Just learned the non-technical owners of my local climbing gym vibe-coded a mobile app for users to rate sets and log their sends... and it's awesome!
We are living in the best kind of sci-fi novel.
John retweeted
a single GPU now makes more than the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr
fucked up to say, but isn't that a sign of compute being underpriced?
one B300 produces much more value than a minimum wage human ☹️
Anyone else notice that the ZCG "crisis" was manufactured while the community's longest standing & most informed members were unavailable to comment? Convenient!
And did you notice how the social media cabal pivoted from "end the tax" to "keep the tax, but collect it into a new 'lockbox'"? But who can spend from that new lockbox? I'm sure the cabal will have opinions about that next episode!
Zcashers should study what happened this week.
@maxdesalle what happened to ending the tax? Why is everyone acting like redirecting the tax to a new entity is in any way an acceptable compromise?
John retweeted
Crime is crime. Not divulging private details about yourself is never a crime.
Society stopped treating crime as crime and started treating basic human dignity as a crime instead. We need to change that.
Me trying to spend $200 in web 2.0:
> Provide credit card
> We've texted you a security code
> Provide security code
> Card declined
> Check balance
> Card is paid off, everything is good.
> Try again.
> We've texted you a security code
> Provide security code
> Card declined
> I call support
> "We don't have your phone number"
> "What do you mean? You texted me the code twice"
> "We need your phone number again"
> Give my phone. Again.
> Retry payment. Send code. Declined again.
> Call support. Again.
> "I don't know why we declined you. Try again tomorrow"
> "But I need to buy this today"
> "Sorry, there's nothing we can do"
I love how our "money" can suddenly stop working one day, and we're supposed to just be ok with it.
This is why I zcash.
John retweeted
not only am i not worried about the crypto community's ability to handle the upcoming ai/quantum threat, i will venture to say that in the next 2 yrs the world will realize crypto is far better prepared for it than the rest of the internet and finance. we've had a trillion dollar *irreversible* honey pot for a decade, producing a far more battletested system and adversarial security culture than pretty much anywhere else on earth.
