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This is so incredibly ill-informed it's hard to respond to. Thanksfully, it's incumbent on the person making the extraordinary claim...

> currency exclusively used for doing crimes

... to provide extraordinary evidence.

On my end, my home is financed by a trust-minimized loan against my BTC, using a stablecoin. And I greatly prefer stablecoins to wires for paying international vendors.


You're right, many crypto exchanges operating on the right side of the law will freeze these funds.

For those interested in this, CT (crypto twitter) makes tracking North Korea's stolen winnings a bit of a sport.

samczsun, an excellent security auditor who's working at Paradigm these days, broke down some of the org in a post the other day.

https://x.com/samczsun/status/1906754853063565720?t=N4aqa6Vy...

Taylor Monahan at MetaMask also makes a habit of tracing funds and shares some pretty interesting finds around NK's laundering efforts.


There are certainly funds with a thesis that you might consider good for the world. Eg social impact, femtech, women and BIPOC-founded co's, etc.

LPs are often large allocators like pension funds who are making decisions for other people's money. I do think there's room here, but you have to ask yourself who the LP's are.


There are also platforms that allow individuals to invest directly in impactful opportunities without the traditional LP structure, like https://www.citizenmint.com, https://www.energea.com, and occasionally investments on https://www.yieldstreet.com.


> The software, hardware, and battery life just aren’t there.

Writing this from a Framework 13. I've been using Linux laptops for the past 15 years, and this is the first time a Linux-friendly machine has checked all my boxes (including excellent battery life).


What you're describing here is dualism and Descartes, in response to a post that references Buddhist scholars, a philosophy famously focused on monism.

"Cognitive science" vs "neuroscience" as a concept is just how we decided to slice the problem up for academia.

Next time, maybe cut the first paragraph ;)


David Sacks*


thanks, fixed!


David *Sucks


Tell me you've never worked in fintech without telling me you've never worked in fintech :)

Decimals aren't enough. You have frequent currency conversions and all sorts of other chores. Using a fixed-decimal datatype doesn't solve those problems by itself, it's just a tactic.


See JSR-354 then: https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=354

Yes, I never worked in fintech, but lots of my family members work or worked in banking sector. So, I'm not an alien when it comes to money, and how it works and processed in IT side of the things.


North Korea is known for doing this in the crypto space to pull off heists.


Uh, shouldn't it raise the question about every developer you work with, period?

Even if you just think Mossad does this (not the case), if they want to mess with you, it's pretty poor op/sec to declare their nationality first.


Cool thing about the space — you can likely check the source yourself + find the audit reports!


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