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C01n_sh1LL

American universities with top-flight computer science programs tend to release software, and that software needs licensing. So that's why things like the MIT license and the BSD license exist. For more background info, type "MIT license" into a web search engine. I use Blue Wallet personally. It's generally considered fine.

fverdeja

To any developer who says that, here are some dun answers that will, of course, not offend them: - Your favourite language is just dumbed down Assembly - High level programming languages are just inefficient libraries - Hexadecimal is just hipster's binary - Since Github chains hash to verify changes, it's centralized just a blockchain - Since BSD can run Linux binaries, macOS is basically a Linux distro - A desktop environment is just a WM (window manager) with panels and applets

solomonsatoshi

Again you misrepresent what I have said and you repeatedly make assertions without providing any reasoned basis for them. You sound a lot like someone who is essentially a bully, pushing a viewpoint but it is a viewpoint you are not capable of giving a credible and fact based and reasoned argument so instead you resort to belittling and shooting the messenger and misrepresenting the messenger. If you are proposing people invest the time and effort to learn how to use open sourced BSD OS variants then how widely used they are is relevant. It is irrelevant that corporates have used BSD as the basis for creating their own closed source platforms for specific hardware which people may unwittingly use. Linux in the range of variants gives people choice without being corporate captured. Clearly BSD does not provide as much utility for most people as exploring and learning how to use Linux.

C01n_sh1LL

Hey man, I recognize I was a little insensitive with my wording, so I'm sorry for that. I'm not trying to belittle you, just trying to dispel some poor advice you were offering. I didn't answer your post point by point because I was on mobile, and that makes it a real pain to refer back to an earlier post while writing reply. But just to satisfy you, I'll give you a point by point response below: > Windows is subservient to the surveillance state. > > It is riddled with back doors and viruses. What makes you think the major Linux distributions are any less backdoored? Linux certainly has plenty of malware. Your use of the word "viruses" outs you as someone without a strong security background, because viruses are not the main threat in the malware landscape, and have not been for at least 20-25 years. Network-enabled trojans and worms are more typical threats nowadays. And you know what? There's plenty of those on Linux. > Are they free, open source and non proprietary? The various free BSD distros are, it should come as no surprise, released under the BSD license. The major difference between the BSD license and GPL, is that BSD licensed code can be copied, modified, and distributed without releasing source code changes. This is why companies like Sony and Nintendo use FreeBSD forks as OS's for their games consoles. It's also the reason Apple used a fork of the FreeBSD userland as the basis for MacOS X, and later for iPhoneOS/iOS. > How many people have even heard of them? I don't know and it doesn't really matter. A sizeable chunk of the world's population are using variants of these OS's, whether they realize it or not. > Most people are at least familar with Linux. Are they really? How many people know that Linux is not an operating system? You've recommended it in this thread as if it is a specific operating system, but it's not. "Linux" encompasses many distributions. Some are more secure than others. People should use whichever OS they understand well enough to secure from their most realistic threat model. I will maintain that advising a bunch of absolute linux noobs to run their hot wallets on network-connected Linux computers simply isn't great advice. I am saying this as somebody who works with Linux malware on a daily basis. Ignore my opinion at your own peril, lol.

po00on

MacOS is largely BSD based and can be secured (at the level of the OS & local DNS) if you know what you're doing. Simply adopting linux doesn't absolve you of the need to secure the machine, as the following example makes clear: [https://www.zdnet.com/article/free-software-father-declared-ubuntu-linux-to-contain-spyware/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/free-software-father-declared-ubuntu-linux-to-contain-spyware/) The list of Linux CVE's is as long as your arm. Not to mention comprimised open-source repositories, and back-doored PC hardware... ​ Point being: there is no silver bullet. One should get to know their preferred operating system, and learn how to secure it properly. One of the advantages of using dedicated hardware (eg hardware wallets) is that the security burden is shifted away from the host machine, to minimised, battle tested hardware.

igadjeed

> I wouldn't think many guides would suggest that Most of the guides assume there's already a user account, because standard Linux setup advises to login as root, create one user account, logout of root Some of the guides advise setting up a "bitcoin " user account, with a home directory and no login permission. I never bother, but it's more secure than running from a regular user account which does other stuff The "file not found" error is sometimes hard. A Perl script might have a *#!/opt/bin/perl* from BSD standards, and Perl is at */usr/bin/perl* on Linux. That causes "file not found" for the */opt/bin/* directory. In this case the executable is an ELF binary, a compiled executable. Sometimes these get "file not found" if a common shared library (like libc) can't be dynamically loaded The bitcoin core debug.log might name the missing file. But I suspect the missing file is the */home/root* directory, because root's home directory is */root*. If core can't find the user's home directory, it can't write a debug log there Or, it could be something completely different

sts10

Ah, I've learned from BIP-2 [that individual BIPS can be and are licensed under different licenses](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0002.mediawiki#bip-licensing). [Recommended licenses](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0002.mediawiki#recommended-licenses) include: * BSD-2-Clause: [OSI-approved BSD 2-clause license](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause) * BSD-3-Clause: [OSI-approved BSD 3-clause license](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause) * CC0-1.0: [Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) * GNU-All-Permissive: [GNU All-Permissive License](http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Other-Files.html) Interesting there are also ["Not recommended, but acceptable licenses,"](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0002.mediawiki#not-recommended-but-acceptable-licenses) implying that BIP authors have some leeway in choosing how their work is licensed. Sadly, BIP-39 appears to be one of the BIPS that does NOT (currently) specify a license. Bummer! Re: u/kap89's comment, I did see that [the reference implementation](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic) is MIT-licensed, which does seem like a good sign?

imihevc

I don't incest n shitcoins. Most of my investment is BTC and ETH. But compare BTC priče in the last few months. BTC/BSD - 3.22% (last 7 days), - 6.56% (last 30 days), 1.52% (last 90 days). Sorry, that's bad. My investment fund gives me 5.75% for the last 90 days Better than BTC. At the same time, I feel that my money is more secure than in BTC. Much less stress.

C01n_sh1LL

I really wanted OP's answer. I've used Linux since the 90's. You don't have to sell it to me. None of the things you mention could reasonably be described as "revolutionary." I could almost give you a pass for citing open source (although I don't agree with your claim about trust), except BSD did it first and a full decade and a half sooner.

MoneroArbo

well yeah, the BSD license makes it very easy to take without giving back for better and worse

MoneroArbo

So it doesn't use BSD, it just uses BSD thanks for clearing that up

clue5tick

iOS is just commercialized BSD. If one hundredth as much money and resources had gone into free, open source software, we wouldn't be having this problem.

CartographerWorth649

So many... specially after the CZ / Binance FUD! I am taking the advantage to buy the dip on LINK and DIA already to lower my entry into these crucial projects for the DeFi space as we know it: Oracles. Also have eyes on BAND too. If the FUD intensifies, BNB should be the token to suffer the most, but I don't believe the BSD chain is anyhow in danger, so big dips might turn into an HUGE short/mid term swing trade!

Opening_Creme2443

Keep in mind that FreeBSD installs without any graphical environment. You have to install and configure everything manually if you want GUI. There are some GUI variations like GhostBSD and MidnightBSD but I haven’t tried. In other side installing it manually isn’t hard, specially with some good tutorial. FreeBSD official handbook could be quite hard to follow, as sometimes I think is not consequential. For example: about own kernel compiling is written I chapter 9, quite fast, but if you want to do it properly you should be also familiar with chapter 25 about updating and upgrading. Funny heh? And you should read fucking MANUALS hehe. This is not Windows where bill gates doing everything for you. Here’s link for nice blog about BSD systems: https://vermaden.wordpress.com

Amber_Sam

Give it a time. How is BSD better than Linux distros?

Opening_Creme2443

Maybe I will try, just for fun, but don’t know can I trust my poor memory. Really a lot of things to make and do as everyday stuff as right now I am trying to master bitcoin as a whole as actually month ago ran my own bitcoin node and secondly trying to master BSD systems as want to go away from Linux.

fverdeja

Same and TCP/IP is not the reason internet apps are simple to use right now. They point is not "Bitcoin is simple to use, use Bitcoin", it's "The too complicated thing to use and understand for it to ever become money can be used as easily as any other thing". Ease of use is not the only reason to use something, if that were the case most internet servers would be running on Windows and not Linux or BSD.

Interweb_Stranger

... subject to the conditions that the copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included on the back of the t-shirts or coffee mug. On a more serious note, no you can't do whatever you want with open source code. It's really just what the license says you can do. The MIT license doesn't mention it but variations like X11 or for example BSD would not allow promotion using the author's name: > The name of the <copyright holder> may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

bbtto22

BSD would be so good

Zeric79

Or BSD. How are Singapore's rules regarding crypto?

TDawgF

Pretty sure Android is based on Linux which makes it one of the most (if not the most) widely used OSs in the world. Linux dominates the server / datacenter world. Apple is based on BSD. Pretty sure Linux has achieve mass adoption even if you don't see it on workstations that often.

JaviLM

macOS derives from BSD, not from Linux. They aren't even in the same branch.

d-resistance

I would probably compare bitcoin to the Unix/BSD/OpenBSD systems. Because they both focus on security and code correctness

BitShopperDotCom

You're asking the wrong questions and framing BTC in a way it should not be. 1. Bitcoin is doing just fine globally and will continue to do so through macro economic challenges and expansions. Bitcoin is the lifeblood of Internet commerce. 2. All of the frauds and scams the media likes to attribute to crypto existed long before Satoshi Nakamoto wrote his white paper. In fact if you Google 'bank scams and fines' you will see that the biggest frauds and scams were perpetrated by the likes of JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, etc without the use of a single Bitcoin or other crypto. Bitcoin does not rely on institutional participation. Bitcoin's growth is due to the individual not the institution. 3. 'Never before has so much been lost by so many' is pure horse doo doo. The Bitcoin market cap is around $324 Billion. The U.S. and EU sanctions against Russia have cost the global economy $30 TRILLION. Elon Musk alone has lost $100 Billion in 2022. All things considered Bitcoin is doing fantastic. The entire U.S. economy, the world's largest could collapse yet Bitcoin would still be standing. 4. Bitcoin is infinitely more energy efficient than the global financial system. More energy is used by bank and financial employees driving their SUVs to work globally than is used by the Bitcoin Blockchain and ecosystem. Bitcoin is resilient and agile. 5. You're obviously a subscriber to the #fakenews media narrative about Bitcoin. You don't bring new people to the crypto space, you bring the crypto space to the people. You do this by making the tech behind crypto transparent and invisible. If you ask the average person what crypto is they will either look at you with a clueless stare like a deer caught in the headlights, or they will regurgitate the false narrative of the media that is is used for dealing drugs or money laundering. To bring Bitcoin to the masses it needs to be user friendly and invisible, the interface between users of Bitcoin needs to shield the average person from the technology behind Bitcoin. For example Apple put their gui on top of BSD Linux. Apple didn't tell people hey learn Linux, they just said click here. Most apple users don't even realize that they are running a Linux machine.

comfortably_smug

All these BSD’s are investing trillions of dollars in Bitcoin right now. Projected 10,000 gain and cash in. Once this happens Bitcoin is going to dip below 10,000, even as low as high 6k. I’m ballparking that to be around mid April

gloverall

Nah iOS is BSD UNIX-derived, not Linux.

mhsx

You’re wrong. First - iOS is not based on Linux, it’s based on something closer to BSD, but in reality it’s pretty much it’s own thing. Android is running the Linux kernel. Since 2000 or so, Linux started replacing Unix (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, SCO). Today, no one buys new Unix installs. There are Unix systems out there, just as there are still mainframes running COBOL jobs written in the 50’s and 60’s. But the number of Linux servers has been growing every day for the last 20 years, and the number of Unix systems has been shrinking every day for the last 20 years. At this point Unix is a small fraction of servers.

Gravel_Sandwich

Maybe consider something non-windows, Linux or BSD maybe? Not saying you still don't need to protect yourself, but they are both a good start.

isthatrhetorical

Y'all see what's going on with Nano? NF has decided to give the software itself to other entities under the name "Trustable", the Nano network is seemingly worthless. Being under a BSD license means that anyone that uses the software doesn't have to contribute anything upstream if they don't want to. Maybe I'm not understanding the whole situation atm, but ***holy fuck*** I laugh very hard.

nullama

Video is not that helpful tbh Here's a quote from Satoshi himself that is more helpful: > If the only library is closed source, then there's a project to make an open source one. > > If the only library is GPL, then there's a project to make a non-GPL one. > > If the best library is MIT, Boost, new-BSD or public domain, then we can stop re-writing it. > > I don't question that GPL is a good license for operating systems, especially since non-GPL code is allowed to interface with the OS. For smaller projects, I think the fear of a closed-source takeover is overdone. So basically Satoshi decided to make Bitcoin as free as possible, so that no one had to re write anything. Bitcoin is as free as you can get in software. Enjoy!

Areshian

There was one suit about stolen code. Or more explicitly, about a contractor that worked for both that may have reused code, or something like that, not really the code for the windows UI. Which makes sense, the hardest part for GUI was the ideas, not the actual implementation of the code. Microsoft did copy code I think from BSD (which Apple also used later to base osx on) for the network stack. That is the reason why you have `c:\windows\system32\driver\etc\hosts`, with the same functionality as `/etc/hosts` in unix systems. I suspect there is probably nothing left of that network stack in modern windows, but the hosts file is now there for compatibility.

disposable_account01

Right but we’re not talking about invention, we’re talking about what they’ve done with the tech. Apple didn’t invent macOS or iOS. Both are BSD-based. They didn’t invent mp3 players, smartphones, tablets, laptops, or desktop computers. All existed before they made one. And so on… You don’t have to *invent* something to be good at it.

Sixhaunt

I tossed $10 in at 0.009 as a little lottery ticket since UST looked like there may have been a chance to re-peg soon at that time. I also threw another $10 at 0.0006 since it was reaching the limit of what binance would let you trade with the decimal places and I figured it was worth a last shot, especially since the total $20 I put in came from part of a $4 short position I made profit on from LUNA in futures. I came out ahead still, but the $20 was wasted since UST crashed to $0.1 and they removed all the LUNA/USDT pairings and opened up ones with BSD giving it more decimal places to fall from which is has been. That's the end of my gambling with LUNA and I'm quitting while I'm ahead. I should have just kept a short on luna on futures til it reaches the limit but it's at ...054 and can only go to 0.001 before futures has to do something again and I expect it's late to make too much on it before they just delist

Independent-Snow-129

In bitcoin, you connect to which ever version of the software you like to. It is backward compatible. I'm not a high level programmer/reviewer but I still try to review on my own the BIP's and see If there's anything alarming. Here's the alarming/questionable aspects : \-Not backward compatible \-spend script unavailable \- Could remove the p2p aspect \-RIPEMD160 removed ( relying only on sha256) \- securities risk \-BSD License clause-3 ( Bitcoin white paper has the MIT License) (These two licenses are very similar, with the key exception of the BSD 3’s non-endorsement clause, which prohibits promotion of any derived work using the name of the license or its authors. In addition, the language of the MIT License is simpler and shorter).

MrRGnome

>except for mining and block validation". = not fully functional without upgrade. If most nodes upgrade to bip119, what does the switch in block validation, mining and the copyright 3-clause BSD license change to the network if natively most of the hashrate and nodes run on it ?\* >To review this bip correctly , you have to master Taproot and Schnorr signature , understand in depth the political risk, etc. How many dev/user have the knowledge/time to do this in a one year time frame ? Where would be the line in the risk-----------reward in your opinion ? The black is over 50% of your comment, and I responded to much of it including the mis-assertions you need to understand schnorr and taproot, and by suggesting it was based on the false assumption that this happened quickly and you haven't had years to review it. Two years and 4 months, actually. The issue IMO hasn't been the timeline, it's been 1) the activation method and 2) the lack of consensus actor engagement 3-sorta) the lack of maturation of competing implementations. I'm not a bitcoin dev, but I am a user who reviews the dev list and repo activity and keeps up with the weekly optech newsletters. But how many users do that? Almost all the campaigning for this BIP has not been reaching the average user. That doesn't mean that it happened suddenly or that there hasn't been time. Even this past christmas jeremy did his [bitcoin advent calendar series](https://rubin.io/advent21/) which I thought was useful and good, but how many people caught it? No one is avoiding participating in discussion. There are about 5 questions and as many assumptions crammed into your bolded text and I've given you several answers and corrected what assumptions

Independent-Snow-129

Actually , I tend to believe it is the perfect thread to ask questions about bip's and especially bip 119 . Here's some more focus questions . *from bip119* " *so existing software will be fully functional without upgrade* ***except*** *for* ***mining and block validation***". = **not fully functional without upgrade.** If most nodes upgrade to bip119, what does the switch in block validation, mining and the copyright 3-clause BSD license change to the network if natively most of the hashrate and nodes run on it. **To review this bip correctly , you have to master Taproot and Schnorr signature , understand in depth the political risk, etc. How many dev/user have the knowledge/time to do this in a one year time frame ? Where would be the line in the risk-----------reward in your opinion ?** Here's my opinion . For a casual user like me I would need 2.1 year at least to understand in depth this bip and it's risk/reward. For my financial sovereignty I find it important for hardcore dev to give time to the less knowledgeable amongst us.

the_hunger_gainz

You had a gui? We just compiled and ran it on Linux or BSD at the time.

Dilokilo

EUR/BSD in top 10 gainers on Binance lol

freistil90

If I have a POS system that accepts Visa and Mastercard but not Strike, can you pay me? No. If I have a Bitcoin wallet and you have ETH, can you pay me? No. It’s just another layer. If I don’t accept your layer, then the transaction doesn’t happen, even if both of us want the transaction to happen. Plus, again, it’s not more or less closed than Visa or Mastercard. It’s a plain old licensing thing. You can’t go to Aldi or wherever and demand to pay with Strike - they can accept it, if their POS providers accept it, which is in the end the same situation as you would be in with Mastercard. If they accept it, you can use it, if not, you’re out of luck. It wasn’t McD flocking to Strike to ask to be added, it was Strike making a deal with Shopify, an existing licensed ecosystem that now adds Strike as a payment API. They can and also do accept credit card processing APIs just as well - they are no more or less free than those. Strike is a licensed company, there is… not really anything more open about that. Or does that license hold a BSD or MIT licence? No. You know what’s completely open? Even open source? Bitcoin. Does that mean you can pay everywhere with it? No.

slantview

MacOS is not a skin on “Unix”, first off, it’s UNIX when referring to the trademarked name which refers to AT&T Unix, which MacOS is certainly not derived from, and secondly just because something was derived from something else, does not make it the same thing. MacOS is based on NeXTSTEP which has some userland tools derived from BSD. It was UNIX certified, but that was in the 90’s and it has most certainly diverged greatly over the last 30 years and no longer resembles anything close to what it started as, and absolutely is not a “skin on UNIX”.

nullama

It's probably not very critical here, but every time you release software(anything) to anyone, it needs to have a licence, which determines what people can and can't do with it. For example, can I buy it and then sell it cheaper on my website? Can I improve it and sell it? Can I improve and give it away for free at my site? Do I have to share my improvements with the rest of the world? And so on. A licence answer all these questions. If you're not sure, and want this to be permissive, you could use the [BSD](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/bsd/), or the [MIT](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/) licences.

nullama

I prefer getting the original projects and using them directly instead of a pre-packaged solution like Umbrel or Citadel. That way you can have a fully open source stack. For example: - [Bitcoin Core](https://github.com/bitcoin-core): The Bitcoin node, configured to run as a server. This is your private Bitcoin node that you will connect to. **MIT License** - [c-lightning](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/): a lightweight C implementation of the Lightning Network. This connects to Bitcoin Core. **BSD-MIT License** - [C-Lightning-REST](https://github.com/Ride-The-Lightning/c-lightning-REST): A rest API interface for c-lightning. **MIT License** - [Ride-The-Lightning](https://github.com/Ride-The-Lightning/RTL): RTL is an awesome web based interface for managing your node. **MIT License** And there it is. Fully open source lightning node with a great web interface.

nullama

> Umbrel is not open source as it is under a non-commercial license, which makes it hot garbage. Correct, they don't allow selling software based on their license. You don't need to use them though, you can have a fully open source stack with other software, for example: You can have a fully open source lightning node with the core projects. For example: - [Bitcoin Core](https://github.com/bitcoin-core): The Bitcoin node, configured to run as a server. This is your private Bitcoin node that you will connect to. Setup a RPC user and password for it. **MIT License** - [c-lightning](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/): a lightweight C implementation of the Lightning Network. If you're running this on a different machine than the Bitcoin Core one, then you need to create an SSH tunnel. It won't work otherwise. **BSD-MIT License** - [C-Lightning-REST](https://github.com/Ride-The-Lightning/c-lightning-REST): A rest API interface for c-lightning. **MIT License** - [Ride-The-Lightning](https://github.com/Ride-The-Lightning/RTL): RTL is an awesome web based interface for managing your node. **MIT License** And there it is. Fully open source lightning node with a great web interface.

whitslack

>A lot of it reminds me of how the infrastructure for the internet was build in terms of layered protocols, but because this about money, people tend to get a lot more tribal. Also, the Internet had a *much* slower start than Bitcoin. It was really only extremely technically able people building the Internet for the first couple of decades of its existence. That meant that good ideas were widely recognized as good, and bad ideas were widely recognized as bad. Sure, there was still tribalism like AT&T Unix vs BSD, but they still worked together at the network protocol level instead of each trying to build their own Internet to the exclusion of the other.

DoYouEvenMonad

Well, pretty much any security critical IT infrastructure uses open source OS's like Linux or BSD in the backend. It's called Kerchhoff's principle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aHkqB2-46k&t=2430s It's not that you can't do security through obscurity, but we've had several decades of experience that show that open source protocols are more secure.

Father_Wolfgang

The MIT, BSD, and ISC licenses are “permissive licenses”. They are extremely short and essentially say “do whatever you want with this, just don’t sue me.” The Apache license says “do whatever you want with this, just don’t sue me” but does so with many more words, which lawyers like because it adds specificity. It also contains a patent license and retaliation clause which is designed to prevent patents (including patent trolls) from encumbering the software project. Source: https://www.exygy.com/blog/which-license-should-i-use-mit-vs-apache-vs-gpl

arcalus

Well Winblows is not the standard, that is for sure. If you aren’t using Linux or BSD (Mac) you aren’t very concerned about privacy.

grndslm

1. Ethereum is like the Windows of the crypto world, but it too, will be surpassed by another network when it comes to developers, dapps, smart contracts, etc., because Ethereum 2.0 will \*not\* come to fruition in time. Bitcoin is the equivalent of the BSD systems, which, you should already know is what the banking system uses, because it's pretty much the most secure OS with the highest uptime. THAT is what Bitcoin is and will always be. 99% of the past year, any transaction could've made it in on the very next block for $5. And 90% of transactions could've made it on the very next block for like $2. Why fix what isn't broke? 2. Between Taproot and Lightning, the majority of smart contract features that people are ACTUALLY using elsewhere are already baked into Bitcoin now. I'm sure there's a ton of off the wall examples that Bitcoin can't accomplish, but for what BTC actually does and as efficient as it is for being "inefficient", it's really rather magical, IMHO. 3. I'm not sure what this has to do with money. Bitcoin is money. The best MONEY ever created. And I'm sure you've heard the analogy that there will be countless apps and protocols built AROUND Bitcoin, just as countless protocols have been built around TCP/IP. There's your inevitable truth for the day. 4. Uhh.... the option to make on chain transactions is not out of your reach. Good luck doing that with Ethereum, tho!!! hahahaha 5. The Store of Value argument is based upon what you've probably heard Saylor call "First Principles". It is the BEST DESIGN. Period. It was hard coded, correctly, on Day 1, in a way that makes sense. Not a backwards ass design just to burn a pre-mined currency. Bitcoin really is the only honest and equitable money that man has ever known. Even gold can be counterfeited. Not saying Ethereum can be counterfeited, but its distribution sure wasn't fair, and it definitely ain't usable as MONEY. 6. The PoW vs PoS debate goes back to the matter of First Principles. Having a coin that is tethered to energy guarantees honest and equitable production, distribution, etc. Miners cannot hoard it forever, at least not to the degree that Vitalik will be able to hoard his ThinAir Coins. If you think PoS isn't a centralized coin, then you better do some more research. The development of newer computer components, more efficient energy grids, and reneweable energy tech will merely be a SIDE-EFFECT of the hardest, most honest money the world has ever known. Praise be to Satoshi -- the hero we needed, but none of us deserved.

robotpirateninja

Android and IOS are both fron the same family of OS'es. Android being *literally* Linux and IOS based on a BSD kernel.

joshtheflu

According to Manning’s testimony what you’re saying isn’t the case. All quotes from your link. Have you even read it yourself? *1. Manning was aware of Wikileaks years prior to making the disclosures* “Initially I simply observed the IRC conversations. I wanted to know how the organization was structured, and how they obtained their data. The conversations I viewed were usually technical in nature but sometimes switched to a lively debate on issue the particular individual may have felt strongly about. Over a period of time I became more involved in these discussions especially when conversations turned to geopolitical events and information technology topics, such as networking and encryption methods. Based on these observations, I would describe the WL organization as almost academic in nature. In addition to the WLO conversations, I participated in numerous other IRC channels acros at least three different networks. The other IRC channels I participated in normally dealt with technical topics including with Linux and Berkley Secure Distribution BSD operating systems or OSs, networking, encryption algorithms and techniques and other more political topics, such as politics and [missed word].” *2. Manning made the decision to whistle blow prior to any contact with Wikileaks, proven by conversation with Aunt and boyfriend prior to wiki leaks contact.* “I began mid-tour leave on 23 January 2010, flying from Atlanta, Georgia to Reagan National Airport in Virginia. I arrived at the home of my aunt, Debra M. Van Alstyne, in Potomac, Maryland and quickly got into contact with my then boyfriend, Tyler R. Watkins. Tyler, then a student at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and I made plans for me to visit him him Boston, Massachusetts [missed word]. I was excited to see Tyler and planned on talking to Tyler about where our relationship was going and about my time in Iraq. However, when I arrived in the Boston area Tyler and I seemed to become distant. He did not seem very excited about my return from Iraq. I tried talking to him about our relationship but he refused to make any plans. I also tried to raising the topic of releasing the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A SigAct tables to the public. I asked Tyler hypothetical questions about what he would do if he had documents that he thought the public needed access to. Tyler really didn't have a specific answer for me. He tried to answer the questions and be supportive, but seemed confused by the question in this context. I then tried to be more specific, but he asked too many questions. Rather than try to explain my dilemma, I decided to just drop the conversation. After a few days in Waltham, I began to feel really bad. I was over staying my welcome, and I returned to Maryland. I spent the remainder of my time on leave in the Washington, DC area.” “At my aunt's house I debated what I should do with the SigActs – in particular whether I should hold on to them – or expose them through a press agency. At this point I decided that it made sense to try to expose the SigAct tables to an American newspaper. I first called my local news paper, The Washington Post, and spoke with a woman saying that she was a reporter. I asked her if the Washington Post would be interested in receiving information that would have enormous value to the American public.” *3. Manning shopped around mainstream news organizations before deciding to leak to Wiki leaks* I then decided to contact [missed word] the most popular newspaper, The New York Times. I called the public editor number on The New York Times website. The phone rang and was answered by a machine. I went through the menu to the section for news tips. I was routed to an answering machine. I left a message stating I had access to information about Iraq and Afghanistan that I believed was very important. However, despite leaving my Skype phone number and personal email address, I never received a reply from The New York Times. I also briefly considered dropping into the office for the Political Commentary blog, Politico, however the weather conditions during my leave hampered my efforts to travel. After these failed efforts I had ultimately decided to submit the materials to the WLO. I was not sure if the WLO would actually publish these SigAct tables [missed a few words]. I was concerned that they might not be noticed by the American media. However, based upon what I read about the WLO through my research described above, this seemed to be the best medium for publishing this information to the world within my reach. *4. Your statement is not accurate according to Manning’s testimony. Manning initiated contact with individuals she was already aware of were in the Wikileaks organization in order to leak information, clearly wasn’t being taken advantage of. Manning didn’t even know who was on the other end of the chat, just assumed[wishfully] that it was Assange or another person at the top of the organization. >Assange was in daily contact with Manning cultivated a friendship and took advantage of that * “Almost immediately after submitting the aerial weapons team video and rules of engagement documents I notified the individuals in the WLO IRC to expect an important submission. I received a response from an individual going by the handle of "Ox" - at first our conversations were general in nature, but over time as our conversations progressed, I accessed this individual to be an important part of the WLO. Due to the strict adherence of anonymity by the WLO, we never exchanged identifying information. However, I believe the individual was likely Mr. Julian Assange [he pronounced it with three syllables], Mr. Daniel Schmidt, or a proxy representative of Mr. Assange and Schmidt. As the communications transfered from IRC to the Jabber client, I gave "Ox" and later "pressassociation" the name of Nathaniel Frank in my address book, after the author of a book I read in 2009. Advertisement After a period of time, I developed what I felt was a friendly relationship with Nathaniel. Our mutual interest in information technology and politics made our conversations enjoyable. We engaged in conversation often. Sometimes as long as an hour or more. I often looked forward to my conversations with Nathaniel after work. The anonymity that was provided by TOR and the Jabber client and the WLO's policy allowed me to feel I could just be myself, free of the concerns of social labeling and perceptions that are often placed upon me in real life. In real life, I lacked a closed friendship with the people I worked with in my section, the S2 section. In my section, the S2 section supported battalions and the 2nd Brigade Combat Team as a whole. For instance, I lacked close ties with my roommate to his discomfort regarding my perceived sexual orientation. Over the next few months, I stayed in frequent contact with Nathaniel. We conversed on nearly a daily basis and I felt that we were developing a friendship. Conversations covered many topics and I enjoyed the ability to talk about pretty much everything, and not just the publications that the WLO was working on. In retrospect that these dynamics were artificial and were valued more by myself than Nathaniel. For me these conversations represented an opportunity to escape from the immense pressures and anxiety that I experienced and built up through out the deployment. It seems that as I tried harder to fit in at work, the more I seemed to alienate my peers and lose respect, trust, and support I needed.” 5. *You are actually a bootlicker* Even the testimony that you provide as evidence for your claim shows Assange committed espionage contradicts you. Maybe ***actually*** try reading things before making conclusions.

cacuban123

Thanks for the class! You are a BSD, my friend!

king_over_the_water

It’s definitely a possibility - if Binance goes down, how do you redeem BSD for cash? Either Bloomberg or Fortune had an article a month or so ago exposing how Tether is just a house of cards. There’s a reason that the US Treasury is focused on the regulating stablecoins because of the potential systemic threat they pose due to the massive amount of money involved, the interconnections between the stable coins and various exchanges, and that fact that no one really knows where all the money goes once stable coins are minted.

ar0ra1

I only use Linux on my servers. That’s where they shine the best. Windows for work (provided by them). Mac for personal. Really love the window management on Mac. But yes, sometimes BSD is just too restrictive. Miss the terminal on Mac. But then it is designed for average person

arcalus

I use Linux primarily. I also have a Mac, but I often run into things that are slightly different or not available in BSD :(

EddieFrmDaBlockchain

Hey! Get out of here with that nonsense. Never on a windows device! Maybe Apple, BSD, or Linux. Bill Gates would never be involved in a product that could be used illegally!

bawdyanarchist

Techincally it's possible to retain some level of anonymity/privacy. But it always comes with difficulty and many strings attached. Connect to Tor. Run your own node. Acquire BTC anonymously. Always use Whirlpool for mixing (and not the compromised Wasabi). Make sure that after a mix, you don't make any transactions which might accidentally dox your other outputs in the same wallet. Having flip flopped in/out of BTC and Monero, there were these constant problems I had with trying to keep my outputs sanitized. I was worried about deposting that BTC onto an exchange, since I had used Bisq, and perhaps maybe I received a tainted output. And I'm relatively computer savvy. Can operate Linux and BSD from the terminal. Run Qubes on a secured laptop. There's just no way that average users can possibly hope to use Bitcoin privately without accidentally messing things up, and ending up tracked by chain analysis. That's why Monero is so cool and critical. It makes this stuff easy. Even a newb using it will have a hard time really messing anything up.

EasyRider1975

Android, IOS Mac OS are nite Linux. Asked they are built from the ground up based on Unix mainly BSD code into these Various OSs that are Unix like. All very solid. I hated Macs prior to moving to a Unix based os. Microsoft is slowly implementing Unix capabilities in their Powershell. The entire server is running on Poweshell and the GUI is just a front end. Also many Unix commands work in poweshell. Azure is going to Run on Microsoft Linux. Yes you can download Microsoft Linux but it’s very limited to serve Azure cloud computing.

Retr_0astic

Apple is using a fork of BSD which is based on a UNIX fork, it's not decentralized, but it is impacted by Linux a lot, virtual desktops where copied by apple from XCFE for example.

Retr_0astic

Are you aware that almost every single server runs on Linux? Even your Android phone runs on Linux! If you own an iphone, it's based on something called BSD, which follows Unix philosophy! There will be banks, they're role will be severally diminished after crypto takes over. They'll probably be reduced to off ramps and on ramps.

ex_nihilo

Darwin is basically a BSD fork that barely resembles BSD at this point.

scrufdawg

BSD

NanoBoostBOOP

Linux isn't used on any Mac that I'm aware of unless the owned specifically installed it. MacOS is based on BSD.

Xolam

3$ ADA is almost a given now if at smart contracts we do see a migration towards it, like we saw to BSD earlier this year, I can see it go much much higher

swn999

I think Android is moving / fragmenting away from Linux, google is working on Fuscua, Samsung on Tizen, iOS was based on OS X which is BSD. Anyways the cloud and servers are what is relevant and Linux is widespread and doing a rock steady job.

SlothLair

Ironically the ones claiming it is all about age are the equivalent of the ones that cannot make change without a register or calculator. When the internet allowed me to connect with college professors and the academic community I started getting better recommendations of what books to read and what resources to use to fact check with. This was amazing for me as up until this point all I had were Florida educators. Based on that reading I asked in class why we ignored the vikings landing here and credited good old Chris with the discovery. I was told that it never happened hence why he was given credit. I then was sent to the principals office because I brought up the viking long boats they had discovered here and was told that the "teacher" would not allow lies to be repeated in her class. US based education for you. I went on to learn how the internet works, how operating systems worked, dived into FreeBSD and its "Amazing new Download and install your operating system with just 2 floppies." From there it was trying out different BSD based operating systems, then Linux and the wonderful world of Slackware! I had a lot of fun with slack and ran it for quite some time, until a six pack of beer and a custom kernel had a fight. I absolutely Recked my OS lol. With huge portions of the OS filesystem being wiped out I knew a reboot was a bad idea, I was still online with IRC though so I went ahead and grabbed a copy of Gentoo and prepped that for install. Decided to build my entire stack and compiler for a stage 1 install of Gentoo which I don't even think they do anymore. OMG the fun I had over years and years. Getting a game to run under an emulator in Linux at a higher graphics setting and better FPS on the exact same hardware .... well I was hooked! Flash forward a long time and I finally decided I would make this my job instead of my hobby. Scored the first support contract for a predictive dialer company (call center, outgoing) by talking to a friend of a friend and agreeing to stop by and take a look at their system running OS/2 Warp 4. Took about 3 mins to look at a couple stations, notice they had the same "ID" number which was a big no no on that OS. Changed them back and reboot, everything works. The current consultant I did not know had been working on this for 2 days. I explained to the owner the issue not knowing who was all in the room so I got to stand there as he offered me a contract and fired the guy working on it then. Finally leaving IT decades later I was at a point where I was consulting as a Senior DevOps engineer on some pretty large scale projects. I then found myself interviewing new comers to IT with their College Degree qualifications and found a lot of them considered me to be below them because I did not have that degree. It was honestly beginning to grind on my last nerve, these people taking this attitude when half of them could not describe the difference between a "Google Search and a DNS query." I quoted that because at a few places I worked that was an early question we used to see if we should just end the interview then and there. I can read code in pretty much every programming language I have encountered whether or not I am practiced in writing it. I have supported everything from MSDos 3.1, Solaris, BeOS, Gentoo, Free and Open BSD, and the various "Windows" systems in a professional capacity. I have met people that were 16 that could do the same and ones that were 20's or 30's or 40's that could not. If you think you can ascertain someones knowledge just by seeing how old or young they are you have a lot to learn.

AfterBurner9911

This is from the BabySnoopDoge ($BSD) page: "BabySnoopDoge will be the biggest charity-based memecoin for marijuana. The focus of the fight is to secure global legalization and decriminalization which will ensure a modern and safe future for marijuana enthusiasts. With reflective earnings, NGO partnerships and celebrity consumer endorsement, BabySnoopDoge will revolutionize the world of digital currencies and create a goal of maintaining liquidity and value for token holders." And you mean to tell us that tokens like this are *scams*?

Neutronst4r

The linux kernel has 28 Million lines of code and is doing fine. Every important server on earth either runs on Linux or BSD and they are both open source. Complexity is not a problem.

ykaludov1

Liquidated everything and put it all on BSD. This is the one!

masixx

I work on multiple platforms depending on the job. Linux, BSD, Windows. I'm quite familiar with all of them. The only OS i truly hate is MacOs. But I'm biased on this subject tbh.

plurBUDDHA

These are the reasons CKB chose RISC-V taken from here [https://medium.com/nervosnetwork/an-introduction-to-ckb-vm-9d95678a7757](https://medium.com/nervosnetwork/an-introduction-to-ckb-vm-9d95678a7757) RISC-V is an open-source RISC instruction set architecture (ISA) designed by professors of the University of California, Berkeley in 2010. The aim of RISC-V is to provide a common CPU ISA that enables the next generation of system architecture development for several decades without the burden of legacy architecture issues. RISC-V can meet implementation requirements ranging from small-sized microprocessors with low power consumption to high-performance data center (DC) processors in all scenarios. Compared with other CPU instruction sets, the RISC-V instruction set has the following advantages: * Openness: Both the core design and implementation of RISC-V are provided under a BSD license. All companies and agencies can utilize the RISC-V instruction set and create new hardware/software without restriction. * Simplicity: As a RISC instruction set, the 32-bit integer core instruction set of RISC-V has only 41 instructions. Adding support for 64-bit integers, the instruction set only has about 50 instructions. An x86 instruction set may have thousands of instructions, compared to this, the RISC-V instruction set is easily implemented and prevents bugs while providing the same functionality. * Modular mechanism: With a simplified core, RISC-V also provides a modular mechanism to provide more extended instruction sets. For example, the CKB might choose to implement the V extension defined in the RISC-V core to support vector computing or add extended instruction sets for 256-bit integer computing, providing the possibility of high-performance cryptographic algorithms. * Wide support: The RISC-V instruction set is supported by compilers such as GCC and LLVM. Rust and Go language implementations based on RISC-V are being developed. The VM implementation of CKB will use the widely implemented ELF format, CKB VM contracts can be developed using any language that can be compiled to RISC-V instructions. * Maturity: The RISC-V core instruction set has been finalized and frozen, all RISC-V implementations in the future need to be backward compatible. This removes the possibility of a CKB hard fork resulting from a VM instruction update. Additionally, the RISC-V instruction set has hardware implementations and has been verified in real-world application scenarios. RISC-V does not have the potential risks that may exist in other less-supported instruction sets. Even though other instruction sets may have some of the qualities listed above, the RISC-V instruction set is the only one that delivers all of them according to our evaluation. Based on this, we have chosen to implement CKB VM with the RISC-V instruction set and utilize the ELF format for smart contracts to ensure wide language support. In addition, we will add dynamic linking for CKB VM to ensure cell sharing. Even though the official CKB implementation will provide popular cryptographic primitives, we encourage the community to provide more optimized cryptographic algorithm implementations to reduce runtime overhead (CPU cycles). The topic of developer incentives to improve cryptographic primitives on CKB is interesting and has been frequently discussed among the CKB team. It is our hope that the CKB VM will develop and improve with the evolution of cryptography and community, without the need for hard forks to upgrade the protocol.

ksp_physics_guy

You think the simulation would run on windows? If that were the case during the Satoshi update it would have blue screened and shit the bed due to a shitty ass kernel. Clearly the simulation runs on BSD.

acontecivel

The only resemblance is that they’re both mostly POSIX compliant. Otherwise they’re completely different. Apple’s kernel is based on Mach and BSD.

oisphagetti

>the guide is for windows What about just using stuff that treats you like human? Linux? BSD? Even macOS?

Cantstandyuh

I'm not sure what areas Berkley is academically known for, but I know them from their BSD kernel so I can't wait to watch these!

vegarde

Most companies are for-profit companies. Lightning Network isn't built by "a" for-profit company. Some of the various implementations are maintained by for-profit-companies, the way most open source stuff is today. It's still open source - you can modify it, build on it, fork it. The license for Lightning Labs' LND is a pretty standard BSD-style license. I run such a node, and I haven't paid a cent to anyone for that privilege. I did pay with some minor contributions to the code at some point, and I do try to be a good community member and help others out. You, however, have read too much propaganda elsewhere.

Nonredneck

Philip0908: The “actual” price depends on what the trader is doing. That said, clean(ed) and correct(ed) market data is always 100% executed prices timestamped by exchange. Records of best bid and ask may also be available but are not price and are not usually used for backtesting models to historical market data. If the trader is buying only the best ask is the true price, if selling only the best bid matters, if both of course the spread is the true price. If a BSD tells someone a true price, they give it as “making a market” - eg they will buy your bag of coin for x, or they will sell you more of that same coin for x + y. For the really hardcore running ultra low latency bots and networks arbitraging exchanges, price is only what you can get to before someone else does. It’s funny to watch bitstamp dampen some market swings versus say Binance. Source : a thousand yard stare from too many years in market data

DashtheDBee

BSD is 79% mined by a single pool. It really needs more miners to protect against 51% before it can moon.

Glass-Wave-2503

For example my current reviewed coins. Maybe they have potential maybe not i'm not a profi: EXF BT XFI USDX BSD YFOX Have a look and tell me your thpughts about this. ! Thanks.

JamesWasilHasReddit

>Lmao literally any cybersecurity professional worth their salt knows a modern mobile device is more secure than the average PC or Mac. The fact that you don't immediately tells me you're full of shit. >Lmao literally any cybersecurity professional >worth their salt knows a modern mobile > device is more secure than the average PC > or Mac. They would be an absolute idiot, like you are, to think that a mobile device is more secure than the average PC. You clearly do not understand how they compromise you, and are designed to, even though I've spelled it out for you in terms that even a 1st grader or the guy on Slingblade could understand. You just want to pretend that devices you are apparently attached at the hip to are religious material to you that are safe, and the truth is that they are not, and never were. You can tell that go your "cybersecurity" lackies and take your "salt" with you that you think they are worth when you go,* because I've been around and was hacking important systems over bulletin boards before there even was an "internet" and you were ever on it, so I think I would know wtf I am talking about and it is you and then who are not 'worth their salt _to me_.* Before there was "IT" or the farce of "cybersecurity" you foolishly think exists by the title snd fanfare given to the ATTEMPT of it, you know nothing but need to educate yourself on Van Eck Phreaking (around since 1985) and later renamed to TEMPEST after the US government took an interest in it. Young boy, or whatever you are...I have helped to install the internet infrastructures and RFC outlines for their guidelines while your "cybersecurity" friends were in diapers and the "internet" as you know it today did not even exist. I HAVE WATCHED IT FORM AND PARTICIPATED IN THAT ENDEAVOR. How are you going to be such an ignorant and disrespectful little pile of crap to attack me for your own stupidity over things you don't know to pretend "cybersecurity" and the bullshit you've been force fed by the masses means anything? "Cybersecurity" is a LIE to keep you controlled and unaware of how they can spy on you and anyone with the right tools can compromise you. ESPECIALLY on a mobile device with so many intentional ways to do it FFS that *did not exist at the inception of the PC and to a great extent still don't!* I feel like I'm educating a 1st grader both with your infantile response and with your unawareness to basic things regarding this. >The fact that you don't immediately tells me >you're full of shit. No. I am full of truth. It's you who are full of shit, as is any idiot who claims to do "cybersecurity" and not understand these basic things. They should not have a job if they can't. >Show me a single iota of evidence that this is > happening on newer mobile devices to steal > users' encrypted information, like private > keys for a crypto wallet. Good god are you just a bad troll, are you 12 years old or less and know nothing, or are you really that stupid to not have seen or read about malicious apps stealing data and compromising bank accounts long before they did that with crypto? > You probably use a > hot wallet on your laptop, don't you? Lol No you mental cheesecake, I do not. I probably use cold storage and offline wallets like I advocated for others to do, or a locally hosted wallet in a virtual machine on a desktop which I already mentioned and alluded to if you had bothered to read and understand anything at all thst I said. >You misunderstood me. The Macs without > Apple silicon and with shitty Intel chipsets > are no more secure than Windows machines > that are literal minefields of malware. Nope, I understood you the first time around, but you still didn't understand my response to you on it. *It doesn't matter if the chipsets are Intel, AMD, Arm-based, Motorola, Cyrix or zilog 80 even, the "security" you THINK you have from software running on ANY bare metal system is afforded to you by the operating system and its programs which ARE NOT WINDOWS IF THE USER HAS AND USES ANOTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS LIKE BSD UNIX, LINUX, BEOS/HAIKU, QNX, OR EVEN FREEDOS WITH A TCP NETWORK STACK. NONE OF THESE ARE "WINDOWS" AND EVEN "WINDOWS" HAS TO BE RUN CARELESSLY TO PICK UP SUSCEPTIBILITY TO CERTAIN TYPES OF MALWARE AND VIRUSES FFS!* > Until Apple's newest chips get exploited, > their devices are probably the most secure > machines available to consumers today. NO. AGAIN YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. THE INSTRUCTION SETS AND FIRMWARE ON THESE CHIPS AND THEIR DESIGN ARE ALREADY EXPLOITABLE ON PURPOSE BEFORE THEY ARE MASS-MANUFACTURED AND SOLD TO YOU. >Lmao I'm not even an Apple fanboy, I just > understand how this shit works. No, you really don't understand how shit works at all. You sound like some young punk kid on reddit who wants to *feel* like they do, by attacking me *for actually knowing these things and why with real wisdom, which goes against and refutes the foolishness you only think you know due to the BS of today's so-called watered down "IT" which is a very far cry from actual computer science.* You don't understand how a paper bag with a hole has things drop out of the bottom if you think you "know how shit works" with your shameful response and pretending to. I've never read such stupidity to defend "mobile security", an oxymoron, like this. Either you were fooled or people are getting dumber and more easily controlled by lies than ever before. > Google are designing their own SoCs right >now and they will probably be more secure > than Windows machines when they're > released on their own hardware. No, they are not more secure than "windows machines" when they are designed to be accessed remotely bt alphabet soup agencies whenever they want to spy on or compromise the data of a user using their system. And why are you comparing apples to oranges?! Windows is a GUI that eventually became an OS when the NT kernel was merged with it. I have not suggested anyone use windows at all (but you didn't read, did you), and suggested they use linux or bsd unix instead. Kid, unix *is not "Windows"*. Please tell your "cybersecurity" friends that since they don't seem to know that or how mobile was designed to be taken advantage of. Try to be more respectful and actually know something (anything?) of what you're talking about if you reply. I am literally trying to help people, and you're just trying to muddy things out of jealousy or "because you love mobile" and don't like the truth. I don't have time for that nonsense kid, and neither do people losing $40,000 or are worried about it while using a phone and wondering what their next move should be. Get a life already and try to help people rather than being a pointless jackass. You might actually learn things without being corrected.

JamesWasilHasReddit

You're welcome. Anyone who thinks a mobile system isn't designed for compromise compared to a PC or laptop has it 100% backwards. Windows 10 is outright spyware, but using a linux or BSD system (or even Apple's OS X which was once based on a bsd kernel) is far safer than anything mobile. Apple is exploited still, even though they harden their app store more than Android and Google Play store by default. They're all accessible. Leaving your digital footprint everywhere with a mobile device is very hard to fix after the fact. You'd kinda have to take a step back, write down with a pen and paper what you need and what you don't on the phone, make a list of services you use and whether they can be run over a browser on the PC or a phone, and change your password for things one at a time to gradually invalidate any old footprint data on the device that could be scavenged and used to log in with. Start with your email password, since any device that has access to that can get a link to reset passwords with existing services. 2FA one-time spoofs are still possible but not probable. Using email with an updated password that is not logged on to from a mobile device is safer than changing passwords for services but leaving your email accessible still through an app or password cache file on a mobile device if an attacker knows where to look or installs malware to do it for them. This is usually a complicated and long process for everyday users, since they've been conditioned to do the opposite of this, consolidate their footprint, and throw their security to the wind. I could spend hours typing what to do, how to do it per app, per situation, per device...but in short, just don't trust mobile devices, windows 10, or anything cloud-based or with a middle man if you can help it. Instead, use linux, use a vpn, familiarize yourself with Tor, get familiar with virtual machines, research Tails and other LiveCD or LiveUSB OSes that load to ram only, diversify system dependencies, and keep the most important things - crypto and passwords to everything - offline without "screenshots" or compromisable photos of anything. Don't ever say a password over a phone call either these days or text it, because anyone on the other end or a bad app on either side can potentially record enough of the call to save an mp3 of what a verbally conveyed password is and send it to the attacker. The less you put online or make electronically available, the less there is for anyone to look for or try and take by any means.

Squezeplay

Well, macOS literally is BSD with a GUI. And most smartphones, gaming consoles, etc. consumers interact with are open source, \*nix based OS, and pretty much all web services / the internet is based on open source software and standards. Windows PCs are an exception to the dominance of open source software.

tylenol3

I agree with you, and I hope we somehow escape what seems inevitable. If crypto is like most other industries, centralised exchanges will be loss leaders and advertise their way into a huge market share and take advantage of their customers. I’m hoping that over time there will be technological and financial incentives for a good chunk of people to move to decentralised. I look at open source software as an interesting comparison. There was so much noise in the 90s-00s that open source was going to eat Microsoft’s lunch, but it took almost 30 years and a radical shift in the industry for Linux to be the de facto in cloud environments and commercial software still runs our endpoints almost entirely. Linux and BSD have been free, stable and comparatively secure for a very long time, but the most successful commercial model has been building on top of them a la Apple or Android. Perhaps what we will see are commercial exchanges that use decentralisation for transparency, possibly after a couple more big Mt. Gox events. Not my area of expertise, but I find it so interesting to follow. Appreciate the thoughtful post!

kurokame

You should attach a BSD style license to it. Then people could use it freely but still have to give you credit.