Maybe I shouldn't have been, I was surprised that the seminar industry is that up-to-date. I remember when they had seminars for things like pay phones, arcade games, and "non-profit vending machines" (vending machines where a cut of the profits are pledged to support particular non-profit organizations).
If an artist chooses either path to help support them, that's up to them.
As for the #cryptocurrency angle, the thing I favor isn't increasing prices. I favor them as a tool to dislodge crooked bankers' grip from our throats. So not being against cryptocurrencies means I don't hold that against NFTs.
> According to Newegg’s senior brand manager Andrew Choi, the integration of Litecoin is about making the customer experience more flexible and convenient.
> "Delivering a better online shopping experience isn’t only about price and selection – it’s also important to let people shop however they want, and that extends to offering flexible payment options."
> Newegg has been using BitPay to accept Bitcoin (BTC) since 2014 and Dogecoin (DOGE) since early this year.
> Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has hailed the London hard fork a success adding that it has given him more confidence over the upcoming merge to the Eth 2.0 chain.
> Speaking to Bloomberg News from Singapore, Buterin said that EIP-1559 is “definitely the most important part of London.” The upgrade, which went live around 15 hours ago, has tweaked the fee generation mechanism resulting in a portion of the fees being burnt.
It looks like the change from #PoW (proof-of-work) to #PoS (proof-of-stake) is proceeding well, though it is taking longer than originally expected. I knew a guy three years ago who tried to sell me his #Ethereum #cryptocurrency mining rig because he was convinced that the PoS switch would happen rapidly.
Basically, he was stealing from the government (and therefore the people) of Australia in order to enrich himself. I don't know what penalty Australia would have levied for a comparable misuse of government resources that earned a comparable amount of fiat currency. I think that #cryptocurrency tends to shut people's minds off and they respond by reflex. He's probably lucky they didn't behead him or something.
I don't know whether the "London" upgrade is considered a major upgrade or a point release. I do know that the "OpenEthereum" client will be deprecated once London happens. London follows April's "Berlin" release.
In some ways, both of them have some resemblance to “the Hawala system”:{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala} … except that by buddying up with the banks, Ripple the #XRP #cryptocurrency promoter has to comply with government KYC and money laundering rules and rules against organized crime.
I’d say Hawalas, being often part-timers whose main business is something else, probably don’t have the time or resources to devote to compliance. (It isn’t enough not to allow criminals to transfer money; they also need to document their systems and certify their compliance.)
What is the relationship between the two forms of Ripple? Is the Ripple #XRP #cryptocurrency the same Ripple that is referenced in https://villages.io/ documents?
It seems that @jeffcliff@shitposter.club believes they are the same #Ripple … or at least that they derive from a common ancestor. I don’t know, though. By the time I first heard of Ripple, they were the cryptocurrency that was trying to buddy up to the big banks. (And now, their big thing is international payments … including through banks and other intermediaries.)
Now, that risk is true for every commercial bank as well, (which is why the FDIC exists) for a company that depends on the peace of mind that 'we have $1 in the bank for each USDT token' gives, that could easily be enough to trigger a run.
Jeff Cliff ( @jeffcliff@shitposter.club ) often refers to Villages Hours. It seems like a time banking system, but he just now said it is also #cryptocurrency ( Ripple / XRP ) in some form.