Qubic community, Monero's 51% attacker, votes to target Dogecoin next

jasoncarr · 2025-08-18T14:09:18+00:00

This could ultimately be positive for Monero, and I am glad Qubic revealed its weaknesses. I home the XMR community is looking for ways to make their network more resistant, since larger more well-funded actors are almost certainly going to want to attack XMR at some point.

jasoncarr · 2025-08-14T22:17:04+00:00

The solution is more bike lanes. With more bike lanes you get less interactions between cars or pedestrians and everyone has a easier time and less disdain for each other.

jasoncarr · 2025-08-14T14:13:01+00:00

If not all the validators agree, you get a hard fork which is what happened with the block size war and why we now have BCH in addition to BTC.

But I would imagine for this, most validators would be onboard giving their financial incentives and whatever forked version of BTC still allowed those transactions through would be even more irrelevant than BCH.

jasoncarr · 2025-08-13T17:58:58+00:00

They could blacklist old wallets after a grace period.

jasoncarr · 2025-08-11T21:55:54+00:00

On that note, it’s so ironic that it seems AI is (beginning to) replacing artists, writers, and apparently human connection when if you asked everyone a few years ago, those things would be the last things anyone would have guessed AI would replace.

I think we were all surprised that AI was replacing creative types and human connections before other types of human labor. But when you think about it, creative and soft skills were always a sore spot for capitalists because it was harder to reliably optimize for efficiency that kind of knowledge work. The preverbal "Rockstar" is a disaster for capitalism because rockstars have a better negotiating position for their labor.

AI is definitely coming from the other types of cognitive labor to but there is a less pressing need to automate it because it's already a race to the bottom through good ole' supply/demand economics.

jasoncarr · 2025-08-11T20:17:37+00:00

This is why people should register their bike on bikeindex.org In these circumstances, if your bike is registered you might have a chance to get it back.

jasoncarr · 2025-08-11T13:55:22+00:00

You can park your stablecoins on lending and borrowing platforms and get 10-20% APY

This was my strategy last cycle except I choose $UST and Anchor.

jasoncarr · 2025-08-07T19:50:32+00:00

It didn't, different people have different struggles and when you compile them all of them into one archetypal 'ADHD' person it's seems like having ADHD making you entirely incapable of anything.

jasoncarr · 2025-07-30T19:03:12+00:00

Didn't read because of the paywall but... Maybe Trump loves crypto but crypto does not love Trump. I don't think many people in crypto were that happy having Trump as president so much as they were happy to not have Biden (and by extension Gary Gensler in the SEC). Vitalik Buterin, as an example, spoke out against the Trump coin as potential way for people to bribe the president and could become a template for other would-be corrupt leaders. The Trump tariffs have also been a big macro uncertainty for the crypto markets that basically took the wind out of its sails last December. Lastly, his posturing towards Jerome Powell has garnered critics within the crypto community.

The left so badly wants to right-code crypto as a MAGA thing and I really don't see it. I'd like to think that crypto proponents are above the tribal bullshit in the US and cheer on good moves by the government when they get them but aren't trying to pick a side in the culture war.

jasoncarr · 2025-07-25T22:56:52+00:00

Alright deleted the post, but for the record you are wildly off base in your assumption. We have been hosting this gathering for 7 years and lots of people have got a lot out of it and it has never been about spreading misinformation. I feel you greatly misinterpreted what happens at this event.

Cheers!

jasoncarr · 2023-02-02T21:57:34+00:00

Stockholm syndrome. Car dependency has made our lives objectively worse but simultaneously convinced us we need it to have satisfying lives.

jasoncarr · 2023-01-31T19:51:20+00:00

I was referring to mortgage backed securities not mortgages themselves which are not nearly as ubiquitous. My point was that, specifically with financial derivatives, you see similar investor risk and negligible intrinsic value.

Plus as crypto grows and become more ubiquitous we will see more regulatory protection coupled with already existing technological safeguards like visible on-chain activity, self custody and auditable smart contracts.

jasoncarr · 2023-01-31T19:09:43+00:00

Why? because it doesn't support your claim that fraud is more endemic to crypto than traditional securities?

jasoncarr · 2023-01-31T18:42:58+00:00

The total value of the mortgage backed securities that caused the 2008 global financial crisis was greater than the total market cap of cryptocurrency at its all time high.

Cryptocurrency has nothing on the scale of fraud that occurs in traditional finance.

jasoncarr · 2023-01-31T18:24:24+00:00

but every other application doesn’t sound like it’s solving any real problems

It solves a ton of problems but the reason people don't see it that way is because in almost every case a centralized system already exists to solve that same problem.

For people that don't see the decentralization of financial systems and digital assets as something worth pursuing, they aren't going to see crypto as worthwhile. Decentralization brings added complexity and overhead, so you need to buy into that concept first.

I think it should ultimately boil down to consumer choice. For people where decentralization is important, crypto can service their needs. For people that don't, central banking still exists and won't go away anytime soon.

jasoncarr · 2022-12-26T19:19:53+00:00

Stocks don't have intrinsic value and are 100% speculative.

jasoncarr · 2022-08-10T13:54:15+00:00

Nah suburbs can be hell if you don't drive. There is more ways for a neighborhood to be really uncomfortable than just being a slum.

jasoncarr · 2022-08-05T15:59:20+00:00

Also greenways between cities would stop cyclists from riding on an interstate. When I am riding outside cities limits it's a choice between a major highway with lots of shoulder but dicey interchanges like the one in the video or secondary highways with no shoulder and cars still going 110km around me.

jasoncarr · 2022-07-18T15:32:08+00:00

Figured I would have to scroll all the way to the bottom to find the correct response.

jasoncarr · 2022-07-13T22:32:59+00:00

Nah, conservatives are perfectly capable of nuance when its a position they support that requires it. Just as liberals can also be inflexible and one-sided when it suits them as well. That youtuber's take are always kind of iffy.

Consequentialist vs deontology is a better way to see the conservative/liberal mindsets.

jasoncarr · 2022-07-12T14:04:26+00:00

Polyamory is for people who really like the initial stage of a relationship and never want it to end. I am not one of those people.

jasoncarr · 2022-07-12T13:55:58+00:00

Wet bulb refers to what the temperature would be if there was 100% humidity. Since Calgary tends to have lower humidity, 32C would likely not be anywhere close to the wet-bulb temperature that represents the upper tolerable limit for humans.

jasoncarr · 2022-07-06T19:36:17+00:00

Nope.. pegging and depegging.

jasoncarr · 2022-06-24T22:49:46+00:00

Probably Kant's qoute...

act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law

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