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kf commented on Ask HN: How do you process payments?    · Posted by u/c0restraint
seibelj · 6 years ago
You are a brave person, thanks for sharing.
kf · 6 years ago
I've been meaning to try and fix the wikipedia article again. I last did that and got into an obnoxious fight with jytdog. I heard a couple months ago that he dox'd and called to harass a wikipedian and then deleted his account ahead of anticipated punitive action. Without that person spending 80 hours a week to advocate his particularly narrow anti-plant medicine interpretation of what is correct with regards to medicine, biochemistry, and pharmacology on wikipedia, editing it again might actually accomplish something. I think I and many other editors that went up against jytdog are still carrying trauma that makes me reluctant to reengage but it's about time to try.
rms commented on MYOB Is Hiring    · Posted by u/Cyrelle
rms · 6 years ago
not a YC company? they maintain a monopoly on job hiring posts on this site, you can however make the "monthly" hiring thread and post there
kf commented on Ask HN: How do you process payments?    · Posted by u/c0restraint
kf · 6 years ago
The FDA/DEA have waged war on the kratom industry in extralegal fashion; I've had my personal bank accounts and credit cards shut down without explanation via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point.

With Operation Chokepoint over, the DEA/FDA still have colluded to prevent the kratom industry from processing credit cards. For my website www.getkratom.com, we take checks, echecks, and cryptocurrency. Sales are about 1/3 of what they were when we were able to take credit cards.

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rms commented on Valuing Cryptoassets from the Ground Up   medium.com/@sall/valuing-... · Posted by u/msall
XR0CSWV3h3kZWg · 7 years ago
Bitcoin is pretty bad at offering advanced securities or derivatives.

Really bitcoin is pretty bad at everything except atomic transfers.

Bitcoin is shit at loans, it's shit at writing wills, it's shit at scheduling payments, it's shit at offering shorts, it's shit at offering options, it's shit at providing oracles etc.

rms · 7 years ago
Right. I imagine a future where AI capital entities just hold bitcoin and never do anything with it other than hold it forever to secure the things they're doing on the advanced financial platforms of the future.
rms commented on MobileCoin has raised $30M for private mobile payments   techcrunch.com/2018/04/24... · Posted by u/rms
coolspot · 7 years ago
Street-level drug dealers would love secure and anonymous mobile payment platform for b2c and b2b settlements.
rms · 7 years ago
In the USA at least, it still exists, and it's called cash.

If cash were invented today, it would be illegal. For most small payments if not large transfers, in the USA consumers actually have the right to transact anonymously. Tracking micropayments publicly forever on a blockchain seems like a step backwards. Being able to track large transfers on a blockchain is one of the benefits of living in the world where the Byzantine General's Problem has been solved.

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