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This can be addressed. Protocols not platforms™. However, these protocols need to have spam mitigation mechanisms built it. We need "RPoW" tokens deployed ubiquitously.

Spam is the reason. Phone numbers are a costly resource to spammers. Having them permanently banned from Discord after spamming is a way to keep spam down quite a lot.

I've been working on this exact problem for years, and have solved it differently. If anyone is interested, here's the draft whitepaper on my solution: https://www.stampchat.io/whitepaper.pdf

C++'s compile times are caused by design issues. Dlang compiles nearly instantaneously (for example). Lack of modules, and abiguities in the syntax are roughly what causes it.

I've already built a fully working prototype of all of this, and am looking for funding to complete it. It also supports a number of other things such as pay-to-mail that have been talked about for years.

https://web.stampchat.io

Tipping is to incentivize personalized, special, service. The proliferation of it is because people forgot what it's for. Don't tip when you're a fungible customer.

What are you talking about? This works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization

The carbon without hydrogen produced CO, and it is burned to produce CO2, and that is used to actually heat the mixture.

They're shortsighted fools.

My first floor flooded on NYE. I'm not looking forward to Wednesday -- will likely flood again. Going to be a lot of $$$ to repair and fix the drainage.

Bitcoin can do that many transactions fairly easily with the changes we made for eCash. All the quadratic performance bottlenecks were removed.

Agree with you. However, Stamp is federated only for encrypted direct messages. The twitter-ish feeds are shared everything, and anyone can spin up a node. Anyone can post anything. Good luck taking it down from all the nodes.

That's the reason for the RPoW tokens, otherwise the platform would collapse from spam/DDoS.

Also, where you accept your DMs can move relatively quickly with the way the system is designed.

Yup. The UX is going to be tricky. In the system I'm building there's a shared-everything KV store that your client publishes to similar to their system. I've got a system worked out for recovering your account in a decentralized way if a trojan exposes your key. However, I think there will be a need for services that help with this.

This is a step in the right direction. Federated protocols that aren't moderated or controlled by private organizations is critical for free speech -- but I wonder how moderation will be handled on systems like this... It seems inevitable that it will still centralize around hubs which are efficient at keeping spam off, and that inevitably leads to other types of censorship.

I think they're spot on with needing control over your identity, and them being transferable. Being locked into <username>@host.com is a big pitfall of email.

I've been working on a similar federated protocol awhile which integrates Hal Finney's RPoW concept. Moderation isn't federated which is where it diverges from things like mastodon and bluesky.

Instead, you're paid in messaging tokens by the sender to keep spam off the platform. Tokens are free, assuming you don't need mass amounts of them to spam.

I'm hoping to find some other engineers that might be interested to help work on it. Can contact me Stamp at lotus_16PSJPAVocAM5behRWxqwQnpEVRPJrV4XxbthBhJR. (Human readable handles using DIDs are something we need to get working.)

https://web.stampchat.io

I've been working on an interesting concept precisely for this sort of thing. It's pay-to-post and DM authors in a decentralized and unmoderated way (moderation happens via the micropayments).

I cross-posted this blog over there:

https://web.stampchat.io/#/forum/014ad3ec1c9c5488af76abf68c7...

I am more concerned about the Ozone damage.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/147776209027688...

And that book has literally nothing to do with what is being discussed.

I would like to know what the Ozone impact these rockets will have is. It's my understanding that they burn quite a bit of the ozone up as they pass through; but my information could be wrong.

CBDCs will be an absolute disaster for personal privacy, and personal liberty. Piss off the wrong person in the right position and suddenly there's a "mistake" where you can't function at all in society.

I highly recommend Brett Scott's writing on this subject: https://twitter.com/suitpossum?lang=en

I have been working on a decentralized social media platform that uses a token w/o cash value as a reputation and moderation system. The goal is to avoid needing a centralized content moderator. I'd love to chat about it if it sounds interesting.

We're currently using a telegram group chat as groups are still in development, only direct messages work due to complexity around the encryption.

A link to our chat is here: https://t.me/stampchat

A description of how things work is here: https://www.stampchat.io/whitepaper.pdf

At least I had a role in electing the government and can change my vote based on their performance.

The real crux. You want control over what other people do.

This is a common mistake w/r/t Proof of Work. It doesn't prevent Sybil attacks. The Bitcoin whitepaper performs slight of hand to say "instead of identities, we'll use CPUs" which are obviously what Sybil attacks are in the first place. One person can own lots of CPUs... (Thus mining operations.)

What it does do is make Sybilers larger and larger shareholders in the network to make it so that the more you Sybil the network the less you'd want to try to damage it.

If this is a topic you (reader) care deeply about, I have been building an open source project to avoid having a centralized authority on messaging while also keeping out the endless spam you'd get on an unmoderated system:

https://www.stampchat.io/whitepaper.pdf

This is a paper I wrote on this topic and a proposed solution based on the work of Hal Finney. You might find it interesting:

https://www.stampchat.io/whitepaper.pdf

Except that basic income is a flat amount, and taxes are progressive and %. Thus, there's an equilibrium point. It doesn't cause some runaway inflation. It would also allow removing the minimum wage which would increase available low-skilled jobs.

This is caused by credit money. When you issue currency based on loans, there's always debt associated. For every dollar saved, more than a dollar of liabilities have to exist somewhere. Where's it go? People in debt (aka the poor).

It's very likely that Pearl Harbor was intentional to get popular support for entering World War 2. There's evidence that the president had been briefed on the attack and they intentionally did not move the fleet.

I do call it playing God. In California there are laws against littering and they are not enforced. You cannot regulate change into the hearts of men.

Repeating "ultrasound money" memes. That specific meme has to do with state level attackers blowing up mining farms. It has nothing to do with changing issuance. And the entire premise is that an external force comes in and tries to co-opt it.

That isn't relevant to the conversation of stakers having misaligned incentives to change the rules. The most a state level actor can do is censor transactions if they were to take over a chain.

With PoS you'd need to slash the validators stake on a fork; which isn't going to happen because the stakers run the validators everyone is using. You already saw this with the steemit takeover.

In PoW coins, the miners and validating economic nodes are two separate groups. Watch what happens when exchanges slip over to Eth2 nodes and call it Eth.

During the BCHA/BCH split the exchanges were the ones that decided the ticker. Most users have ZERO CLUE about what happened. They went on their with their lives calling the fork the exchanges chose BCH. Once exchanges are validators there is no bulwark against changes.

Those regulations are going to create as much cost on humans as leaving it to people like yourself who care.

Fixing the problem is up to you.

~"The reason things things never change is that those who stand to lose by change are the ones who hold all the power" -- Machiavelli

Create your own nature reserve for rhinos if you think it's so important. There are huge swaths of the US dedicated to nature reserves.

It is a scam -- all current crypto is a scam for the same reason. One of the other things that people don't understand is that currency and government are inseparable. When you buy Eth (or any other crypto) you're buying into a new system of government.

Do you want to be a citizen of that new government? What will they do for their citizens? Do they plan to build roads or anything else?

Seigniorage should go to the people not the capital holders.

Also, if people don't think there will be validators for each wallet with 32 coins -- which are producing Co2 -- then they are wrong. It just changes the game, not the incentives.