stifle867

It inspires hope to see other countries pick up the ball that the USA has been so consistently dropping.

Yes it is. The code is in Bitcoin Core so there's a non-zero chance you win at life if you want to try.

This is not an answer to your question but it's tangentially related.

Someone I greatly respected ran an open-source project with the policy of merge everything. Completely flip this idea of carefully review, debate and revise every PR. His theory was that it helps to build an open community, and if something breaks someone else will revert that commit. He says that the main branch was almost always stable, a massive improvement to how it was run previously. He passed several years ago and for some reason this reminded me of him.

I guess what I'm trying to say is if you get something out there that people find useful, the code will be looked at. It doesn't help you if you're looking for someone to collaborate sorry.

I've heard 2nd stories of the few old-timers who still know COBAL, FORTRAN, etc who have very generous salaries working in sectors like banking. It's probably too late now though.

It is frustrating but not unexpected. If someone wants to engage with me on an intellectual level then all respect even if we disagree. Some people aren't capable of that and it shows. I didn't think it was an inflammatory opinion and I'm still happy for someone to disagree with me and explain why. Maybe I'll change my mind, maybe I won't. I'm up for the discussion but some people just want to pick fights on the internet. Thanks for your response.

I'm unsure if the details of that process are public but presumably it is possible through coordination with the bank, the treasury department, or both. What I could find publicly was that CZ's personal fine of $70m is payable either by ETF, cashier's check or money order.

EDIT: This rabbit hole also led me to find out that this year, British American Tobacco has a $500m fine for violating some Weapons of Mass Destruction regulation. It sounds horrifying but they basically sold equipment to make cigarettes to the DPRK and tried to hide it. It's confronting seeing proof how blatantly corporations act. There was actual people who decided to do this.

I really don't understand how you can "force" anyone to do anything over Omegle but I guess that's neither here nor there. The more important point is that it would have been better to take the opportunity to catch more pedos doing the same thing on this site. They're still out there just moved to different platforms now. It's not really the win she thinks it is. There's HIGHLY questionable/NSFL stuff even on TikTok and Google Photos.

I wonder how the $1B "outflows" breaks down into cash withdrawals vs moving crypto off-exchange.

Oh people definitely use crypto all right! That's why they had to pay $4.6B to settle a money laundering case.

Arbitrary vs imaginary are distinctly different. You're both right but talking about different things.

Last time I had a pi-hole running it didn't effect YouTube ads and was known not to as pi-hole works at the DNS layer but YouTube ads are served from the same DNS endpoint.

I feel like this is something mass reportable. At least I will start, hopefully a mod can chime in on if this is tolerated.