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It breaks my heart

This is all a little dramatic, no? It's a cool app that can be easily updated to fix button accessibility.

Personal investors/prop traders have been able to short for years. Investors who aren't allowed/don't want to have direct custody of assets haven't been able to short until now.

https://proofofexistence.com/

What do you think about the Golem network/token? https://golem.network/

Does competence in front-end web engineering matter when you're building a decentralized supercomputer?

A couple of weeks ago I talked to the CEO of startup in NYC building a proprietary blockchain-like protocol/product for banks.

According to him if a bank interacts with the bitcoin blockchain in any way (mining and/or posting transactions), they are violating a host of AML and KYC regulations because they do not know the identity of other players on the network.

Apparently the claim could be made that the bank is collaborating with all other miners/transaction creators, and the bank must know certain information about these people. Also if someone posted a transaction from Iran, and the bank helped mine that transaction, that's a big problem.

I don't know if his logic is correct, but it seems many of those in the bitcoin community are underestimating the regulation hurdle that wall street will need to figure out.

The main reason I chose to buy BTC through Coinbase is because they're funded by A16Z and USV. Very prominent and influential investors that would also come under scrutiny if anything nefarious happened internally.

It's also the guiding principle in economics. People will always have infinite wants and finite resources.