If you're looking for benevolence from a VC-backed, massively funded company who's released a promising bit of open source technology, you'll want to study the 3Es strategy.
Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia
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It's encouraging to see pieces like this hitting the front page of Hacker News.
"Your credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit systems that track you, score you, and reward you based on your behavior."
Your Phone Already Has Social Credit. We Just Lie About It.
It's a gorgeous website. I'll give them that.
That so many companies persist, against all seemingly good reason, in building their own blockchain/shitcoin/whatever tells us so much about the profits to be had in MITM'ing payments.
They'll join the Bitcoin network only when they have no choice left to make. At the price they deserve.
Tempo
Tempo: the blockchain for payments at scale
Tempo is a purpose-built, Layer 1 blockchain for payments, developed in partnership with leading fintechs and Fortune 500s. Tempo enables high-thro...
I helped a fellow @Bitcoin Park member install @GrapheneOS yesterday. He's capable and committed, but not particularly technical. When it came to installing FOSS apps, I explained F-Droid, Obtainium, and @Zapstore, along with hunt-and-find YOLO-style APK downloads, each with their attendant tradeoffs.
He ruled out F-Droid on technical deficiencies.
He tried Obtainium and understandly struggled with the complex, poor UX.
He was uncomfortable with trusting seemingly random downloads.
He tried Zapstore and succeeded, app after app.
UX matters much more than most developers can seem to wrap their heads around. We do not get broad adoption without it. Fin.
gm, good people. ☕ May you wake and embrace the day with the unbounded and dogged energy of my four year old.
Look what I found. ⚡ @Damus
Yes.
There appear to be widespread failures of Google's RCS messaging feature, myself included. Group chats inaccessible and fallback to vanilla, unsecured SMS/MMS.
Good time to Signal pill.
New Tame Impala.👌🏼
gm, good people. ☕ Happy Friday.
Permissionless is power. Everything else is illusion.
Arc browser gets subsumed after raising $128M. One more down. We need you, Ladybird.
Your Tuesday in 2030
Or why The Browser Company is being acquired to bring Dia to the masses.
OH: "I have zero interest in participating in the dopamine circus of social media."
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