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Cant believe bitcoincore.org bitched out so quickly. Well done bitcoin.org for actually having a back bone. CSW can fuck off.
Thanks cobra for standing up to the threats. This is not good optics and pretty disappointing.
isn't is illegal to go around and file hundreds of baseless lawsuits and cease and desist threats against people? why doesn't someone stand up to him and just sue him into bankruptcy?
I think it was the right move for bitcoincore.org.
The Bitcoin core devs should focus their energy on developing and maintaining the code of Bitcoin core, not engaging in legal fights. If they spend time in legal battles, then they will spend less time on developing the code, which is bad for Bitcoin.
That said, it's a decentralized project, and anyone can upload the whitepaper on their own website.
It would be rather trivial to just chop up the PDF (or plaintext it sans diagrams) and store it directly in the fucking blockchain.
satoshi would know this
Right decision, but Cobra making a political show out of it in deflection of him being paid by a shitcoin and ICO pumping exchange on his own bitcoin.org, just 2 days ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/kzcug2/psa_bitcoinorg_is_untrustworthy_and_newbies/
This fucking asshole was all over the news around the end of 2017 bull run. His mere existence is always bad news to the whole cryptocurrency community.
Someone link an IPFS saved version of the whitepaper, please :)
When CSW sees it (probably "when he invented it") he may as well stop this futile task.
We live in an age where factions of cryptocurrencies are basically at war with eachother... 👽
What would be the most useful way to raise funds in support of defending against CSW?
I'm a little surprised that bitcoincore.org folded so quickly and I don't think it bodes well.
Download it while you can. https://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
This is the right response. Whitepaper was published in an email group, no mention of licensing or distribution restrictions. If there are any and if anyone is able to prove themselves to be satoshi - most will surely comply, until then CSW can lick my garbage can.
I am disappointed with the reaction of the DEVs. Giving up in that way after the first legal letter is not a good example.
(edited to remove polemic)
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** Edit: Yeah, after seeing the attackers pile on on Twitter, I retract my above comment. In spite of your accusations, I'm not going anywhere. Fuck those assholes. Thanks for telling CSW he can kiss your ass.
We will continue hosting the Bitcoin whitepaper and won’t be silenced or intimidated. Others hosting the whitepaper should follow our lead in resisting these false allegations.
Thanks for posting, I look forward to using this as a resource!
It seems like Gensler’s point of view is extremely reasonable. He believes strongly in the ultimate value of blockchain, but like the early internet, knows that for full adoption by institutions it needs clarity and regulation to protect investors. This seems like a great sign for Bitcoin.
74 yr old women trying to stop crypto? This is like when the senators were questioning Mark Zuckerberg...just looking super out of touch
Janet Yellen literally graduated college before the U.S. moved off of the gold standard. That means she studied economics before U.S. fiat currency was a thing. Why should she have any input on how new generations deal with new finance/currency technologies?
Why are old people talking about the money of the future quick your crying and stick to your gold and silver
If you think the biggest banks in the world are about to let crypto take over their money laundering and drug cartel business, you better think again.
Last time I checked investing isn’t illegal, which is what most crypto is used for. Whether short term or long, people buy to sell.
Pretty sure most dealers aren’t accepting bitcoin
I didn’t read all the comments but it seems that there is an elephant in the room that is not being directly discussed. POWER. The arguments about illicit transactions are immaterial. As mentioned illicit transactions can and do happen with any currency. The issue is that crypto technologies have the potential to dramatically reduce the POWER of central banks and potentially destabilize economies. Any central banker worth their salt would be against something that would reduce their ability to “protect” their economy through monetary policy. Regulation is not a bad thing for crypto although, I heard someone smarter than me say something along the lines of “how good is your product if the only way it wins is to make competition illegal?” I’d like to hear Yellen or Lagarde support their rhetoric with actual facts that demonstrate how crypto is inherently more dangerous than fiat currency.
Did it need to be a thread?
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Bitcoin is used for gambling (or “investing” as some people call it) and to buy drugs, so she’s not wrong lol
I’m not the type of person to blame age on these types of policies but in this scenario she is clearly too old to comprehend what Bitcoin actually is. That or she’s using the anti-technology sentiment for her own political gain.
Re-introduce the $100,000 bill into circulation! Watch the illegal transactions explode!
Of course she did. It’s threatens her product, fiat currency. Wipe out the competition.
I agree. We should ban Bitcoin and go back to using only cash because cash has never been used for criminal activities ever.
I don’t think there is much they can do, except shut down companies like coinbase. That would also just lose them tax revenue.
[1]: https://markets.chainalysis.com/?range=30&asset=BTC#risk-ill...
A better reason for change: How about the fact that the Bitcoin network is currently estimated to use over 7 nuclear plants worth of electricity and that a single transaction uses like 6 households of daily electricity? The carbon footprint of Bitcoin is something like the city of Las Vegas. Can we fix that?
HAHAHA. That's where I ended the reading, as I know the pattern. Its just virtue signaling of finance world and politics. They are preping for taking control over the crypto sector. As it is actually starting to threat whole financial system, since companies are starting to put more faith in BTC as value store.
That is actually scary concept for government... well central bank and fed actually, since those guys know whats going on.
Anyhow the same people will be later saying 'free market this' 'free market that' on the next issue. Even though its absolutely contradictory.
God bless the developers and cryptographers who are continuing on the good fight. And good luck to them too, because as their technology gains influence and threatens to usurp todays power, they will face resistance. Maybe the original authors of the protocols saw this coming, which is why they used fake identities like Satoshi Nakamoto, or Nicolas van Saberhagen.
I'm less worried about it becoming illegal (what are you going to do, ban math?), and more worried about the networks themselves getting compromised.
A lot of large media outlets reported that Deutsche would stop lending to Trump, but left out how bad it is if even Deutsche won't lend to you.
As predicted just two days ago[1], Bitcoin (and decentralisation in general) will be attacked under the guise of it being a vessel for circumvention of financial establishment right-wing censorship. "We must regulate it to prevent fundraising for another insurrection".
edit: welcome bitcoin bagholders/downvoters!
>"And I think we really need to examine ways in which we can curtail their use and make sure that money laundering doesn't occur through those channels."
Yuck, as much as I hate this argument, which is basically just the "think of the children" argument restated, I'm rather convinced that Yellen's point is true.
There are no legitimate uses for bitcoin that I can think of, other than:
- An instrument for speculative investing
- Sending money to dissidents in other countries
Neither of these seem like high-priority use cases that will suffer unduly from more regulation. By contrast the primary use case for bitcoin seems to be riding the speculation bubble, followed by buying stolen accounts/credit cards/identities and illegal drugs.
It is exciting to feel the possible competition between BlackRock and Grayscale over the acquisition of Bitcoin.
I hope they have the bright idea of shorting Bitcoin and end up getting REKT one day!
Blackrock makes more money off lending out shares they own to short sellers than they do off the actual shares.
Now imagine what they plan to do with Bitcoin
Bitcoin futures? Fuck off blackrock go hide shit under your pillow like everyone else :(
Why is beneficial for blackrock investors to invest in futures instead of directly bitcoin. For example they put in $1000 in futures vs $1000 into bitcoin wouldn’t their gain be the same if bitcoin goes up?
This is huge..... fucking huge news. Doesn't get much bigger than BlackRock... dominoes are gonna start tipping soon. I doubted the 200k 2021 price predictions at first but I'm starting to get my hopes up...
Well, if some crypto asset management platforms, like FWT for example, can bridge traditional finance features to defi i can't see why some giants from the "old fashioned" world couldn't do the same thing in the opposite way. They are not the first and surely not the last.
Pls note, BlackRock gets a "seat" in the White House. Brian Deese, to lead the National Economic Council. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/biden-executive-orders-rejoin-paris-climate-accord-revoke-muslim-ban.html
It's deceptive at best, for now. Is it good for Bitcoin? Yes. They're trying to make sure their funds get exposure to Bitcoin for publicity, but don't have any real affect on the actual price of the asset yet. It's not much different than paper trading gold, except for one tiny little detail that ensures they cannot manipulate the market.
That detail? Unlike gold, this will have very little negative affect on Bitcoin because at ALL TIMES Bitcoin reserves can be verified and delivery capability expectations are high. You can't sell what you don't have when it comes to Bitcoin, unlike gold due to regulations and laws allowing it. The best example we have today JUST happened, eToro. They ran out of Bitcoin to sell and instead of selling paper Bitcoin like big banks sell paper gold they don't have, they simply turned off the ability to buy it.
Eventually, once they see they're missing out on buying the actual currency, we'll start seeing filing for purchasing Bitcoin through custodial services. This is just a first step.
What stake price and at what timeframe do you think or do you presume they invest at?
sorry for the newbie question: What is the difference between investing Bitcoin and Bitcoin futures?
tldr; The world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, appears to have granted at least two of its funds the ability to invest in bitcoin futures. BlackRock Global Allocation Fund Inc. and BlackRock Funds V include “bitcoin” on their list of derivative products cleared for use. The funds may only invest in cash-settled bitcoin
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This is really had. CME cash settled futures was what made BTC dump from 20k to 3k
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with $7.81 trillion under management, appears to have granted at least two of its funds the ability to invest in bitcoin futures. BlackRock did not state which commodity exchange it will choose to execute bitcoin futures buys. However, the funds may only invest in cash-settled bitcoin futures. CME is the only exchange registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that offers cash-settled bitcoin futures at this time.
This is good for Bitcoin.
tldr; The world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, appears to have granted at least two of its funds the ability to invest in bitcoin futures. BlackRock Global Allocation Fund Inc. and BlackRock Funds V include “bitcoin” on their list of derivative products cleared for use. The funds may only invest in cash-settled bitcoin
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tldr; The world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, appears to have granted at least two of its funds the ability to invest in bitcoin futures. BlackRock Global Allocation Fund Inc. and BlackRock Funds V include “bitcoin” on their list of derivative products cleared for use. The funds may only invest in cash-settled bitcoin
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tldr; Ethereum is the world’s most popular blockchain for the first time in history. In 2020, it was used to transfer $1.6 trillion worth of assets, 60% more than Bitcoin's $1 trillion. Fees paid to use Ethereum were nearly twice as much as Bitcoin's blockspace.
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bioRxiv is receiving many new papers on coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. A reminder: these are preliminary reports that have not been peer-reviewed. They should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or be reported in news media as established information.
Before everyone freaks out, the vaccine is most likely to still work. If needed, the mRNA vaccine can be updated to accommodate this new strain.
In the meantime, we need to shut this virus down quick with a global response. No more rampant infections which lead to mutations like this
While not directly related to covid, this might be useful for people to take a look at before freaking out over the results in this preprint:
What dose that mean? because there is no solid evidence that even the guy who is inflected with the first version is immune to same version for so long and reinfection is inevitable. So just gotta live the life just differently for sometime and wear mask and social distance for a year and so.
Don't die from just bad news, because thats whats killing us not the real covid. Stay positive, love.
Actual abstract of the paper
SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2, a novel lineage of the coronavirus causing COVID-19, contains multiple mutations within two immunodominant domains of the spike protein. Here we show that this lineage exhibits complete escape from three classes of therapeutically relevant monoclonal antibodies. Furthermore 501Y.V2 shows substantial or complete escape from neutralizing antibodies in COVID-19 convalescent plasma. These data highlight the prospect of reinfection with antigenically distinct variants and may foreshadow reduced efficacy of current spike-based vaccines.
OP needs to stop editorializing titles for clickbait
The vaccine elicits a polyclonal response, and there are other things like t and B cells involved. Vaccine will almost certainly still be okay
This is bad, but not the end of the world. Just want to calm some peoples nerves.
“While antibody effector functions elicited by infection and vaccination have been implicated in protecting from reinfection and disease 35, 36, the role of non-neutralizing antibodies and the efficacy of T cell responses to 501Y.V2 remain to be elucidated. Ultimately, the correlates of protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe COVID-19 disease remain undetermined and rely upon ongoing large-scale clinical trials.”
The immune system extends beyond neutralizing antibodies. This is bad news, but we don’t know what it will mean in clinical reality.
New monoclonal therapies can be developed. New vaccines can and are being developed. Let’s have some faith.
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But irrespective of all this, I find this very concerning (combined with the epi data, convergent evolution, etc). RBD and NTD mutations & deletions.
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Fuck that. Assange too. Mostly just pardoned people who committed mass fraud and should’ve stayed in jail.
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I love that UK has to offer them visas even though they are british subjects. Only UK could create a type of citizenship that is completely useless and does not allow you to live in country of citizenship
I really hope the vast majority of them do not come over. We can barely deal with the current population imagine adding 100s of thousands more people from a culturally/ethnically different aging society which will exacerbate the current issues were dealing with now.
That's fucked up. There is no way they will handle 5 millions
Would absolutely love it if the EU offered some help, like paying for several airplanes.
Wonderful news! But UK should be careful about CCP sympathizers taking advantage as well.
This is, quite frankly, great news. HonkKongers are great people culturally and should fit right in.
...The English as a whole are not very welcoming to large influxes of people that are...different.
They just had Brexit because of how much they hate everybody else... and now Boris wants to pack in another million or two into an already crowded country.
That will be fun to watch.
Curiously, the overwhelmingly positive reaction this sub has to this will not be mirrored when looking at other immigrants. If this were to be applied to a dictatorship in the Middle East, I'm sure people here would be tearing their hair out decrying those fleeing as terrorists, criminals, and/or general scum.
There goes any hope of Britain getting back into the EU. China won't forget this.
Definitely not anyone’s first choice. Uprooting your whole family when not so long ago Hong Kong was doing just fine.
This is incredible. I wish America would join in. But has the UK talked about where they're going to house these generally well off migrants? This should be done in tandem with heft housing liberalization.
"Perfect immigrants" not like what we currently have. Bruh will we ever be able to live as one society without hating on each other ethnicity?
Nu kommer skrikvänstern gå i taket igen. De vill ju att alla som immigrerar till väst ska vara muslimer.
I would like to see a Commonwealth visa for these refugees. They can go to any British commonwealth country.
based Boris? could more immigration be their remedy for the economic hit from Brexit?
That’s going to so upset all those British nationalists who wanted to “control borders”.
Hong Kong > UK
Belarus > Lithuania[0]
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Has Brave stopped collecting BAT on behalf of verified sites, only to not allow such verified sites to either opt-out or to withdraw the funds like one should be able to do with an actual cryptocurrency?
https://blog.archive.today/post/621541311410995200/like-while-i-understand-there-is-an-issue-i-had
Brave and BAT is such a good idea but my god, their dev team is slow and their marketing strategy is almost non-existent.
Push BAT towards influencers and have them do your marketing for you.
Allow me to spend my BAT on subscription services like Netflix, NYT, Wikipedia etc..
inb4 a bitcoin maxi comes in here and says "brave is great, but BAT seems useless" and leaves and his comment is voted to the top. Brave is going to be the gateway to mainstream crypto adoption, and BAT is going to be a large part of it.
Jesus they took their time, this was a no brainer.
Is this company run by idiots?
Has anyone done anything meaningful with their BAT token yet? Last time I tried, it cost about 95% of total coin to transfer the remaining 5%
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With today's desktop browser update (v1.19), Brave is the first browser to offer a native IPFS integration, enabling users to seamlessly browse the decentralized Web, and increasing content availability and Internet resilience.
Read the official announcement from Brave and IPFS on Brave's blog: https://brave.com/ipfs-support/
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTDkTQiKzJA
See IPFS's official announcement on their blog: https://blog.ipfs.io/2021-01-19-ipfs-in-brave/
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I see the companion extension requires read/write perms on all websites visited, what steps are taken to ensure Brave users privacy?
Isn't this is too Brave focused and not BAT focused enough to be on here? I understand the idea that more Brave functionality is supposed to drive BAT adoption but this update (while really good) isn't a factor driving BAT decentralization, use-cases, or velocity. I feel like this sub is r/brave_browser jr at times and not r/BATproject.
Very nice! I just published my blog on IPFS after upgrading Brave and it all works fine (except for the search). You can try it here: ipns://blog.polaris64.net/
Test url:
ipfs://bafybeigwwctpv37xdcwacqxvekr6e4kaemqsrv34em6glkbiceo3fcy4si/
OP is just another brave shill. You’re not helping your cause by being so blatantly disingenuous
why do people think Firefox is gonna censor sites ? if you do, link the site ccensored.
If I choose to use a local node in Brave and then browse to a website that's using an IPFS gateway, will it still use my local node to copy the accessed content to make it available for other users? I know that's the case if you browse IPFS directly (via ipfs:// and ipns://), but I am not sure about sites that use the HTTP gateway.
EDIT: Seems like you need to use the IPFS Companion extension to automatically convert HTTP gateway URLs to ipfs:// or ipns://.
After years of the community asking for it, you still can't sync your BAT wallet across multiple devices, even when logged into the same Brave account.
I have a few quids worth on my work pc, but am unable to see them on either my phone or laptop at home. Whats worse, if I want to set up a separate wallet on each of the other devices, I have to wait until I've accrued 25 token before I can even do anything with them.
They should rename it Bullshit coin.
Again Brave is far ahead of the competition. IPFS is very small right now, but Brave is building real street cred with this functionality.
Gonna try this out and see how I like it. Might even host a node via the companion extension
Chromium OS has a raw sockets API, but it’s disabled in the Chrome browser. Brave has modified their build to whitelist those APIs for IPFS Companion to use - and this gives us superpowers compared to any other browser at this point.
I hope this doesn't result in any major vulnerabilities for Brave.
The Brave browser is great, I've used it for years on both desktop and mobile. BAT just seems unnecessary
Are IPNS endpoionts supported? If so what is the schema?
Looks like IPNS is supported using schemea #2
All about IPFS in Brave @rxjshi/using-ipfs-in-brave-fefc6a5b">https://read.cash/@rxjshi/using-ipfs-in-brave-fefc6a5b
This has nothing to do with that.
IPFS does absolutely nothing against deplatforming, it is just a more efficient way of storing and sharing data.
How does this work for a regular user, in terms of speeding up the web. Is this something that web devs have to implement into their sites before we see an improvement?
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