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Using Go even earlier in the boot stage in an initramfs (as a replacement for tools like dracut) crossed my mind recently. Go's statically linked binaries and fast builds make this particularly appealing to me. With (a lot of) work you could forego busybox entirely.

It sounds like a marketer got a little too excited and decided to name their developer kit The 21 Bitcoin Computer, not realizing the confusion they were about to create.

My understanding is that 21 has created a board that fits on top of a Raspberry Pi 2 to offer a miner, full bitcoin node, wallet, some fancy hardware acceleration, and several development tools for engineers who are new to bitcoin and want to experiment with building products on top of it.

It's only been an hour since all this news is coming out but so far I think they're completely missing their target audience by dumbing down their marketing material and selling preorders through Amazon.

Is "censored" the correct term or were rules actually broken to warrant the removal of the post? Reddit definitely faces a real challenge when subreddits are established with a name like /r/news but are self-moderated and enforce their own strict rules regarding what qualifies as news. There are tons of cases of rogue moderators but also very fair reasons for posts to be removed.

I appreciate one commenter's response:

Nick Bernabe - while I respect your work and what you're accomplishing here, not being an opinion piece isn't just about citing facts. It's also about maintaining a certain professionalism in the writing. Let the facts be persuasive, don't editorialize with statements like "Because profit, of course. Or perhaps more befittingly, theft. But you get the idea." That just diminishes the strength of what is being presented by making the author look obviously partisan and therefore easier to disregard.

It's way too easy to shout "censorship" and start coming up with conspiracy theories where mega corporations are taking control of peoples' freedom. In reality, I don't think Nestle actually cares about what anyone on Reddit's saying when we're all pseudonymous anyway. Twitter might be a different story though.