Snails are so cool! I’ve been using snail cream to fix a skin issue on my face with great success. There is nothing like it that I have tried. A little goes a long way.
even chrome browser plugins have security issues similar to this case. there are billions of dollars and many smart developers working on it. It's similar to building an app store inside your app. For the Apple app store, they reduce malicious apps by being very strict who/what people can publish and it's behind a paywall.
You are safe. The way this hack works is that someone online would contact you, share a obsidian valut with you, you open the vault, you download & install a plugin the hacker tells you to install to open the vault.
It's all described in the article if you would like to read it.
So many issues with Rekordbox and their vendor lock-in. I can't even reliably export songs on a flash drive and have it showing up in their CDJ. It's honestly time to take the Pioneer giant down.
if quantum computing cracked encryption, everything secured on the internet would be in trouble, not just btc
every 4 years there is a halving event where the btc reward is cut in half. Eventually all btc will be mined and the only role of miners will be to process transactions and they get to keep the fees. that will be the incentive
i agree, Ethereum might be the better approach.
i'm not too concerned about the electricity usage in the long term. for btc it will be less and less profitable for miners to operate consuming large amounts of energy. as the price plateaus and mining rewards decrease, energy consumption should also plateau. that is if energy price stays the same and doesn't become cheaper.
Once you have some cryptocurrency in your wallet, you don't go to the exchanges to do transactions. All transactions on the blockchain are done in a decentralised way without a 3rd party.