make it better

Like the rest of society, some people get ridiculous wealth by luck of being at the right place at the right time. That is no reason to not have open source money.

thats not the point, there have been studies that show bitcoin is fairly vulnerable to 50% control due to early adopters and other wHaLeS controlling the currency. and the studies can show this because bitcoin isnt private.

Bitcoin Core is MIT licensed.

the software is, but what relevance does that have to people using it as currency?

More people will switch to Linux once and for all.

lol, so 2025 will truly once and for all be the year of the linux desktop? do you like...ever learn history? should try.

I am not defending scammers but grandma and grandpa do have access to the internet. There are tons of resources to educate yourself on how avoid being scammed.

What scammers are doing is illegal but grandma and grandpa are not blameless.

thanks for comparing requiring a tpm chip to scamming grandma

I’m not defending rapists but there’s no reason women can’t educate themselves on how to make it so they’re less likely to be raped.

Yes what rapists are doing is bad. But the person being raped can’t be completely blameless.

thanks for comparing requiring a tpm chip to rape. adds flavor.

The only real ‘groundbreaking’ new feature (multiple desktops) was something that Linux had fifteen years ago.

what are you talking about? if you mean virtual as the others think, both linux and windows have had that for 20 years. if you mean something else I really really want to know.

anyway it also has better wsl (backported to 10 eventually), generally better performance and battery life, etc. it also had a mac dock that prevented me from doing the upgrade for 3 years lol.

Why can’t I access Google’s individual transactions but they should have access to mine?

why are you giving google access to your transactions to begin with? all my credit card transactions are between me and visa and my credit union and the federal government, but not google.

“There is nothing math can do better than math.”

wat?

I can’t find the case study, but this blockchain project by IBM was implemented in Singapore and was shown to reduce customs processing times from several weeks to just several hours.

the real question is what part of this was specific to blockchain, something that would be difficult or impossible to do without it. if you want to put forward this argument you need to at least provide a simple, clear, coherent answer to that.

in this case, i could easily argue a sqlite db hosted on gitea would work better and theres no way to prove im wrong.

the technology itself has its use cases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15RTC22Z2xI I would love to hear the counterarguments. video is <15 mins, academic setting.

Open source everything except the money.

this is a truly perplexing statement. what about a currency that is controlled predominantly by early adopters has anything to do with open source?