Seems like every celebrity and talk show host was pushing NFT's, be it Kardasians, Kimmel, Fallon, even Bill Murray released a collection 1 month ago. Ultra stars like Tom Brady to Mark Cuban were investing and (still) talking about crypto companies they are heavily invested in. Half the superbowl ads this year were advocating for people to waste money on crypto.
I wasted a year of my life working for a crypto company, I've actually committed code to Ethereum through the Geth project. I learned it's all a casino of completely useless money moving schemes.
What makes even ENS cool tech? The sole purpose of those .eth domains is to receive crypto, ohh and make the founders extremely wealthy. Why did they need to launch an ENS coin, other than to dump on the public when it was 5x the current price.
I'll take you up on that challenge. I can open open up my Wells Fargo app and initiate a wire transfer within 5 minutes. In fact, I sent $1000 to a home contractors bank account earlier this week for no fee. And yes, WF sent me email updates of the status. I will concede it took 1 business day though.
How do I send USDC within 5 mins? I would have to
1) Open an account on a crypto exchange app
2) Go through the KYC process and hookup the same wells fargo account to buy USDC.
3) Purchase USDC, usually while paying a fee. And then still wait the day for the funds to be sent from WF to the exchange.
4) Send USDC to address, while also paying a fee.
There is a reason international remittances haven't worked as a use case, for ex Coinbase just closed down that entire project. How would immigrants who get paid in Cash buy USDC and how would their family in Mexico or El Salvador be able to convert that USDC into local spendable currency. I hate western union but it works better than any crypto money sending service.
My remote org had an onsite this past week. I forgot how much I hate 'socializing' and how useless water cooler talk is.
They tried their best to make it enjoyable but I am so much happier in my home office with no background noise, no need to get dressed up, and being able to define my own schedule (I eat lunch at 3-4pm and bay tech orgs serve lunch at noon with all the smells disturbing me).
My NAS has a torrent downloading software and an app for my Samsung TV. I just visit my local network web address, add the torrent in the NAS dashboard, and am able to play it from the TV within a few minutes. Most content is great, occasionally there are audio issues or missing subtitles.
I worked at a security consulting firm that had an 8 GPU password cracking rig. Teams would be able to send it hashes obtained during assessments/red teams and try to discover passwords.
I was not doing that type of work so I'm not sure what type of software was used but I think it had multiple open source programs available.
I work in security (at a crypto/web3 company!) and the opposite line of thought prevails in the field, most security experts argue that biometric data is fundamentally insecure especially for auth. A quick google search shows a lot of research backing that, from universities to major tech companies.
>Using ZK-Snarks with biodata allows you to verify, profit and protect your data. Instead of handing it to some entity to do god knows with.
How is this going to happen exactly? The requesting entity, like a doctor, asks for medical history. I use my retina to verify, and thanks to ZK-Snarks they have no knowledge of my retina data. How are they going to get the blood pressure readings? They need the data to analyze and understand. And what stops them from saving it in their own DB?
Similar with many of these web3 products. Think, uniswap or defisaver. Ok you can use ZK to auth, they have no idea what wallet address is connected. But as soon as you use it they know exactly who and what you transferred and traded, all stored in a DB.
The vast majority of tech offices are in Soma with some in Financial district. There are literally tens of thousands of pedestrians and tourists walking around and workers going to offices everyday in that area.
It is not a dystopian hellhole like you are describing, it's not even as bad as the Tenderloin.
Texas is very diverse. I was born in El Paso in west Texas where my high school peers making $70k can still buy a house and support a stay at home parent. Median home price is $182k and meals and labor are so much cheaper.
Most of my college peers moved to Austin or Dallas where cost of living and housing is extremely different. Austin median home price is now $575k in the city and $480k for the 5 county metro region.
Growing up in a working class family (dad worked at a kitchen, mom as a part time hair dresser) we always had a maid from mexico come in once a week for $60 for ~8hours. She cleans, does laundry, and even cooks a meal and makes a big pot of beans during her time. In Austin I pay $150 for a 2hr cleaning session with no extras.
I have friends that joke that Crypto was introduced by alien lifeforms or time travelers as a way to burn our environment down before reaching Stage 2 of the Kardashev scale[0].
Human greed is too powerful for us to ignore the negative impacts and it is destined to destroy humanity. I work in a related space so I don't agree but it is interesting to think about.
I've been in offensive security for ~10 years now and am a staff at one of these billion dollar SV tech companies now.
If you want to do pentesting (though i prefer the team offensive security) my advice is to learn the basics of web app security with something like portswigger's course https://portswigger.net/web-security.
Since most tech is really API's and web apps this course would be able to get you productive and probably a jr level skillset. OSCP is also good but I find network hacks are not as applicable today thanks to the cloud, though the thinking process and creative puzzle solving could be worth it.
I would particpate in as many CTF type challenges as possible (http://www.xssgame.com) then apply to jobs. Make it clear you are a junior but good at Burp and web testing.
This makes me think of my grandfather, a master mason who worked with thousands of other masons to build large parts of my city.
That skillset is nearly forgotten. Sure there are great instructional youtube videos and instagram masons who are brilliant but the vast talent pool is gone. We struggled to find someone to patch a giant rock wall earlier this year. I understand why people don't want to learn it and haul rocks and bricks everyday but that knowledge base is on it's way out.
I'm from Central texas, own 50 acres in the hill country and own several ar-15's. This guy is delusional, no one is shooting 30-50 hogs on their property. I only read the first few paragraphs but so far the conversation is ridiculous.
The sharpest shooters can get a few as they scatter, they are damn smart and very capable.
Seems like every celebrity and talk show host was pushing NFT's, be it Kardasians, Kimmel, Fallon, even Bill Murray released a collection 1 month ago. Ultra stars like Tom Brady to Mark Cuban were investing and (still) talking about crypto companies they are heavily invested in. Half the superbowl ads this year were advocating for people to waste money on crypto.