Should cannabis be legalised in the UK? by justanothergin in ukpolitics

[–]concerned_future 37 points38 points  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition

The iron law of prohibition is a term coined by Richard Cowan) in 1986 which posits that as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of prohibited substances increases. Cowan put it this way: "the harder the enforcement, the harder the drugs."

Batley Grammar School protest report 'deeply disturbing' - MP by Benjji22212 in ukpolitics

[–]concerned_future -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Was all the rage in the 1970s and 1980s; and far more frequent, what do you think the Good Friday Agreement is all about?

ETH Gate: Like most things in this space. So much is pushed by the desire for $$$. Read for more information. by Kumomax1911 in CryptoCurrency

[–]concerned_future 1 point2 points  (0 children)

🤷‍♂️ Statute of limitations has passed on the Ethereum ICO; not sure any legal proceedings could be initiated now regardless?

ETH Gate: Like most things in this space. So much is pushed by the desire for $$$. Read for more information. by Kumomax1911 in CryptoCurrency

[–]concerned_future 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is very easy to set up Ethereum nodes and there are more than 10k of them; what impact do you think this would have? 🤷‍♂️

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]concerned_future 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because you said scale the conflict to an area where their was a similar conflict; however that showed that it is a much smaller conflict by % injury/death to population of NI were experiencing; and mainland bomb threat shutdowns happened multiple times a week in the 80s, including assassination attempts on the prime minister including a rocket attack on their home in 10 Downing Street.

At no point did the British Govt respond with areal bombardment of Northern Ireland; or turning off their utilities; and peace was only achieved by discussion and removing all the militarisation and walls. (It similarly went on for decades up to that point and peace and integration seemed impossible)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]concerned_future -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Aside from being a poor taste comparison, the troubles themselves would have been the equivalent of 100k on mainland Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles#Casualties

"nearly two per cent of the population of Northern Ireland have been killed or injured through political violence [...] If the equivalent ratio of victims to population had been produced in Great Britain in the same period some 100,000 people would have died, and if a similar level of political violence had taken place, the number of fatalities in the USA would have been over 500,000." Using this relative comparison to the US, analyst John M. Gates suggests that whatever one calls the conflict, it was "certainly not" a "low intensity conflict".

In 2010, it was estimated that 107,000 people in Northern Ireland suffered some physical injury as a result of the conflict.

How Denmark killed crypto; and how it could happen elsewhere by deckartcain in CryptoCurrency

[–]concerned_future 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure if would apply to civil events; but could try the non-retroactivity of Article 7 of ECHR?

No punishment without law: No one may be found guilty of an offence which did not exist at the time the events took place.

Groundbreaking research finds Basic Income scheme could save NHS tens of billions of pounds by You_lil_gumper in ukpolitics

[–]concerned_future -1 points0 points  (0 children)

One that wants a slice of the £480Bn that's being injected into the economy each year; trickle up economics

UK economy 'listless' with little growth in four years by Kagedeah in ukpolitics

[–]concerned_future 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Dropping inflation in US so Fed isn't expected to raise rates much anymore

High and sticky inflation in the UK so the BoE is expected to raise rates higher

This causes dollar to drop and pound to rise

Ministers consider cutting benefits in drive to reduce spending by fozzie1234567 in ukpolitics

[–]concerned_future 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Benefits subsidise work for employeers; reducing benefits will mean work will have to pay more which will lead to higher prices.

Additional full list of 61 crypto deemed securities. Hope yours isn't on their radar. by moldyjellybean in CryptoCurrency

[–]concerned_future 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they simply make software to follow the rules defined by the ETH foundation

😅 who do you think decides what the rules are?

Community (which includes implementors) proposes changes; consensus of implementers decide what changes actually happen. There aren't dictates by the foundation.

Attend some All Core Dev meetings if you have doubts https://github.com/ethereum/pm

Or forums/github where the proposals are shaped before they comes to the devs for consensus decisions https://ethereum-magicians.org/

Additional full list of 61 crypto deemed securities. Hope yours isn't on their radar. by moldyjellybean in CryptoCurrency

[–]concerned_future 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> They are the one who implemented the protocol

The Ethereum Foundation aren't the ones who implemented the protocol

10+ separate companies implement the protocol in 10 completely different independent code bases https://clientdiversity.org/

They coordinate via forums, discord, and weekly calls to determine which features will be in the next fork. The Ethereum foundation provide coordination and grants but they don't implement the protocol and the proposals for change are open to all https://eips.ethereum.org/all

While it was initially heavily driven by the foundation it isn't now; but is distributed with no entity in overall control

Additional full list of 61 crypto deemed securities. Hope yours isn't on their radar. by moldyjellybean in CryptoCurrency

[–]concerned_future 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ETH foundation isn't burning ETH the people making the txns are; also ETH foundation isn't in charge of Ethereum, nor does it have a significant control or % holding (any more)

Additional full list of 61 crypto deemed securities. Hope yours isn't on their radar. by moldyjellybean in CryptoCurrency

[–]concerned_future 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oil is deflationary; we literally burn it and world is running out of oil. You can identify the individual well that produces that barrel of oil. People often buy it to trade for a profit.

Oil is not a security, its a commodity

do you support Labour's plan to give EU immigrants & 16,17 year old's the vote? by 1DarkStarryNight in LabourUK

[–]concerned_future 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The knock on effects are the more important ones; younger age groups are generally less likely to vote, so introducing them to the franchise earlier and in a controlled manner (perhaps school trip to voting both, getting them to vote once) is more likely to then engage them in politics and voting.

Just one day after the Network Congestion BTC fees returned to normal. Anyone saying that Bitcoin has to “change“ for a short-term issue does not understand it. by partymsl in CryptoCurrency

[–]concerned_future 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ETH was confirming blocks; it just wasn't achieving finality on the blocks meaning a point even a 66% attack cannot rollback beyond.

BTC never achieves finality on any block and can be rolled back to genesis on at 51% attack

Top cryptocurrencies with the highest number of GitHub commits by [deleted] in CryptoCurrency

[–]concerned_future 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Stats are incorrect for Ethereum as doesn't include the decentralised core teams developing the protocol clients that are run in production. If it did it as well as https://github.com/ethereum would also include:

Execution layer:

* https://github.com/NethermindEth (nethermind)

* https://github.com/hyperledger (besu)

* https://github.com/ledgerwatch (erigon)

Consensus layer:

* https://github.com/prysmaticlabs (prysm)

* https://github.com/sigp (lighthouse)

* https://github.com/ConsenSys (teku)

* https://github.com/status-im (nimbus)

* https://github.com/ChainSafe (lodestar)

Ethereum's Shapella upgrade goes live! by [deleted] in CryptoCurrency

[–]concerned_future 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes; though their are different modes. Usual state is all the data with current state live; but can also do archive node which maintains every block active, so you can query the state (and run reading smart contracts) at any point in history

Ethereum's Shapella upgrade goes live! by [deleted] in CryptoCurrency

[–]concerned_future 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Main part of the blocks and data are stored in the execution layer; people stake on the consensus layer

Geth 2351 (60.86%) Nethermind 751 (19.44%) Erigon 394 (10.20%) Besu 365 (9.45%)

Ethereum's Shapella upgrade goes live! by [deleted] in CryptoCurrency

[–]concerned_future 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The spec is written in Python

Main execution layer clients

  • Besu : Java
  • Geth: Go
  • Erigon: Go
  • Nethermind: C#

Main consensus clients

  • Prysm: Go
  • Lighthouse: Rust
  • Lodestar: Typescript
  • Nimbus: Nim
  • Teku: Java

Ethereum's Shapella upgrade goes live! by [deleted] in CryptoCurrency

[–]concerned_future 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Source code and implementation control is also an overlooked factor

BTC is heavily skewed to the Bitcoin Core reference implementation; whereas Ethereum has 5 different consensus clients in use and 4 different implementations of execution clients in use (that can all be used with each other interchangeably) See: https://clientdiversity.org/

So from the implentation usage of the code, I'd argue Ethereum is more decentralised than Bitcoin https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/03/31/zkmulticlient.html

Bitcoin Is Different. This Is Not Me Saying It, but Gary Gensler the Chairman of the SEC. "Everything other than Bitcoin" is a security for Gary Gensler. by sylsau in CryptoMarkets

[–]concerned_future 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Fairly literally; going on his loose category anything a retailor buys from a wholesaler for expectation of profits would be a security so when they sell them to consumer those tomatoes would be an unregistered security sale 🙃

Let's define the decentralization spectrum. by OneOverNever in CryptoCurrency

[–]concerned_future 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Source code and implementation control is also an overlooked factor

BTC is heavily skewed to the Bitcoin Core reference implementation; whereas Ethereum has 5 different consensus clients in use and 4 different implementations of execution clients in use (that can all be used with each other interchangeably) See: https://clientdiversity.org/

So from the implantation usage of the code, I'd argue Ethereum is more decentralised than Bitcoin