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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • Yeah, if I’m making something “masked/obscured” I should export it so that it’s in a raw format. That way there is no Metadata or information that could be leaked by accident.

    Think of the Trump Epstein files, in those they kept them as pdfs so you could just unhighlight the redacted sections. If they had export it as a jpeg/png you wouldn’t be able to extract any information.

    There are ways to remove the content from a pdf, but as we’ve seen, that leaves rooms for errors.

















  • So I’ve been reading into stable coins a lot, because I don’t understand why anyone would care about them. And what I’ve come to realize is they are a benefit to two groups:

    • Financial institutions: Stablecoins have fewer regulations and basically allow for things you can’t do with actual dollars/currency
    • People with limited access to financial institutions (think poorer people and/or countries): With fewer regulations it’s easier for people to transact Stablecoins than dollars/currency

    At the end of the day, it feels like a “true” digital currency would be the better solution, but everyones jumping on Stablecoins because they’re here now and less regulated.

    I think there is potential in a more cash-like digital currency, but Stablecoins seem ripe to break in some unforseen way, especially given the current administration.

    Edit: Edited to fix formatting.