Seems like every celebrity and talk show host was pushing NFT's, be it Kardasians, Kimmel, Fallon, even Bill Murray released a collection 1 month ago. Ultra stars like Tom Brady to Mark Cuban were investing and (still) talking about crypto companies they are heavily invested in. Half the superbowl ads this year were advocating for people to waste money on crypto.
I wasted a year of my life working for a crypto company, I've actually committed code to Ethereum through the Geth project. I learned it's all a casino of completely useless money moving schemes.
What makes even ENS cool tech? The sole purpose of those .eth domains is to receive crypto, ohh and make the founders extremely wealthy. Why did they need to launch an ENS coin, other than to dump on the public when it was 5x the current price.
I'll take you up on that challenge. I can open open up my Wells Fargo app and initiate a wire transfer within 5 minutes. In fact, I sent $1000 to a home contractors bank account earlier this week for no fee. And yes, WF sent me email updates of the status. I will concede it took 1 business day though.
How do I send USDC within 5 mins? I would have to
1) Open an account on a crypto exchange app
2) Go through the KYC process and hookup the same wells fargo account to buy USDC.
3) Purchase USDC, usually while paying a fee. And then still wait the day for the funds to be sent from WF to the exchange.
4) Send USDC to address, while also paying a fee.
There is a reason international remittances haven't worked as a use case, for ex Coinbase just closed down that entire project. How would immigrants who get paid in Cash buy USDC and how would their family in Mexico or El Salvador be able to convert that USDC into local spendable currency. I hate western union but it works better than any crypto money sending service.
If you count the time for opening an exchange account and doing kyc, you should do the same when you talk about your bank. You only have to open the exchange account once just like you do for your bank. After that it's definitely cheaper and faster to send crypto. Whether or not it's as secure depends on what bank we are comparing to.
Crypto cheaper? Seriously? I pay $0 in fees for doing an EFT (or ACH) from my bank account to another bank account. Wire transfers via a currency trading platform I use don't charge a percentage either. If I tried to do that via crypto, I'd be paying a few points in exchange fees to go from fiat to crypto then back again in another country. It isn't cheaper if you're using the right banking platform.
If you hold USDC on-chain, it's 30 seconds or less. If you hold some other token (ETH or MATIC for example) it might take a few seconds longer for you to make a swap.
My remote org had an onsite this past week. I forgot how much I hate 'socializing' and how useless water cooler talk is.
They tried their best to make it enjoyable but I am so much happier in my home office with no background noise, no need to get dressed up, and being able to define my own schedule (I eat lunch at 3-4pm and bay tech orgs serve lunch at noon with all the smells disturbing me).
I expect the vast majority of Return-To-The-Office managers are extroverts who have no understanding of the energy toll that socializing requires from the introverts who work for them.
My NAS has a torrent downloading software and an app for my Samsung TV. I just visit my local network web address, add the torrent in the NAS dashboard, and am able to play it from the TV within a few minutes. Most content is great, occasionally there are audio issues or missing subtitles.
Right, but there are I think a few assumptions there:
1. You need to set up NAS and downloading software - that is not as trivial or common as HN audience assumes :)
2. You need a reliable and safe source of torrents. They may be paid or invite only, or may be super scammy and unrealiable and mine crypto etc etc
3. How safe do you feel in your jurisdiction/location at running plain torrents. Here you get notices and sometimes strikes / actions pretty quickly, so now we are talking at least a VPN, which is next layer of setup, configuration, possibly price, possibly its own threat vector as commercial VPNs are scammy, your own VPN is non-trivial to setup correctly.
(Note that this is perhaps magical thinking, but I would personally not be comfortable running torrents to "iffy" sites/locations/purposes, on the same primary storage array with my tax documents and family photos etc; my NAS is as local-network-only as humanly possible. That is a segregation and personal preference though, and does not detract from your main point)
2) as long as you are not looking for exotic stuff you can just use public trackers or semi-private ones (they require an account but usually you do not have to keep a ratio, do not need an invite and they do not require you to sell your soul to the devil).
If you want to go down this route (and you use *arr) prowlarr is a must have to avoid wasting time copying configs between the *arr.
I worked at a security consulting firm that had an 8 GPU password cracking rig. Teams would be able to send it hashes obtained during assessments/red teams and try to discover passwords.
I was not doing that type of work so I'm not sure what type of software was used but I think it had multiple open source programs available.
I work in security (at a crypto/web3 company!) and the opposite line of thought prevails in the field, most security experts argue that biometric data is fundamentally insecure especially for auth. A quick google search shows a lot of research backing that, from universities to major tech companies.
>Using ZK-Snarks with biodata allows you to verify, profit and protect your data. Instead of handing it to some entity to do god knows with.
How is this going to happen exactly? The requesting entity, like a doctor, asks for medical history. I use my retina to verify, and thanks to ZK-Snarks they have no knowledge of my retina data. How are they going to get the blood pressure readings? They need the data to analyze and understand. And what stops them from saving it in their own DB?
Similar with many of these web3 products. Think, uniswap or defisaver. Ok you can use ZK to auth, they have no idea what wallet address is connected. But as soon as you use it they know exactly who and what you transferred and traded, all stored in a DB.
Seems like every celebrity and talk show host was pushing NFT's, be it Kardasians, Kimmel, Fallon, even Bill Murray released a collection 1 month ago. Ultra stars like Tom Brady to Mark Cuban were investing and (still) talking about crypto companies they are heavily invested in. Half the superbowl ads this year were advocating for people to waste money on crypto.