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> No, the comment that I reference on HN is not mine, it's by someone else. BTW, I quite agree with it.

Ok, misread that. Either way it's just an HN comment, it's not proof of anything much.
Gold mining is terribly polluting, yep, but your attitude to it is pretty much the definition of whataboutery.
Most people have a job and game part-time. GPUs in gaming rigs are not powered on 24/7. Let's be honest about this.
There are no typos here, the root issue is package manager preferring public packages of the same name over private ones
Important difference between Bitcoin and everything else you mentioned: there is no incentive to improve the energy-efficiency of mining. We went from CPU to GPU to ASIC mining, each time reducing the per-hash energy consumption, and all the miners did was hash more using the same amount of energy. Whereas, for example, the energy used to watch porn -- energy spent by all the routers, switches, and servers involved -- will be reduced if technological improvements allow the same task to be accomplished with less energy.
I do agree that most of these articles are picking on bitcoin.

I think the main problem people have is the actual result of the mining is useless, say compared to using all those computers for MI or Folding @ Home.

I think a better solution would be to get rid of these random bytes and replace them with a Folding @ Home or similar solution, where the computing power you donate results in you getting X bitcoin. Things that are a positive on society, rather then a negative.

But then again that is me being judgmental on others, maybe people care a ton about that string of random alphanumeric characters.
I understand the value of blockchain tech, but what's the intrinsic value of Bitcoin?
Does this work with AOT compiled languages? Surely the fake packages that get uploaded don't know the structure of the internal libraries enough, so for something like Cargo this would just cause in your build suddenly failing mysteriously & easy to spot. A build.rs could probably do some damage to your build systems temporarily for the 1 or 2 days (if not hours) it takes for engineers to track down what's happening.
The price of all cryptocurrencies more or less move in tandem, so that when Bitcoin has a good time, so does all the cryptocurrencies that can be mined with GPUs.
I don't know that name-calling adds much value to the conversation, but I will say it's a failing strategy to try and make value judgements for other people. The way forward is technological advancement. That has always been the case. We're not going to solve climate crisis by stifling anything as should be evident just by looking at China. I'd imagine we're all much better off supporting green energy rather than pointing fingers at anyone who has a different value judgement for how that energy should be used.
> Somebody on a different thread estimated you could drive a Tesla down the whole California coastline for the energy used processing a single BTC transaction.

Bitcoin energy consumption is not a function of the number of transactions. A node broadcasts a transaction which miners then include in a block which, within limits, can have an arbitrary number of transactions. It is the Proof of Work(PoW) contest to find a valid hash for the block at a certain level of difficulty that creates a valid block.

Further, with Layer 2 solutions, a single transaction in a Bitcoin block can be "dense" with the value of an arbitrary number of transactions that occurred in Layer 2. That is Bitcoin providing the settlement layer.

Importantly, because Bitcoin is a timechain where the current blockheight represents the entire history of Bitcoin.

"The average cost per transaction isn’t an adequate metric for measuring the efficiency of Bitcoin’s PoW, it should be defined in terms of the security of an economic history. The energy spend secures the stock of bitcoin, and that percentage is going down over time as inflation decreases. A Bitcoin “accumulates” the energy associated with all the blocks mined since its creation. LaurentMT, a researcher, has found empirically that Bitcoin’s PoW is indeed becoming more efficient over time: increasing cost is counterbalanced by the even greater increasing total value secured by the system."[0]

[0] : https://danhedl.medium.com/pow-is-efficient-aa3d442754d3
Fine, let's have separate working hours for every region. Now, how do you determine what longitudes share working hours?
I recently tried to appropriately set the FOV of first person shooters to match the FOV that the screen actually took up. I found that most games would not let me set my FOV that low, even when I was 1-2 feet away from a 24” monitor.

It seems strange that it is given that people want a wider FOV than is natural. It gives a competitive advantage in the majority of scenarios, but I’m surprised more people don’t stop and think “this looks off”.
> Well it is terrawatts of environmentally sustainable energy

No wasting of energy is environmentally sustainable. We exhausted earth's capacity for hydroelectric dams and their "free" energy of the past will be gone, when they operate for their intended purpose of powering new settlements. And do you think bitcoin will thrive when it's all mined with iceland's geothermal monopoly?

Nuclear, solar and wind are resource intense "not carbon-based" / "sustainable" technologies, but blowing away their production in unnecessary heat generation is not environmentally sustainable.

1 TW would be 71,000 upcoming SGRE 14MW(!) offshore wind turbines running at max capacity (which of course is completely unrealistic). If you line them up, that would be a wind park of about 16,000 km length, or about twice the distance between Europe and the US. Apart from all the material wasted, maintenance efforts and lives lost, I am sure earth's capacity for wind energy is limited too, as obviously winds don't produce free energy either and over exploitation may, or may not be catastrophic for earth's local climates. E.g. there are ideas to kill American hurricanes with offshore windparks, afaik.

And really, the question is never, if your could operate bitcoin with "sustainable" energy production, but what else you could invest the energy in instead. Bitcoin has nothing to offer which justifies its energy demand, as there are (possible) alternatives which cost us less.

Bitcoin has no future, if humanity has one.
Odd, I have been using CST6CDT on my OpenBSD servers. Is this not a normal construction?
Various behaviors when requesting time in a non-existent timezone:

sane: report an error in some hard to ignore form

less sane: ignore the provided timezone, display the time in UTC and properly mark it with "UTC"

insane: ignore the provided timezone, display the time in UTC, but then mark it with the prefix of the provided timezone anyway.

I don't care how well documented the insane behavior is, it's still insane.
> the real intrinsic value of Bitcoin

Intrinsic: belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing [0].

Bitcoin, being a series of bits proving you or one of your financial forebears burnt some spare energy without any material return, has no intrinsic value. Its value is entirely extrinsic and intersubjective, in that it only has value if a quorum believes it has value.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intrinsic
Once you understand Bitcoin, there's no way why you'd go back to the legacy system. It's not Bitcoiners getting freaking rich; it's them adopting a superior store of value that is being selected as the winner in a free market.

Most people are perfectly happy entrusting their (fiat) money with the banks, and asking permission for accessing their funds. Bitcoiners, on the other hand, have tasted the freedom of self-custody and a permissionless payment system.

Whether it has value or not depends on how important it is to have a monetary good that is not issued by a nation state, and cannot be controlled/stopped/inflated/modified.
I like the point this makes. The expectation for us to remember hundreds of convoluted and complex passwords for every site we might interact with once a year is totally ridiculous.
Related: Problems are Goldmines by Peter H. Diamandis

> https://www.diamandis.com/blog/problems-are-goldmines
How many people use it for payments is not the right metric, it’s not the payments that cost a lot of electricity it’s the competition to win block rewards where more energy means a higher chance of mining a block.

Indirectly, if a lot of people use it for payments it may be worth more and attract more mining competition.
Jazzer brings modern fuzz testing to the JVM
https://michaelfairley.com/blog/i-made-a-game-in-rust/ perhaps?
Synthetic CDO AAA tranches a bargain for the brave (2007)
Stallman and by extension the FSF are opposed to user experiences. He links to the following article on his website:

http://contemporary-home-computing.org/RUE/
Well I agree, I don't personally do it either. My stack is comprised of tools that are pretty comprehensive on their own, so they get committed to the repository. A backend framework, a SASS compiler binary and a frontend framework if needed. It all gets put in the repo and any tasks are run by a makefile.
> Only a matter of time before it becomes a medium of exchange.

It is impossible for BTC to become a medium of exchange without significant technical upgrades that the core developers have so far been hostile to.

Although it was a goal of the original bitcoin project (and continues to be for BCH and others), it is not a goal of the BTC community and it is incredibly unlikely that it will ever happen.
Some people are really out of touch. By the time they found out about Bitcoin in the past couple years it had moved past GPU mining almost a decade ago.
I'm saying that if a country's currency stops being accepted as the main means of exchange within its borders then its government will use laws to restore that.

And if laws are not obeyed that's a police matter.

Concretely if stores stop taking fiat, and only cryptocurrency, to the point where it affects the economy, then you should expect laws preventing that. If that doesn't help then you should expect to see arrests happening.

Governments have the legal and physical ability to enforce monetary policy. Bitcoin nuts who say that "fiat currency is backed by nothing" are delusional. Several currencies are ultimately backed by nuclear weapons.

So in other words cryptocurrencies are only allowed to the extent that they don't overthrow the whole system. And overthrowing the whole system was the whole point, right? (well, that and buy heroin and make ransomware)
Can you make Rust in Rust?
Central banking does have some benefits. Printing money can make a currency more valuable if it reduces volatility, because that draws more participants into the currency.

> The finite supply is a feature, not a bug.

Finite supply means that a guy who mined a bunch of bitcoin in his dorm room in 2011 because the university gave him free electricity can move the price when he decides to sell.
> it takes 30 mins to send wires in a best case scenario it is executed immediately when you send it but that's not what happens in practice for most people. I do that regularly and it takes me a couple of hours.

Your bank is not set up for wires. Try Fidelity or First Republic or Silicon Valley Bank. Between 10 and 30 minutes from my hitting transfer to appearing in the recipient’s account. Exceptions are large wires which may require a phone call for verification, though I can usually turn that off if I wanted to.
Should we be so enthusiastic about Clubhouse?
In the case of RubyGems for some time now it has been throwing a warning if you do not use the `source` block to scope for gems coming from multiple gemservers.
Developers Continue New Push with LibreOffice in the Web Browser via WebAssembly
I wish it was available for orgs private repos.
The History of Djgpp
I know it's a joke but it feels too damn real.

I especially hate it when websites declare my randomly generated 32 character password is 'not secure'. Because obviously it needs squirrel sounds as well.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2005-09-10
Awesome Enterprise Blockchain - Kaleido is hiring for a Senior Software Engineer
The reward for "almost winning" is quite underwhelming but hilarious.

There's 3 levels, can be passed relatively quickly.
Gold has a reputation for being a 'safe haven' asset, which is not quite the same as a 'store of value'. Gold returns are supposedly negatively correlated with those of stocks and other financial assets and so holding gold provides a sort of protection against market downturns.
I had a pulmonary embolism‘s was white as a ghost struggling to breathe and that dang meter said everything was fine.
Even the bloodwork at the hospital said everything was fine.
Lost some lung over that and took a year to recover.
The secret is to not use NPM at all. It's the worst offender for exploding dependency trees.
>"DJGPP was born around 1989 (originally called djgcc), when Richard Stallman spoke at a meeting of the Northern New England Unix Users Group (NNEUUG) at Data General, where I then worked.

I asked if the FSF ever planned on porting gcc to MS-DOS (I wanted to use it to write a 32-bit operating system for PCs), and he said it couldn't be done because gcc was too big and MS-DOS was a 16-bit operating system. Challenge in hand, I began.

The first gcc I built was 1.35, which I built on an ISC Unix system running on a 386/16. I wrote custom replacements for the system calls, linked with ISC's libc.a, write a custom program to turn the resulting binary into a 32-bit EXE that Phar Lap's extender could use, and had the first gcc that ran on MS-DOS."
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It is pretty, and easy to form in stone age processes. Thus it is actual useful unlike dollars.

Even if gold isn't a means of currency, you can still trade for it because someone will be interested in buying it. After the collapse bonds and paper money will be worthless, but you can still trade gold for things.

Currency is whatever we use to avoid having to create 10-way exchanges. (Baker offers the cobbler 600 loafs off bread for a pair of shoes, but cobbler doesn't want that many because they will obviously go stale, so we need to bring in dozens of other people who need bread and can trade something else to the cobbler). Gold is a good choice for this, but is isn't the only possible choice.
hahaha exactly, what a nice world to live in with tings and concepts having names!
> Who investigates and what is the outcome?

The public? Something that benefits a few at the expense of the many is the canonical case for regulation.

(I don’t think we should ban or even really regulate Bitcoin. Not at this point.)
Lunch at @500...
Resolving C/C++ Concurrency Bugs More Efficiently with Time Travel Debugging
> Using electricity is not the same as contributing to carbon emissions

Until all electricity comes from renewable source, then yes it is.

> The idea that all electricity generation is bad and therefore all electricity usage is bad is completely ridiculous

All _frivolous_ electricity usage is obviously bad.
I think Trump is unusual in that he is genuinely a stupid man who is incredibly easily manipulated - e.g. See Rex Tillerson's comments on it wrt. having to use pretty graphs and no words for the president, and Bob Woodwards calls. Nixon was a tortured soul, but he was no fool.

Beyond that he's not too unique as a president - at least in the abstract: No one else has dared to be so bold in their disregard for the constitution, and yet so inept in executing it.
How much worse do you think it'd be if you had a static IP and were essentially having to manage your own sender rep yourself? Google and microsoft postmasters are unlikely to pay much attention to someone running an IP maybe sending a few thousand emails a day.
> as you loose none of the energy put in to waste heat

The mains is normally AC. You WILL lose energy either in AC-DC converter or in reactive load of the heater.
Also, OSM Go![1] allows you to edit/delete any object on the map :)

[1] Available as PWA and Android app: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm_Go!
> When even the people who says that Bitcoin has intrinsic value prefer something else it's hard to buy the argument.

This argument doesn't make any sense. I prefer BTC over gold. This does not negate the intrinsic value of gold in any way.
The Day Half a Million People Were Poisoned | VICE [video]
Trying to fit into Korea’s one size fits all Beauty Standards
What’s it like to not fit the mould?
At this point, I believe if you get unlocky they are all equally shitty. Just yesterday a friend of mine lost access to his Microsoft account including his OneDrive with all his documents (all work related, by the way) due to an unspecified account violation.
Political clickbait. Many global activities use more electricity than Argentina. Please ban
It's a little bit of both. Maybe "problem" is the wrong word. It's a risk that you need to understand and account for. If you're running a bank, it's an existential impact that you must avoid. If you're running a message board, it's not.

Look at what happened when the "left-pad" function disappeared from npm a few years ago. IIRC, it broke react. The downside of package managers like this is that many people have no idea what they are using.
This is really pretty. Thanks for taking the time to creating it. I concur with other users saying that it's strange to scroll to move: messy with trackpads, and what does it mean to move? Better provide an optional scroll bar that mirrors the scrolling, or can be manipulated directly with the mouse.
I would argue the UI is a vast improvement over Postman.
> reeks of hypocrisy
says the bitcoin holder that profits from it's adoption.
I don't think it matters who you ask to investigate it, everyone except bitcoin users themselves will realise that it's an absurd waste of electricity, for very little added value.
Ah.. my go-to for this is to take a photo of the screen with my phone. The effect is spot on, and as bonus, you can capture the pixellated nature of the image.
Here's an example video:

https://twitter.com/lynnle_ai/status/1357770339279917057
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And making whiny comments on HN when it's mentioned.
Could someone eli5 this to me?

It seems to me that a cohortised approach is intrinsically better for privacy as a whole as you don't care about individuals but rather a group of individuals with similar interests.

If this standard is not abused / de-anonymised then surely this approach is a good thing?
The best time to plant a tree is 30 years ago. The second best time is now, except we don't even want to do that. For as much as people crow about the national debt shackling future generations, the same people sure seem to be unconcerned about the effects of an overheated and unstable global climate system.
Only if you listen to Fox news types who believe or want you to believe there is any real debate over climate change.
Obligatory post to Computerphile episode about Timezones - a must watch for developers just starting out with Timezones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
Each country's member association of the International Amateur Radio Union[0] likely provides information on ways to get your ham radio license in the specific country.

Germany: https://www.darc.de/einsteiger/amateurfunkausbildung/

UK: https://rsgb.org/main/get-started-in-amateur-radio/

France: https://promocom.r-e-f.org/

Sweden: https://www.ssa.se/amatorradio/bli-radioamator/

[0]: https://www.iaru.org/reference/member-societies/
Only a given bitcoin fork is inflation proof. Bitcoin itself is infinitely forkable, and if someone greatly improves the experience of creating and trading forks, we're at risk of inflation in a way fiat currencies are not.
> can you elaborate on this?

Haviong trouble finding it now, but google "lightning network routing problems" and you'll get a lot of results. IIRC the fundamental issue boils down to a hard mathematical problem about node traversal that is not yet solved. I am having trouble recalling the name right now, apologies.

> AFAIK if you're not a payment hub (ie. you want to route other people's payments) you don't need to be always online.

There have been ways that a counterparty can close a channel in their favour if you aren't online. Perhaps this has been fixed by now.
Comments like yours and its parent get downvoted because "science" has become a religion in the eyes of many, and they find it heretical to question its teaching. As a scientist I find this ironic but also horrifying to see the same behavior that we've seen many centuries ago in other religions now intruding into science.
"if" successful? Ethereum has had smart contracts now on-chain for 5-6 years and they are producing new abstractions and value add to the crypto ecosystem like decentralized exchanges, derivatives, crypto collectibles, savings and loans, conditional execution logic of smart contract based on external data from oracles (for things like prediction markets, insurance, price feeds, etc), etc etc. Turing complete smart contracts on-chain are a game changing innovation and Bitcoin won't go near it. They have ossified the protocol around the digital gold paradigm while Ethereum is creating a whole new platform with distinct network effects and value add. There's no reason why Ethereum's market cap can't exceed Bitcoin's. You know, there's asset classes that exceed gold's market cap, after all.
Absolutely. This is also why it's the right choice for the default editor: it lets anyone use it even if they've never seen it before.