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if any of us cared about ethics we wouldnt be in this industry

I dunno, running for president of the US and launching a crypto coin seems pretty profitable.

ENS has existed for a while and has very little traction.

Plenty of german companies supplied the nazis and survived ww2.

where does the startup end and the small business begin?

Less regulation to get in the way of the blatant corruption.

lmao, never heard that before.

I will gladly send you crypto for any gold you can get your hands on.

Not in the mood to debate easily google-able concepts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_sovereignty

Clinging to unfounded beliefs about a fundamentally flawed ideology is exhausting.

rule of law no longer exists in the US and their large corporations are filling the gap.

Your question is unclear.

Denial about what national sovereignty means in regards to currency controls and what that means for crypto orgs who want to operate in the stable coin or off ramp space?

Plenty of examples of orgs either failing or entirely abandoning their crypto "principles" like privacy and decentralization just to get rubber stamped by various regulatory agencies.

You mean giving an agent access to your user space and hoping nothing goes wrong?

The default installation for claude code is hilariously insecure and the only times I've used it is in a fully sandboxed VM.

Current US admin is pro grift, bribery, and embezzlement.

Crypto is a just a tool that enables that. They have no interest whatsoever in democratization, self-custodial finance, or frictionless payments across borders for anyone but themselves.

Direct p2p payments a "hard problem" because it directly contradicts what we consider to be one of the central pillars of national sovereignty, control over your national currency.

Crypto as a whole is in denial about this because there is no path forward without expecting nations to either give up one of their most effective levers of control, or expecting them to turn a blind eye to external actors eroding that control in real time.

This argument is the endgame of the chef slowly boiling the frog.

You'll run into them if you ever work for organizations that have strict IP constraints or have no interest hosting their code on a platform in the US.

Coincidentally I have seen that becoming more and more common in my circles since last November.

"So you put in a dollar, you get back a dollar."

Until you don't.

There are dozens of examples of failed stable coins, to the point that they are now a meme in the crypto community.

Every crypto project runs head first into this problem.

Layers and layers of technical bullshit that never addresses the fact that no government in the world wants to allow frictionless peer to peer payments across borders.

CF is likely building this to service an internal need to collect micropayments for some kind of pay to view "captcha", and all the rest is just highly paid PR spin.

You mean Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet?

Well time to move my DNS off of CF again.

So they can directly monetize page views with their own token and fully embrace the role of internet gatekeeper / tax man.

Many (likely a majority) of crypto users are "normal" in that sense too, they just want to transfer funds and don't care about concepts like decentralization or privacy.

I attended DevCon and few other crypto dev events this year for work, and it was hilarious how few actual products were present.

I hope that AT / Bluesky doesn't fall into this same trap of iterating over the details of a protocol vs shipping apps that people actually want to use.

For me personally a slightly less toxic twitter isn't that app, but when something comes along that is I'll likely setup a domain for AT.

git is incredibly useful without github and has been the starting points of thousands of useful apps and clis.

I havent published to gh in nearly a decade and use git daily.

Reminds me of the various crypto protocols talking about theoretical decentralization while entirely bound to 1 platform with no other useful apps in sight.

A nice sentiment, hasnt been true for a while though

pwas deserve more attention

was working on something similar to this last week, but i ended up going with SSE instead of websockets for the control channel.

the goal was to use webauthn to authenticate ssh sessions from the browser with a charm/wish ssh app backend.