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Mathematics is the most science and least art form possible.

Every other field of study has more artsiness than Mathematics.

However, Mathematics also still has a lot of artsiness to it.

No, if that wasn’t an option, then the root causes such as wasteful spending, not holding politicians accountable, student loan crisis wouldn’t even happen in the first place, because those that are committing those misdeeds currently are the same that are printing the money.

It might be an extreme problem to you, not to everyone else.

So mass inflation is only an extremely problem to me? This is probably the most false claim possible.

This has been solved again and again by different companies, be it wise.com or others

Except they constantly freeze user accounts for no reason.

Except for the fact that nobody can get their money back after they have been scamed. There is no authority to complain to or reverse a transaction. Wich makes it useless for the masses.

Of course there is, all the exchanges have to comply by with law enforcement and that’s what they are doing. This way, since the transactions are all public and can be traced endlessly it’s very difficult to evade law enforcement through scams.

Thats also why this $4.5B scam was caught https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-09/nyc-coupl...

That is the case, because Engineers have a bad understand of global finance, business and money.

That’s why they don’t understand the problems that crypto is solving.

If you look at the comments here, you’ll see that many comments are saying that crypto isn’t doing anything useful.

However, crypto is literally solving the extreme problem of infinitely printable FIAT money and very slow and expensive cross-border transfers, which might be the most impfactful invention of the last 2 decades.

On top of that, crypto adds transparency, accountability, interoperability, decreases fraud in every possible market.

However, hacker news doesn’t understand that, because they simply don’t global finance, global markets, business and moneys.

How so, NFTs are exactly about requiring to own a picture to use it and that nobody else can use it.

Crypto is exactly about strengthening copyright.

The issue is you have built in a mechanism to prevent the site from gaining critical mass.

In order for a user to check the site, there would need to be 50 posts from their friends that they can read through.

For that to happen, they would need 500 friends for them to make 50 posts a week.

In order to reach 500 friends, you would need 100 million users, before that the network would be empty with nothing happening.

It’s better to limit the number of posts to 1 per day.

This way, you would be able to have some stuff going with 50 friends in some areas and 3 million users.

However, you need to get to 3 million users somehow with no value in your network, maybe you can get this through posts like this, but very difficult.

You also need to let users upload their contact list otherwise you won’t be able to build your social graph.

A Twitter with unlimited speech will become a racist and propaganda hellscape.

Imagine Trump will be brought back on Twitter, he’ll radicalize 40% of Americans into QAnon disciples and try to topple the United States government again. He’ll have thousands like him joining in in spreading mass amounts of fake news exactly like the Russian propaganda machine.

You’ll see extreme science denial, a boatload of new Covid myths, drinking bleach, Ivermectin, Covid is just the flu propaganda all over again, just 5 times worse.

I’m building a game like this right now with a small team. It takes place in an O’Neill cylinder and if you die, you die. The goal is also to survive for months, which allows a player to make their character much strong that starters and have much better equipment. It also makes them targets though, so they need to build a tribe that protects them.

The game is built in Unreal Engine 5 with hyperrealistic graphics.

It’ll go live in a couple of weeks for alpha testing, so if you want to test the alpha, you can sign up on the website. https://extrastar.wixsite.com

Your arguments are mostly usability. However, there are already many services that gives you additional utility such as insurance, backups etc.

Crypto already has replaced money in several countries, especially third world countries where it has replaced money for 30% of the population that have protected their funds against inflation thanks to the inherent scarcity of respective cryptos.

1 is questionably valuable and arguably harmful If it’s mutable, it’s centralized, so you’re wrong.

2 is increasingly untrue

That’s also incorrect, Ethereum has become more decentralized every year

3 and 6 aren't inherent benefits of Ethereum and 5 aren't true Yes they are. Ethereum is deflationary and will became three times more inflationary later this year.

7 is speculative and begs the question.

No speculation here, check here yourself for just a small overview https://www.defipulse.com/

Except beanie babies have no inherent value, but ETH has vast inherent value in numerous ways

1. Immutability

2. Decentralization

3. Cheap, fast, secure cross-country money transfers

4. Protection against inflation

5. Independence of banks or arbitrary freezes of your funds

6. Access to a vast variety of financials services

7. Is quite likely the replacement of money

The fact that people still don’t get that in 2022 is astonishing.