1. I'm not in the USA and i'm licensed. You could say the ITU may take issue.
2. The spirit of the law is in regards to actual financial interest, this were meaningless amounts and also testnet.
3. Transactions were not actually done over Ham, the transaction data was relayed over ham and broadcasted via internet. (long history of HAM 3rd party message relay).
4. No encrypted messages were transmitted. (and encryption is allowed as long as the cypher is public)
5. The spirit of ham is technical experimentation.
6. These tests were intended for use in countries where the laws don't matter and or in emergencies. In case of emergency it would be allowed to make financial transactions and/or send encrypted messages.
I feel like most rhetoric around that is usual internet-lawyering. If Wired care to contact for comment there would have been some context added.
I think they are being over cautious (other implementations are not as concern), but yes still in testing. There are over 100 nodes, doing a bunch of transactions no money lost.
They should have replaced it with Lightning Network, is amazingly fast and cheap and works on top of Bitcoin. I'm running a test node, this stuff really works!
Lightning is a decentralized network using smart contract functionality in the blockchain to enable instant payments across a network of participants.
1. On top of that, there is also the fact that 100K new ppl move into the GTA every year. A good chunk of the wants to live in DT Toronto, further reducing the small supply;
2. Toronto produces 30% of Canada's economic output;
3. By many metrics, Toronto is extremely underpriced for the job and quality of life you get compared to other countries' largest cities;
4. Toronto is the 3rd largest North American city;
5. It's possible part of the prices are just tracking the USD as the CAD dropped ;and
6. The truth is, the majority of the Canadian population won't know/accept that in this single city people make 5-10x the income they make, hence "bubble" being thrown around as the obvious answer.
100% this, most people don't realize a lot of these corps are the "Jobs Programs". They take huge tax breaks to provide these 40/hr week unproductive boring jobs, or no one else will. In Canada we call them Banks and Telcos.
Just talking about search alternative; DuckDuckGo is my default search engine for over 2 years. It's incredibly good, the only caveat is you need to re-learn how to search. The same way you "changed yourself" initially for google.