>As far as I can tell, hundreds of millions in drugs and contraband are regularly transacted using Bitcoin
What a hilarious claim. Everything else you've said just confirms you've fallen for the "BTC bad" narrative. I wonder how you feel about you-know-who printing unlimited toilet paper money for their own benefits.
This whole public lynching of Stallman out of absolutely nowhere is suspicious. Hell, even corporations that barely even donated to FSF is virtue signaling. They're all saying the exact same thing about Richard.
Stallman was always right and what's happening now really makes it look like he's on a hitlist.
>There was no immediate explanation provided for the blaze, which erupted just two days after the French cloud computing firm kicked off plans for an initial public offering.
Yep RenVM is a big deal. Iirc they had something called Cafe which demonstrated turning your bitcoins into a privacy coin, ZEC. I remember when REN was only 5 cents. Amazing how much it costs to run a darknode now! Truly a successful project.
Also another cool dApp is DyDx, margin trading platform
This is so cool, I can't wait to see a multiplayer adaption now that it's open-source! Oh please reverse engineer GTA:IV and bring it back to life as well
You're looking at it from a totally wrong perspective. The U.S. government can print as much dollars as they want, whereas BTC cannot. The government does not care about green energy unless they can profit from it. To say that you did not buy BTC because of "wasting energy" is a very odd way to cope.
You guys are so hung up on energy consumption, a meme, that you're forgetting the real intrinsic value of Bitcoin.
It's hilarious to see the naysayers about Bitcoin say that BTC is not usable. Now it's worth almost 50 grand and all they can come up with is expensive transaction fees which in hindsight, are really not that expensive, and the energy consumption of maintaining the Bitcoin network.
It sure is a lot better than using human lives, usually & most likely forced labor, to mine real Gold. Right? After all, energy is free when you're using solar power to mine your Bitcoins or any other coins. Does the energy really goes to waste when it provides heating? Etc?
It just seems like people are running out of excuses at this point. I wonder what they'll be saying when BTC hits $100,000.
Personally, I've just come to terms HN is good for tech news. There's always some good people calling out any bullcrap in the comment sections which is wonderful, but when it comes to sharing opinions, it just feels like a karma battle. A similar reason why I ditched Reddit years ago.
I've often shared genuine questions and thoughts before on HN with other accounts and always found myself getting absolutely karma destroyed. It was very discouraging, so now I just really don't bother engaging anymore. This was my same issue on Reddit. I (shamefully) admit I find myself even reading discussions on 4chan where there is no point system, but I see the problems with that: mass trolling
My journey to programming all began with RuneScape private servers in mid school. It was my perfect creative outlet because I always wanted to get into programming, I loved MMOs, and it just so happened that RuneScape had a legit full-on underground private server reverse-engineering community.
What better way to program than learning how to create your favorite MMO from complete scratch? (With all the documents provided & the active help of fellow others).
The RSPS scene was really big, active, and very competitive. What was so fun about this is that the private server communities always encouraged users to share data resources, programmijg tutorials/snippets, and reverse engineering documentation of the game so that way it helps everyone that's trying to program their own server. Everyone wanted that "Java Developer" icon next to their forum name, and to do that was to contribute back. There's only one community standing left and it's an absolute gold mine of programming & game-development information [1]
It's a very niche community, but back then anyone could spin up a server and quickly have 50+ players actively playing within a week, and because of that, i've learned the concepts of client to server network designs, mysql databases, asynchronous communications, non or threaded model designs, and the whole Java basics spectrum.
Another good venture is the MineCraft server development communities such as Bukkit,Technic, Sponge, and Spigot-MC [2]. They've got some interesting frameworks as well for the Mobile-Portable edition that's pretty interesting to look at.
Last I can think of is Garry's Mod. GMod solely revolves around Lua. [3] Roblox is Lua as well and they pay a good chunk of money to developers if you can create a trending server.
But you've got to have some sort of real interest to get into these, otherwise it feels like a waste of time imo. I was young and havent graduated yet so I had all the time to mess with these source-codes & actually host them, but now, I just don't see the point unless i'm going to attempt making money from it. It's a rewarding and fun experience though.
I wish I knew more underground communities espcially akin to RSPS, it was the best learning experience and it is not often you find something genuine like that.
If you want an ad-free mobile experience, I recommend 'YouTube Vanced'. I used it for years now, it's basically the YouTube app minus the ads, so you can still use the discovery feature if you'd like.
I'm not sure if the original YT app allows this, but i'm able to minimize videos while it's playing or shut off my phone while listening to a video, which I recall you had to pay premium for
I don't mind, but i'd love to see more people create blogs on their own webspace. I enjoy looking at others' portfolio/ self-made blogs, it makes me more willing to tip
Bitwarden is your best shot, it's the only open-source one that allows remote syncing across all devices. You can build everything yourself as well: https://github.com/bitwarden
