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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:58PM (#37580220)

The linked tweet screenshots a blog post[1] that is an analysis of a pHd thesis[2]

[1] - https://www.electrospaces.net/2023/09/some-new-snippets-from...

[2] - https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/197416841/20220325...

Re:Bitcoin has few attributes of money but all the attributes of a col... on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:48AM (#26903383)

I would say transcendentally different.

Unlike eBay, with Bitcoin I can transact nearly instantly and without going through any middle men like PayPal and the like. This is huge.

I can also store 1bitcoin and 1million bitcoin on the same USB drive, and know that also unlike beanie babies, they won't deteriorate at all ever.

Re:Bitcoin has few attributes of money but all the attributes of a col... on Thursday April 22, 2021 @12:54AM (#26898880)

Something this article misses though is that Bitcoin, unlike stamps and Beanie Babies, is digital, which I'd argue makes a huge difference.

Imagine if you could exchange Beanie Babies with anyone in the world with an internet (or satellite) connection. That seems...at least a little more useful?

Re:Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:46PM (#26665807)

Filecoin is actually built by Protocol Labs and Juan Benet, the same team that works on IPFS.

I'm not saying there aren't plenty of pump and dump shitcoins out there, or that FIL is deserving of its current price, but I don't think it's fair to call it a "pump and dump shitcoin" :-)

Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay user... on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:22PM (#23608593)

Isn't that basically the same thing as just having data collecting companies pay users directly?