No, it’s not that people are unaware, or even don’t believe it, it’s that they can’t reason about it strategically

It’s spending now to save later. If that’s about military spending or emergency services everyone gets paying taxes for it, but words are as far as most will go to stop nonspecific far future weather. Even when people talk about the situation with climate change, you hear them frame it in moral terms instead of practical terms.

Case in point: Canada has a carbon tax, and a majority want to get rid of it. Denialism is not a prominent part of the campaign, just the fact that it costs something. And not even much, and it’s all given back in refunds - doesn’t matter, the extra gas cost people will bear is zero.

The obvious answer is fossil fuels, right? Few people want to cook the climate, they just can’t quite fathom something that abstract and slow-moving, so they do it anyway.

Less obviously, feeding all our most sensitive data to random websites and apps. Again, the threat just doesn’t look enough like a sabre-tooth tiger.

Glad I could share something interesting!

Yeah. A blockchain is a chain - new stuff is built on top of old, and it grows forever. Ripple’s ledger is all relatively up to date information IIRC. It doesn’t actually need the chain, because as long as a critical number of nodes agree on a single order of transactions, they can agree that only the first spend of a set is valid if it would otherwise lead to double-spending (which is the main challenge of a distributed currency).

How that agreement is reached in an asynchronous network with possible malicious nodes is the real trick, and at that point I do start getting fuzzy on the details. Byzantine fault tolerance is hard. I think I’m actually going to read the whitepaper (again?), now that I’m thinking about it.

Edit: It’s still not. I guess “blockchain” has just become just a marketing term at this point. The current crypto market is dumb even if crypto isn’t.

I’m going to say it just is misinformation, if that’s what “lib” is here.

Sure, I’ll PM you.

For anyone else, it’s easy to find by search, but it feels like one of those things that could be ruined if it got too well-known.

Yeah, I know how Ripple works. The ledger is not blockchain-based.

Probably for the same reason people put other sensitive stuff in mystery software: if it’s not physically visible the threat doesn’t seem real to them. Obviously, that’s dumb, but you did directly ask.

There’s a lot of overhead involved in making it untraceable like that, and it’s not clear how much of it can be achieved using postquantum algorithms. Ripple is also nice in that it doesn’t bother with a blockchain at all.

Yeah, it’s a slight exaggeration. OP also works totally remote, though, so it would be a very strong guess.

Batteries have gotten pretty good too, and you can definitely get inverters.

Yup. I’d probably be tearing out couches to make space for a drawer-type machine or two. The washer-dryer can open to outdoors if needed, and I’ve pretty much figured out how to make that work on one model I’ve looked at.

Ripple is also nice, if you want to go the non-anonymous route.

Mali is a Saharan country with low population, spotty, super expensive internet and unreliable power; I’d be surprised if the machines are literally there. And anyway, Dessalines has never mentioned being from a Malian background, but he does identify as ML.

The latter, I think. At least in rural towns in my jurisdiction, if you can prove you’re a resident, you get assigned a box. There’s definitely communal boxes in the middle of nowhere for people, although I’m not sure which office you go to to get set up.

I’d consider getting a really cheap, small chunk of rural land and boondocking there sometimes (so nobody can claim it’s not actually a residence of yours).

This is Lemmy, they didn’t even really have to ask.

As long as it’s one of the actually efficient cryptos.

If I ever go that route, you bet I’m getting a dishwasher put in at the very least. I know my limits, haha.

As the internet should be.

There’s a list on GitHub of instances by most federation. It’s where I found mine.