What you've described is SBF's defence. As far as I can tell it's total bullshit, and he committed fraud, repeatedly and knowingly. Anyhow we'll see what the jury thinks. (View Post)

They didn't use the random to *work it out*, they used it to deceive people into thinking their money was safe. It's not a cute thing to do by someone oblivious to finance, it's one of… (View Post)

I don't think either of those is true. The Dems would have better chances with Biden than with Kamala, Bernie, Warren or Bloomberg. The GOP would have better chances of winning with Trump than w… (View Post)

IIUC a while back Hamas asked supporters to stop sending them crypto because the senders kept getting traced. In principle you can send crypto with reasonably good privacy (don't use bitcoins fo… (View Post)

An interesting thing about the Polish election is that (per this skeet) young people apparently turned out at higher rates than old people. If that gets repeated elsewhere then politics will look com… (View Post)