Haven't kept up with all the posts on this list but I've been on this thread about deadly-digital-money a bit.
On Sat, May 23, 2020, 12:10 AM grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote:. <summary of part of what I snipped: all the major anonymous coins have been deanonymized. the pattern of when that is possible hasn't been summarized for continued use of them. usa still hates cryptos.> Still no good distributed DEX's in operation with open APIs > for wide range of coins to plug into for cross-chain atomic swaps. > I must have missed where whatever the issue with bitshares (trading bot at https://github.com/Codaone/DEXBot ) is. It seems to meet your qualifications to me but may fall short in other areas. https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/gmhuon/in_the_last_24_hours_bitcoins_nakamoto/ > Watching the mining pool charts... the large pools are slowly killing > off the smaller pools. BTC.com and AntPool are both Bitmain, Nakamoto > Coefficient (a measure of decentralization) has dropped to 2, they > control 62% of the hashrate. > https://btc.com/stats/pool?pool_mode=day > > Welcome to joint problem of ASICs... central sole source ASIC Corps presale > mining out with their own HW first, then dictating preferred bulk sales > channels > and destinations... and lack of personal responsibility to your own > nominal values > held by running and adopting global commodity CPU/GPU mined ASIC-hard > coins, abandoning large pools for smaller pools. Avoiding your > responsibilities > in these ways will get you censored and wiped out... just like Fiat. If > it's > free no effort you take, you become the victim. > I began "birddogging" (brazenly approaching and trying to ask concise obvious questions that peoples' conversation habits have been tending to turn away) the developers in response to this at https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2020-May/017882.html . The first reply I got included a proposal that we work to build international electricity infrastructure rather than work on software solutions, maybe parroting something old. It takes a while for replies to trickle through the moderation queue. Random youtubes... > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXqc-yyoVKg Hayek on Friedman and Keynes > (personally I don't watch youtube, hard to quickly grok (i.e. understand thoroughly), and requires graphics systems that crash my overburdened devices; but I miss most information anyway. i know you guys are good at bringing what's important into text and it's my responsibility to read it eventually) Happy Cryptocurrency Pizza Day. > I discovered that with a lot of chemical processing old mining equipment can be used to fertilize wheat used for pie crusts. The running mining machines fire the oven. (I'm joking here, not intended meanly: trying to raise a little how to consider both the merits (e.g. transparency, economic accessibility) and harm (e.g. energy waste, deadly detached capital culture) of cryptocurrency, together) >
