As soon as any asset is outside of the blockchain, or the blockchain contents do not meet the future projections
This doesn't follow. Real Goods are already managed on symbolic systems, but the difference is that ethereum offers the possibility of managing these scarce resources in a more efficient and effective way. It's not perfect, though, and there is competition. But the key here it is serves as an alternative to these other symbolic systems - a system that can lay claim to resources, and allow for trade and ownership of them in a way that can be scaled to the global level.
the whole contract model collapses in on itself.
this definitely doesn't follow. One bad contract does not negate the whole model.
If there is literally no ETH in the account to fulfill the future contract, how do you go about restitution?
Again, it's a badly written contract. You're using a strawman contract here. You don't get restitution. It's a risky bet.
Yeah no shit there's "dark money transactions"...that's kind of the point to have snoopy people like you not have a clue what we're buying. Which, is going to include a lot of things like paying day to day bills, settling personal debts, buying gifts and household goods, education related services, health, etc, etc, etc. All the data I've seen suggests that drug/ransom is an insignificant fraction of txs, but importantly: the data *does not* support the claim you just made. For all you know, most bitcoin is still buying bedsheets at overstock.com.
You're writing as if no trade whatsoever is happening with cryptocurrency. This is clearly not the case. If it facilitates trade that wouldn't otherwise happen, then it's working. And the marketcap shows roughly how much trade that is.
Would be for an ethereum client to be available in thedebianecosystem. At least from the debian perspective, ethereum is dependencies piled on top of dependencies, none of whom have been properly vetted, and some of which have recently been shown to be actively malicious.
From people who are actually local to whatever story is happening. Or people who have a say about issues that require research.
Which thanks to social media, you can actually find.
It's not like the 1980's where only newspapers could have the organizational chutzpah to have people in the countries they were covering. It takes about a dozen clicks to find someone, and it's free to talk to them, to get a local PoV.
Put pressure on your congressmen to stop NAFTA! Trump getting out of NAFTA before NAFTA2 comes into effect will mean you have a real chance to not only stop NAFTA2, but to stop NAFTA in one fell stroke! Call your congressmen! Get everyone you know to call your congressmen! NAFTA can finally be stopped!
Taler's design explicitly tries to block opportunities for tax evasion
In other words, whatever government has the ability to use this will have advantages over other governments who might try to claim citizens against it. It is intrinsically set up *against* the possibility that we might overthrow our government and replace it with a more democratic one. You might think that things are going swell with Trump/Queen Elizabeth/Merkel/whatever but we have seen how fast governments can go autocratic and you do *not* want to lock in government's ability to surveil and tax *at the payment layer*.
Right now a lot of crimes like kidnapping for ransom are effectively impossible to do
This is hogwash. It is definitely still possible to do, but requires that you have your shit together, just like it did in the 70's. People are still kidnapped every day. Here's today's
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All proprietary software, grindr included, should be automatically considered negligent and unsafe, period.
That would be a yes. Trying to give basic income to dead people doesn't help anyone.
All the more reason to get this content via tribler.
Naked bittorrent is very trackable. Tribler on the other hand...is a step or two away from that.
They are under fire for not cooperating enough with the big brother
FTFY
As soon as any asset is outside of the blockchain, or the blockchain contents do not meet the future projections
This doesn't follow. Real Goods are already managed on symbolic systems, but the difference is that ethereum offers the possibility of managing these scarce resources in a more efficient and effective way. It's not perfect, though, and there is competition. But the key here it is serves as an alternative to these other symbolic systems - a system that can lay claim to resources, and allow for trade and ownership of them in a way that can be scaled to the global level.
the whole contract model collapses in on itself.
this definitely doesn't follow. One bad contract does not negate the whole model.
If there is literally no ETH in the account to fulfill the future contract, how do you go about restitution?
Again, it's a badly written contract. You're using a strawman contract here. You don't get restitution. It's a risky bet.
Yeah no shit there's "dark money transactions"...that's kind of the point to have snoopy people like you not have a clue what we're buying. Which, is going to include a lot of things like paying day to day bills, settling personal debts, buying gifts and household goods, education related services, health, etc, etc, etc. All the data I've seen suggests that drug/ransom is an insignificant fraction of txs, but importantly: the data *does not* support the claim you just made. For all you know, most bitcoin is still buying bedsheets at overstock.com.
We are running out of *nice*, easily processed sand. We can make sand, it just takes energy.
And if we run out of sand, we've got plenty of rock to make more sand.
Then get the nuclear reactors going. There's time.
Especially given we're at the part in an 11 year solar cycle where it's *supposed* to be getting cooler than the year before.
You're writing as if no trade whatsoever is happening with cryptocurrency. This is clearly not the case. If it facilitates trade that wouldn't otherwise happen, then it's working. And the marketcap shows roughly how much trade that is.
Why should this kind of contract exist? It screams "scam"
Would be for an ethereum client to be available in the debian ecosystem. At least from the debian perspective, ethereum is dependencies piled on top of dependencies, none of whom have been properly vetted, and some of which have recently been shown to be actively malicious.
From people who are actually local to whatever story is happening. Or people who have a say about issues that require research.
Which thanks to social media, you can actually find.
It's not like the 1980's where only newspapers could have the organizational chutzpah to have people in the countries they were covering. It takes about a dozen clicks to find someone, and it's free to talk to them, to get a local PoV.
"Oh yeah, it's totally dead" - 2011
Put pressure on your congressmen to stop NAFTA! Trump getting out of NAFTA before NAFTA2 comes into effect will mean you have a real chance to not only stop NAFTA2, but to stop NAFTA in one fell stroke! Call your congressmen! Get everyone you know to call your congressmen! NAFTA can finally be stopped!
Taler's design explicitly tries to block opportunities for tax evasion
In other words, whatever government has the ability to use this will have advantages over other governments who might try to claim citizens against it. It is intrinsically set up *against* the possibility that we might overthrow our government and replace it with a more democratic one. You might think that things are going swell with Trump/Queen Elizabeth/Merkel/whatever but we have seen how fast governments can go autocratic and you do *not* want to lock in government's ability to surveil and tax *at the payment layer*.
What are you talking about. ZCash is not premined.
...it's not in debian stable yet. So it's good for playing around with/experimenting. Soon though.
Right now a lot of crimes like kidnapping for ransom are effectively impossible to do
This is hogwash. It is definitely still possible to do, but requires that you have your shit together, just like it did in the 70's. People are still kidnapped every day. Here's today's
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Should have only done this to one twin, imho, it would be a great case study on side effects.