Funny, I found this today after doing a deep dive on Rust and OS development. I was in awe at the quality of this content. You come out of it not only learning so much about the history and design of operating systems, but you start to pick up elements of Rust as well. Phil did an incredible job on this.

For those of us in the industry, we recognize that this is all one grand experiment. In my mind, it is worth all of the hype b/c digital currencies pose the following two big benefits:

- Digital currency is a new asset class and an improved form of money. Money as a concept has been around since the dawn of recorded history and it has gone through a number of iterations since. We have only been using nation-backed currencies for between 100-200 years depending on where you set the departure from the gold standard. For most of human history, we have had "hard money", meaning that no one had the power to inflate our money and lower its value(through gold). Nations have that ability today, and it has had far reaching implications. Digital currency has the potential to reduce or eliminate government control of our money. If you think this is a libertarian vision, you would be wrong. Just look at the internet and how it has quickly changed the publishing industry. Digital currencies are also programmable, meaning they have features that normal money simply does not have. Shared custody of funds and time locked funds are just two great examples. - Digital currency paves the way for superior payment networks. The ability to send digital currency is cheaper, faster, and more global than any payment network ever invented. Our traditional financial system is steeped with trust-based relationships, manual checks, competing parties, and fraud. This results in inefficiencies from top to bottom. This all results in bank wires taking between 4-14 days, whereas a digital currency transaction takes an hour to settle on average. In the future, digital currency will also be capable of sending smaller value transactions than ever before.

If you think that aspects of this industry are ridiculous and mere gambling, you would be correct. As a person in the industry, I tend to ignore much of the industry. That being said, there are some incredibly novel ideas that are motivating the best of us to get this system working. If we succeed, we will have a much more open, fast, less expensive, and global financial system to use.

I suggest you learn more about the financial space. In no world do bank wires take 4 to 14 days. Trust is an efficiency. Inflation is not bad because you’re not supposed to be using Cash as an investment you’re supposed to be investing it, as long as you’re not doing that under a mattress, inflation is a relevant to you other than as a forcing function toward investment. Nobody wants to be their own bank, it sucks that’s why we have banks.

A note on cash, since when is saving a bad thing?

I’m not saying banking is evil by any means, but I do think the whole industry could use some competition. The industry moves super slow, and I think digital currency would make things far more competitive.

I think digital currency’s improvements to money, that I mentioned, are the point.

I would agree with this. They need to get re-branded and completely ignore the accusations of ageism in the industry, and instead just focus on finding high quality mentors with many years of experience, who will all be older.

That story about the CTO getting married in the morning and going back to work is cringeworthy...

My thoughts exactly.

>> Simple things like scrolling can be very spotty most of the time.

That's just FUD. Only hybrid apps that use non-native scrolling are jittery, and for years now you can use '-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch` to get native scrolling with bouncing.

This is crazy awesome. How would you sell your cell service once setup? And who would you sell it to?

Cofounder here. All service is prepaid, and we have a credit transfer system built-in. The network operator can load up credits onto someone's account directly through our management interface, and that user can resell it to whoever they like. For example, a network operator could sell credits in bulk directly to shop owners, who could then resell to the community at large.

This is only for data, no voice, right? Otherwise how would you negotiate with the other carriers/federal body to generate/register valid phone numbers?

BTW how do you handle roaming? Does the SIM card only work for your particular carrier? Or does it somehow integrate with the existing ones?

So I checked this out back in 2013, and it has gotten significantly better. For one, it doesn't include a giant script at the top of each document this time around, so that's a major plus. I haven't used it very extensively, but I have high hopes for products like this. Game engine map editors have been around for decades. It would be really cool if we could create tooling that is able to spit out complex web app designs in the same way.

Came here to say this. That site was so awesome back in the day. Still is.