yeah, I just wish Bi/tcoin was a real thing so I could use it
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Well, I use it, and I've spent some of it directly on newegg.ca in the past. It sucks they've ended up stubbornly not scaling up the block size as planned because it's increasingly less viable for direct purchases without high fees, only slow transfers are cheap.
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I hate exchanges, and don't trust them one bit. I was previously beginning a process of slowly getting ~1000 USD at a time turned into CAD and deposited into my bank account, and the exchange that I was using (Quadriga) finished an exit scam right before I sent them another 1k.
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I do think that it's the best way to receive donations in practice. People can send donations with incredibly low fees and you don't deal with chargebacks or disputes since payments can't be reversed. Can use btcpayserver.org if you want to hide how much you're receiving.
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my problems with Bi/tcoin are primarily political in nature (it's extremely destructive and also totally controlled in practice by like five guys who want to launder money from China, both bad long term outlook); I have used it extensively and know what it's capable of
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Bitcoin isn't very private at all even when not reusing addresses but I would like it far more if it was. I see support for laundering money as a necessary evil similar to criminals benefiting from end-to-end encrypted messaging. I do agree proof of work is a serious problem.
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Balance is opposite for communication vs exercising economic power. e2e comms proportionally benefit those without power more. Money laundering protocols proportionally benefit the extreme wealthy much more.
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yeah no, KYC/AML regs benefit the extreme wealthy because they have ways to dress up anything they want so it looks good. a woman in Belarus who needs to pay rent doesn't
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Re PoW, have you seen Algorand? Very interesting idea IMHO
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So, I've read about @Algorand new blockchain technology, with Tal Rabin on board.
Executive summary of the core new idea.
But first, admirable work. Short technical paper, longer rigorous paper, sensible safe programming language for the implementation.
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One issue with many of these approaches is that they often can't support cold storage and encourage centralization since people want to earn money from PoS but don't want / can't run a dedicated machine all day to do it for them. Don't know details of that approach specifically.
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The equivalent to mining pools to get a portion of the income without owning huge amounts of the currency is to keep your money in a bank. Even if it doesn't incentive pooling, you'd generally not be able to use a proper hardware wallet with confirmation and passphrase support.
You can have multisig allow you to use this coin to vote for the next vote, but not to transfer it, and then use HW wallet for the other sig.
BTC is skewed towards people with cheap electricity and with access to the very centralized (literally one company IIRC) that makes the HW
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Maybe, if that can be turned into a practical scheme where you have a separate seed for staking able to derive all the staking keys deterministically. PoS ends up leading to centralized banking from what I've seen though, and it would be important to make the alternative trivial.