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you should know i am earnest. i'm learning how to snark. i try to say what i mean and mean what i say.

sometimes i do try to make jokes, but I am not sarcastic.

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he basically was all of EFF europe when i found him mid-2000s. he also worked boingboing for a very long time.

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dogecoin is top10

bigMouthCommie ,
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two of the top 10 by market cap ar stable coins.

bigMouthCommie ,
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the entire Bitcoin block chain could be run on the phone I'm using to write this. there is nothing inherent to the protocol that dictates such massive power use.

and dogecoin merge mines with all the other script coins so how can you even calculate its independent usage?

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that market cap is a dumb metric to use to dictate protocol specifications

bigMouthCommie ,
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if they don't explain their methodology, there is no reason to believe they got it right

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there is every reason to not believe them. they clearly have a motivation to paint power consumption as worse than is true, and the complexity of extracting the use of dogecoin mining from the rest of the mergedmine is, personally, unfathomable. maybe i'm dumb and there is a simple calculation that can be done, but without evidence of their methodology, i'm not going to believe them, and no one should.

bigMouthCommie ,
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the specifications of the bitcoin protocol require proof of work. using the market cap to dictate what the protocol specification should be is absurd.

bigMouthCommie ,
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seems like you undrestand that market cap is irrelevant to the protocol design.

bigMouthCommie ,
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the work that goes into mining those blocks should be discounted by the amount of energy that goes into mining every other merge-mined chain

bigMouthCommie ,
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not everyone is merge-mining and even those who do may only be merge-mining specific chains.

bigMouthCommie ,
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it's a bit like clocking your gas mileage to and from work, and then saying thats how much gas it took you to get out of your driveway.

bigMouthCommie ,
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the hash rate for the first blocks was achievable with a pentium 3. the protocol functioned then. there is nothing inherent to the protocol that dictates more hashpower is used. a 51% attack is the protocol functioning properly.

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asic miners are the problem with crypto's energy consumption. nothing is wrong the the bitcoin protocol, which is functioning as expected.

bigMouthCommie ,
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you seem to understand that the protocol can function without the massive power use but you seem to want to blame the protocol for the power use.

at this point, we have to agree to disagree.

have a nice day

bigMouthCommie ,
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>At scale

what does that mean?

bigMouthCommie ,
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> at any given time, someone will be willing to put more energy (work) into it to gain an advantage

that's not a problem with the protocol. that's a problem with people. that's like saying that houses are a problem because people rent them to exploit the working class. the problem isn't the house, it's the people who try to buy all the houses.

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a 51% attack means that 51% of the hashpower has agreed on a certain chain. this happens every 10 minutes.

bigMouthCommie ,
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>it’s been in steady decline since the meme blew up.

it got a pretty big bump from elon a couple years back, but dogecoin is nearly perfect money. it isn't deflationary, it's cheap to transact, and the on-ramps are ubiquitous.

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PoW isn't a problem at all.

bigMouthCommie ,
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>There IS a problem of using the protocol (at scale) though, because it creates this
unsustainable environment.

this isn't true. the protocol is still functioning fine. the problem is how people are using the protocol.

bigMouthCommie ,
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you can certainly use it: using the protocol to transact doesn't contribute meaningfully to power consumption. power consumption is almost entirely in the mining.

bigMouthCommie ,
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no, it's the protocol functioning properly.

bigMouthCommie ,
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even a 51% attack is just the protocol following its prescribed mechanisms.

bigMouthCommie ,
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uh... adoption, stability, code commits, forks....

bigMouthCommie ,
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free software is. open source is an attempt to sell free software out to capitalist interest.

eric raymond and the OSI are not good.

bigMouthCommie ,
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but open source isn't anticapitalist

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i also would like to interject and say i don't trust anyone involved with the development or promotion of nostr.

bigMouthCommie ,
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for me, it's "per my last email"

bigMouthCommie ,
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the thunderbird rewrite, the acquisition of k-9, the integration of outlook, the launch of mozilla.social, and saving thunderbird settings on the cloud (formerly firefox account, now mozilla account) are all things happening in the last year.

i think mozilla has been kickin ass.

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bigMouthCommie ,
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i quite like mozilla. can you explain why you dont?

bigMouthCommie ,
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wanna be friends?

bigMouthCommie ,
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abandoned?

the podcast and blog indicate you are mistaken.

bigMouthCommie ,
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there is a thunderbird specific one, too

bigMouthCommie ,
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i just dont understand people who only have criticisms of them. no one is perfect but its not as though they only do bad things.

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    bigMouthCommie ,
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    everyone can determine their own need for self defence

    bigMouthCommie ,
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    I was watching MasterChef and Ramsey shouted "if it's not finished cooking, turn up the heat!" and I have used that line thousands of times since then, but I tried it with a braided puff pastry and fucking ruined it.

    bigMouthCommie ,
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    flip those and double them

    bigMouthCommie ,
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    clone the Mac address

    bigMouthCommie ,
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    I'm just spit balling here: backup pi pings munute-ly main pi. if main pi is down 2 pings, it resets Mac and reboots network interface.

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