@pplsartofwar This guy's life story is a never ending series of shitty deals and stabbed backs, yet he pulls it out of the fire and makes wine with the blood of his enemies. Very based.
@DarvazaTravel@NY_ruisu Dont try it. Thailand has changed their tune to crack down on digital nomads who work online. Its considered illegal work (even online) on a tourist visa and is selectively enforced when they need leverage. They now want "high quality tourism" now.
@JoshYoung To be fair he is correct, but its his banker and regulatory buddies, with mountains of laws, lawsuits and carve outs that INTENTIONALLY hamstrung crypto. Using a CEX is NOW more bullshit than any bank, plus travel rule, ambitious treatment etc. Crypto is not ALLOWED to do that.
If they really start to gatekeep who gets to use the best models, that is a declaration of war.
This prospect fills me with the most sincere, bodily cypherpunk will-to-power that I've ever felt (at least since I was a teenager). If they really go down this route, I would go all-in on building the most psychotic swarms of open-source models and fine-tunes possible, all geared toward a Chaotic Good jamming of the entire institutional public sphere. If we didn't do that, all of political life and the marketplace of ideas would be over before we know it.
It's one thing if the top models become too expensive for me or others to use (I'm already pricing that in, and if you can't build something profitable enough to climb that ladder as it gets pulled up, then that's fair enough).
But if the ladder gets pulled up politically, now, so only select institutional players get access to the most intelligent models, then any mature American man should be as energized as gun collectors are around the 2nd Amendment, or liberal women are around Planned Parenthood.
@Solaawodiya Obviously I would prefer an open source ecosystem to also be available, but if they plan to use bullshit excuses to justify competitive and public lock out.. then they ALSO can't be trusted. SLAP FEDERAL RESTRICTIONS on it, they will price you out eventually anyway.
@Solaawodiya No ingestion of sum of human knowledge (without attribution) and distillery into a profit machine, then using regulatory capture to pull the ladder up behind you. If its *THAT* dangerous then take if from HIM and slap ITAR controls on it. Make it a taxpayer public good.
@MartelMetellus I quit decades ago but I agree that the smoking spot was a great democratizing place for previously inaccessible conversations and meetings that would never happen otherwise. There is truth to your theory.
@blockchainchick Michael Saylor, Non-Fungible tainted BTC, Epstein, Blockstream, Central ASIC mining, too expensive for retail, retail robbed by shitcoinery, no blackmarket use, Tether EU, OFAC, CEX/KYC carousel, Satoshi bag, not cash, just trying to sell it to the next guy for profit.
>Cooked
@TonyCorona1989@anonpragmatic@blockchainchick It's actually the worst asset to use as bearer cash. Its not fungible anymore since every CEX is hooked into OFAC enforcement. You can have "tainted BTC" that gets flagged and confiscated (not your fault) since its the most watched chain. XMR, XLM or even SOL would be better now.