, 7, 11]

However, things get a bit off here, and the actual result is:

[1,NaN,3]

At first, this may look up very weird, but it actually has an elegant explanation. "

The elegant explanation is that JavaScript was taken over by psychopaths like bajcmartinez.

JavaScript is fine for button onClick code. Outside of that it's garbage.

It is broken in Ethereum. In Ethereum, since consistency is enforced by transaction nonce rather than UTXOs, there is no way for a "watcher" to keep the payer honest by rebroadcasting a previously signed transaction output. Indeed, in Ethereum you can "cancel" a transaction in the mempool by signing a blank transaction with a higher fee and same nonce, which is by design.