I'm not saying Russian public opinion isn't fucked up but if you'd gone and interviewed a bunch of random British people during The Troubles or the Iraq war and picked out the maddest ones you could … (View Post)

I build stuff on Ethereum, then also deploy it to anything compatible with a free software license, so Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, Arbitrum, Gnosis Chain. My project's funded by donations but parti… (View Post)

The Lightning Network isn't magic, it doesn't do the currency conversion part and it only works if the recipient already has bitcoins. You can work around this by using a trusted party in the middle,… (View Post)

On topic there are lots of Somethings that can be done and haven't yet but they have trade-offs or political unpopularity, that's why they haven't been done yet. If we're serious about this we need t… (View Post)

I don't think wanting an offramp implies less resistance. If there's less resistance, there's no reason for Putin to use an offramp. (View Post)