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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Firstly it hasn’t actually happened yet, I guess you fell for the misleading windowscentral headline. Secondly it’s not really kneecapped, but required them to rewrite, which the uBO author decided not to do (as a statement I guess). Other ad blockers however have made new MV3 compatible versions that are comparable to the MV2 ones, so it’s clearly possible. Also don’t forget there are other chromium browsers besides chrome, if you use Brave you don’t even need to install an ad blocker because it’s built in.











  • All my points? That’s a bit rich

    You make a good point that PoS would solve one of the issues I raised which is electricity usage.

    In theory it could also increase throughput and reduce costs, but: a) in practice that hasn’t happened yet despite years of development, b) it’s never going to be as efficient as a centralised system because of the extra overheads necessary to decentralise it, so that point still stands

    All my other points still stand as well, plus the additional problems PoS creates to do with centralisation of power






  • A banking system running on Blockchain

    Is an astronomically terrible idea. It:

    • would use as much electricity as an entire country
    • payments/transfers would be both much slower AND much more expensive than via a bank
    • would have no protection against fraud. You got scammed? Your money’s gone. You paid for something online and it never arrived? Too bad
    • would have no way to stop money laundering
    • would have no way to help people who forgot their password, they’d just lose their life savings permanently
    • would tie up a bunch of capital, preventing reinvestment and growth. There would be no way to get a bank loan to buy a house for example
    • the list goes on