kinkajou
@k1nk4j0u.bsky.social
I work with p2p distributed systems
"problematic substance use is correlated with increased rates of anxiety and depression, and young men who engage in it are more likely to slide into full-blown substance use disorders"
the rise of sports betting is hugely problematic, but this isn't a revelation by any means.
the rise of sports betting is hugely problematic, but this isn't a revelation by any means.
“The consequences extend beyond lost money. Hazardous gambling is correlated with increased rates of anxiety and depression, and young men who engage in it are more likely to slide into a full-blown gambling addiction. Boys who frequently gamble miss more classes, perform worse in school”
The rise of sports betting is a growing public health crisis
Sports betting is more addictive than ever, and millions of young Americans are paying the price.
www.statnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"problematic substance use is correlated with increased rates of anxiety and depression, and young men who engage in it are more likely to slide into full-blown substance use disorders"
the rise of sports betting is hugely problematic, but this isn't a revelation by any means.
the rise of sports betting is hugely problematic, but this isn't a revelation by any means.
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"This is not my normal spot but I'll remember where I put it"
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
"This is not my normal spot but I'll remember where I put it"
Card cheats have been using xray tables for decades now.
It was so common that casino playing cards now contain a carbon infused sheet of plastic in the middle to prevent this type of cheat.
It was so common that casino playing cards now contain a carbon infused sheet of plastic in the middle to prevent this type of cheat.
In the rigged poker games, DOJ says the alleged orchestrators had “x-ray tables” that could read the cards upside down.
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Card cheats have been using xray tables for decades now.
It was so common that casino playing cards now contain a carbon infused sheet of plastic in the middle to prevent this type of cheat.
It was so common that casino playing cards now contain a carbon infused sheet of plastic in the middle to prevent this type of cheat.
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4/ Real cypherpunk: write code that resists control. Build decentralized tools. Minimize trust, maximize freedom. The original cypherpunks just built — they didn't brand themselves or organize conferences about it. The work was the point, not the label.
October 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
4/ Real cypherpunk: write code that resists control. Build decentralized tools. Minimize trust, maximize freedom. The original cypherpunks just built — they didn't brand themselves or organize conferences about it. The work was the point, not the label.
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TradFi loves this narrative because it enables them to continue being entrenched middlemen that skim 290 bips off txns, vendor-lock you to their proprietary systems, and act as permissioned finance gateways.
They also know that won’t last forever, so they’re tokenizing and building L1s (Stripe)
They also know that won’t last forever, so they’re tokenizing and building L1s (Stripe)
Blockchain is a worthless solution in search of a problem.
Crypto *is* absolutely a ponzi scheme.
Crypto *is* absolutely a ponzi scheme.
October 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
TradFi loves this narrative because it enables them to continue being entrenched middlemen that skim 290 bips off txns, vendor-lock you to their proprietary systems, and act as permissioned finance gateways.
They also know that won’t last forever, so they’re tokenizing and building L1s (Stripe)
They also know that won’t last forever, so they’re tokenizing and building L1s (Stripe)
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her tireless work of begging the US to kill Venezuelans
Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.
Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.
n.pr
October 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
her tireless work of begging the US to kill Venezuelans
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I'll say it again - this push to get retirement savers into private equity and private credit funds is just the big money using your 401(k) as exit liquidity.
They're handing you the bag not the returns.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
They're handing you the bag not the returns.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
First Brands Collapse Blindsides Wall Street, Exposing Cracks in a Hot Corner of Finance
In hindsight, the telltale signs of trouble were piling up: the Zoom calls where the owner kept his camera off; the angry pushback from his brother when investors asked for invoices to back up their l...
www.bloomberg.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I'll say it again - this push to get retirement savers into private equity and private credit funds is just the big money using your 401(k) as exit liquidity.
They're handing you the bag not the returns.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
They're handing you the bag not the returns.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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I find it truly amazing that we've invented cross-border, near instant, global, internet based, uncensorable, decentralized, nearly feeless payments and yet people see it as the boogeyman
October 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I find it truly amazing that we've invented cross-border, near instant, global, internet based, uncensorable, decentralized, nearly feeless payments and yet people see it as the boogeyman
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I've been reading a bunch of AI skeptics lately, and I'm noticing how closely they resemble another kind of technology skeptic I know well — the bitcoin skeptic. Some patterns:
October 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I've been reading a bunch of AI skeptics lately, and I'm noticing how closely they resemble another kind of technology skeptic I know well — the bitcoin skeptic. Some patterns:
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if someone has a pet rock, nobody asks whether the rock is sentient. but if you kick the rock you are definitely an asshole.
October 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
if someone has a pet rock, nobody asks whether the rock is sentient. but if you kick the rock you are definitely an asshole.
Where are all the sarcastic Bitcoin "store of value lol" posts now?
What happened?
What happened?
October 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Where are all the sarcastic Bitcoin "store of value lol" posts now?
What happened?
What happened?
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Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.
October 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.
Everyone who actually understands the technology has been screaming at anyone who even pretends to listen about this inevitability for years.
All financial companies will be blockchain/crypto businesses. It was always going to happen.
All stocks will be tokenized.
All financial companies will be blockchain/crypto businesses. It was always going to happen.
All stocks will be tokenized.
SEC Is Moving to Allow Stocks to Trade Like Cryptocurrencies
there will be blood
there will be blood
September 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Everyone who actually understands the technology has been screaming at anyone who even pretends to listen about this inevitability for years.
All financial companies will be blockchain/crypto businesses. It was always going to happen.
All stocks will be tokenized.
All financial companies will be blockchain/crypto businesses. It was always going to happen.
All stocks will be tokenized.
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Maybe shutting down the government and then turning it back on will fix it
September 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Maybe shutting down the government and then turning it back on will fix it
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you are allowed to dislike cryptocurrency, you are not allowed to be this stubbornly misinformed about it; get smarter or shut up
September 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
you are allowed to dislike cryptocurrency, you are not allowed to be this stubbornly misinformed about it; get smarter or shut up
- Trump spends half a decade attacking NATO and alienating the EU, emboldening Russia
- Russia starts a literal war with Ukraine, China and Iran finance it
"It would be so funny if EUROPE starts the war that definitely isn't already happening"
- Russia starts a literal war with Ukraine, China and Iran finance it
"It would be so funny if EUROPE starts the war that definitely isn't already happening"
It would be very funny if after all the (misplaced) fear of Trump kicking of WW3 the Europeans did it instead.
*EUROPEANS PRIVATELY TELL RUSSIA THEY’RE READY TO DOWN JETS
*EUROPEANS PRIVATELY TELL RUSSIA THEY’RE READY TO DOWN JETS
September 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
- Trump spends half a decade attacking NATO and alienating the EU, emboldening Russia
- Russia starts a literal war with Ukraine, China and Iran finance it
"It would be so funny if EUROPE starts the war that definitely isn't already happening"
- Russia starts a literal war with Ukraine, China and Iran finance it
"It would be so funny if EUROPE starts the war that definitely isn't already happening"
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New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching
New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.
www.404media.co
September 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
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Every small business owner should support Universal Public Healthcare.
Small businesses are at such a disadvantage compared to corporations when it comes to providing health insurance.
How am I supposed to create a diverse risk pool with myself and two employees?
Small businesses are at such a disadvantage compared to corporations when it comes to providing health insurance.
How am I supposed to create a diverse risk pool with myself and two employees?
The State should be the payroll service.
It makes no sense to put a middleman who tries to interpret the state's laws, then calculate taxes and withholdings and charges every business when the state could simply do this without taking an additional cut
It makes no sense to put a middleman who tries to interpret the state's laws, then calculate taxes and withholdings and charges every business when the state could simply do this without taking an additional cut
September 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Every small business owner should support Universal Public Healthcare.
Small businesses are at such a disadvantage compared to corporations when it comes to providing health insurance.
How am I supposed to create a diverse risk pool with myself and two employees?
Small businesses are at such a disadvantage compared to corporations when it comes to providing health insurance.
How am I supposed to create a diverse risk pool with myself and two employees?
When many "crypto people" got started in the industry cryptocurrency was just an open source experiment, and you literally couldn't make any money doing it.
Some people saw a problem and set out to fix it. From the very beginning it was about making the world a better place with better money.
Some people saw a problem and set out to fix it. From the very beginning it was about making the world a better place with better money.
largest sponsor of rustconf this year was a crypto foundation.
Crypto people have been doing things from accelerating sha256, lighting dark fiber lines globally, building zk privacy tools, decreasing the cost and delay of global money velocity, and supporting popular systems programming languages.
Crypto people have been doing things from accelerating sha256, lighting dark fiber lines globally, building zk privacy tools, decreasing the cost and delay of global money velocity, and supporting popular systems programming languages.
September 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
When many "crypto people" got started in the industry cryptocurrency was just an open source experiment, and you literally couldn't make any money doing it.
Some people saw a problem and set out to fix it. From the very beginning it was about making the world a better place with better money.
Some people saw a problem and set out to fix it. From the very beginning it was about making the world a better place with better money.
"Objectively good people with good judgement"
"racist"
Marcus Hutchins is an objectively stupid person with bad judgement.
"racist"
Marcus Hutchins is an objectively stupid person with bad judgement.
September 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"Objectively good people with good judgement"
"racist"
Marcus Hutchins is an objectively stupid person with bad judgement.
"racist"
Marcus Hutchins is an objectively stupid person with bad judgement.
I'm confused - are we condemning political violence or are we memorializing Charlie Kirk?
September 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I'm confused - are we condemning political violence or are we memorializing Charlie Kirk?
Don't forget the part where they start censoring transactions if you sell content/products they disagree with via the point of sale systems they make you pay for.
Companies love takes like this because it means they can charge 2.9% + $0.30 on transactions, sell proprietary point of sale systems, lend with opaque underwriting, paywall bridges across institutions, and still take days to clear.
Then we say “blockchain is a solution looking for a problem.”
Then we say “blockchain is a solution looking for a problem.”
September 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Don't forget the part where they start censoring transactions if you sell content/products they disagree with via the point of sale systems they make you pay for.
The left needs to get over their irrational hatred of cryptocurrency and start advocating for its use in fighting back against this regime.
How long until they just start taking the money out of Democrat's bank accounts? They already did it in New York.
How long until they just start taking the money out of Democrat's bank accounts? They already did it in New York.
It is not illegal to fund constitutionally protected free speech in the U.S.
Tom Homan: People Donating To Anti-ICE Protesters 'Will Be Prosecuted Too'
White House border czar Tom Homan warned that people funding First Amendment protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "would be prosecuted."
crooksandliars.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The left needs to get over their irrational hatred of cryptocurrency and start advocating for its use in fighting back against this regime.
How long until they just start taking the money out of Democrat's bank accounts? They already did it in New York.
How long until they just start taking the money out of Democrat's bank accounts? They already did it in New York.
Wait til this guy hears about USD
Drug dealers use crypto.
September 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Wait til this guy hears about USD
Now that the government owns part of Intel expect the clipper chip to make a comeback.
The government has been very transparent in their desire for access to our encrypted data and communications.
Now they have the means to make it happen.
The government has been very transparent in their desire for access to our encrypted data and communications.
Now they have the means to make it happen.
August 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Now that the government owns part of Intel expect the clipper chip to make a comeback.
The government has been very transparent in their desire for access to our encrypted data and communications.
Now they have the means to make it happen.
The government has been very transparent in their desire for access to our encrypted data and communications.
Now they have the means to make it happen.