Bad Idea

Why adding Zcash style privacy to Bitcoin at the consensus layer is a bad idea: https://x.com/zodl_co/status/2061694427098218924

The wealth tax is a bad idea for many reasons But it is equally absurd that one can compound wealth indefinitely tax free (and borrow against holdings, again tax free, and deduct that interest expense against other income)

Telling researchers to exploit on public testnet is a really bad idea. Many bugs can be understood almost immediately from the signature. Even for the more subtle ones, knowing a bug exists in a particular area gives a hacker a ton of information to search for the cause. If i were a hacker I'd watc

Maybe writing a will early isn’t such a bad idea.

As I pointed out back in January: many UC Regents spoke in favor of keeping the SAT on May 21, 2020, only to unanimously vote to ban it later in the same meeting. They succumbed to the fad of the moment, despite the taskforce report the UC itself commissioned showing that it was a bad idea (https://

Overheard in Silicon Valley: “If Elon is right that consolidating into only one planetary civilization is a supremely bad idea because it radically increases the risk of the total collapse of human civilization, there should obviously be a triple hedge against one borg cube civilization, against one