Destroy it compared to what

That’s giving him way too much credit; he clearly doesn’t care about national security.

Since the payment address has been published, anyone can verify whether or not it’s received any payments.

It can’t sneeze

One way they could do it:

• assassin writes down their plan, including time, place, method, and payment address
• assassin hashes plan, then time-stamps and publishes the hash
• assassination takes place
• assassin publishes plantext plan and link to hash, proving beforehand knowledge
• sponsor pays assassin without even having to know who it is

It would be delightfully ironic if they used the crypto that Trump is deregulating.

Things will get wild once someone invents a decentralized assassination market.

Back in my day all the social engineering was done to humans.

Signal used to work this way and I’m still mad they dropped SMS.

In this context I think “crypto” means your message is encrypted across hops, not that you have to pay to send/receive messages.

This time around, we can keep lists too.

Yes in theory but no in practice. Another way of putting this is “will they appreciate your extra 10%” and the answer is always no.

Daily reminder that the only way to beat inflation is to get another job somewhere else. If you’re staying long enough for this to matter, then you’re leaving money on the table.

I volunteer for stuff like this if it gets me out of meetings. I’ve donated over a gallon of blood at work.

Desperate fear of termination. There’s like a 5% chance this will help.

Droppers!

They’re are a million wrong ways to come at the wrong conclusion. So why then would we be surprised when many of the people who come to the right conclusion still do it for a variety of reasons? Perhaps the initial premise of why copyright should exist is conceptually riddled with holes.

Owning an idea is inherently capitalist, but the average person who encounters a problem won’t spontaneously become anti-capitalist. They just know something seems wrong about this, but don’t understand why. So they make up a story to address their cognitive dissonance, like nihilism.

This might be one of those Democrat big brain moves like supporting Trump’s 2016 primary. Progressive ideas are more popular than they realize.

Then we’ll have to support it on a federal level too.

A democracy needs many things to work properly, and they’re all broken. Now that cryptocurrency exists, every politician needs to be regularly audited. With First Past the Post, we’re pressured into voting for people known to accept bribes. With gerrymandering, Republicans draw lines around the 26% support they actually need. Even the elections themselves need to be end-to-end auditabile.

It looks like they’re trying to capture “the center” - which side will be spoiled more?