IIUC Bitcoin has mostly lost that market to Monero. Bitcoin's main use now (apart from sitting on it hoping for a greater fool) is ransomware. It still has an advantage there because it's e… (View Post)

Peer-to-peer, still works in power cuts, no personal data that can be leaked or misused, your ability to use it can't be arbitrarily restricted by some company with zero accountability. (View Post)

I'm almost definitely too lazy to research this and write it but it might be fun to have a thread on possible dark horse GOP candidates. I think you have to free yourself from two prejudices whe… (View Post)

I think we need to be a little bit skeptical of the GOP polling. Right now nothing depends on it, and the other candidates aren't well known. If you're a GOP member and you think the libs a… (View Post)

Good to see the "once a politician has power they never give it up unless they absolutely have to" rule no longer has this one weird exception and the order of the world is restored. (View Post)