When that list reaches the length of https://web3isgoinggreat.com/web1, a great point will have been made.
Bitcoin has absolutely nothing to do with web3, so you provided an empty list.
Readit Newsnkuttler commented on Binance lays off over 1k Employees wsj.com/articles/binance-... · Posted by u/jason_zig
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nkuttler commented on Binance lays off over 1k Employees wsj.com/articles/binance-... · Posted by u/jason_zig
What exactly does it provide?
So far it seems that Bitcoin mainstream use is to create speculative markets. Any other intended objective is a drop in the bucket.
If your country's money and banking works for you I don't think I can explain to you why bitcoin is useful, you simply have no use for it. That your peers primarily use it for speculation says more about them than about bitcoin.
nkuttler commented on Binance lays off over 1k Employees wsj.com/articles/binance-... · Posted by u/jason_zig
> and is definitely not an enormous grift that's pouring lighter fluid on our already smoldering planet.
This is actually a worry i have about in regards to crypto, the BTC network uses a staggering amount of power.
Ai is next of my power hungry worry list.
> the BTC network uses a staggering amount of power
Actually, bitcoin uses a ridiculously small amount of power for what it provides. See for example here https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-energy/ for an introduction to clear up this misconception.
The one legitimate use case of using blockchain for decentralized digital currency ends up being used by everyone who can’t transfer funds using normal routes. So most of the people using it are either bad actors or speculators
Kind of like Tor. Bad actors ruin all kinds of things. People who only see technology will only go on to repeat the mistakes of the past because they lack the necessary domain knowledge to know better.
> So most of the people using it are either bad actors or speculators
"bad actors" according to their government, which could mean people who simply want the right to vote, or to live free from oppression, secret police, etc.
nkuttler commented on Mark Zuckerberg: “We’re moving very slowly” (2012) threads.net/t/CufIxkipyez... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Opened in Firefox, nothing (presuambly adblock), openened in chrome, HTTP 429. Haha.
nkuttler commented on Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake technicallychallenged.sub... · Posted by u/koinedad
Remember the 'What's a computer Ad' of iPad Pro from 2017?
I'm not saying that OP fell for that marketing and is gullible, but Apple marketed the iPad Pro as a replacement for a computer, so it may not be completely unreasonable to expect a reasonably similar experience on an iPad after 6 years and the n number of iPad generations that went by.
> Apple marketed the iPad Pro as a replacement for a computer
Nah, they were using an extremely narrow definition of computer, one where you can buy and consume stuff and do "cool" social media with the device. If that's not your use case you want a different kind of computer.
nkuttler commented on Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014) themarginalian.org/2014/1... · Posted by u/rzk
People ~~do~~ abuse drugs to escape seemingly-insurmountable problem(s) in their life.
"The opposite of addiction is connection" ——Gabriel Maté
I have been "clean" from a past life for 14 years. Every day is a challenge.
> People do drugs to escape seemingly-insurmountable problem(s) in their life.
Some people
nkuttler commented on GCC Adopts a Code of Conduct phoronix.com/news/GCC-Cod... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
You're entitled to an opinion about it, but a Slack bot that pings you when you say "guys" is not remotely comparable to bullying (which is the top-level claim in this thread).
> Hi! Reminder: “guys” is an inherently gendered term.
That's not a ping, that's imposing your language on others. A ping would be something like "guys is a gendered term for some people"
Isn't it a bit disingenuous to think that common people have moved $50bn in Bitcoin out of China? Or have moved ~$2.4bn worth of Bitcoin in Nigeria in a single month?
> A lot of people do actually have to face shitty systems where Bitcoin is a godsend.
I would say that a handful of examples, of which some are highly questionable, constitute anecdotal evidence, at best. Some of these scenarios are indistinguishable from using any other stable foreign currency, or even commodities, with the added difficulty of requiring certain technology literacy most people don't have.
> May I ask you where you were born and raised?
I could ask the same, because I haven't found many ardent defenders of cryptocurrency outside the tech circles of the so called developed world.
Not surprising, you live in a media bubble filled with people from the "developed world".