Haven't kept up with all the posts on this list but I've been on this
   thread about deadly-digital-money a bit.
   On Sat, May 23, 2020, 12:10 AM grarpamp <[1]grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:.
   <summary of part of what I snipped: all the major anonymous coins have
   been deanonymized.  the pattern of when that is possible hasn't been
   summarized for continued use of them.  usa still hates cryptos.>

     Still no good distributed DEX's in operation with open APIs
     for wide range of coins to plug into for cross-chain atomic swaps.

   I must have missed where whatever the issue with bitshares (trading bot
   at [2]https://github.com/Codaone/DEXBot ) is.  It seems to meet your
   qualifications to me but may fall short in other areas.

     [3]https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/gmhuon/in_the_la
     st_24_hours_bitcoins_nakamoto/
     Watching the mining pool charts... the large pools are slowly
     killing
     off the smaller pools. BTC.com and AntPool are both Bitmain,
     Nakamoto
     Coefficient (a measure of decentralization) has dropped to 2, they
     control 62% of the hashrate.
     [4]https://btc.com/stats/pool?pool_mode=day
     Welcome to joint problem of ASICs... central sole source ASIC Corps
     presale
     mining out with their own HW first, then dictating preferred bulk
     sales channels
     and destinations... and lack of personal responsibility to your own
     nominal values
     held by running and adopting global commodity CPU/GPU mined
     ASIC-hard
     coins, abandoning large pools for smaller pools. Avoiding your
     responsibilities
     in these ways will get you censored and wiped out... just like Fiat.
     If it's
     free no effort you take, you become the victim.

   I began "birddogging" (brazenly approaching and trying to ask concise
   obvious questions that peoples' conversation habits have been tending
   to turn away) the developers in response to this
   at [5]https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2020-May/
   017882.html .  The first reply I got included a proposal that we work
   to build international electricity infrastructure rather than work on
   software solutions, maybe parroting something old.  It takes a while
   for replies to trickle through the moderation queue.

     Random youtubes...
     [6]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXqc-yyoVKg Hayek on Friedman and
     Keynes

   (personally I don't watch youtube, hard to quickly grok (i.e.
   understand thoroughly), and requires graphics systems that crash my
   overburdened devices; but I miss most information anyway.  i know you
   guys are good at bringing what's important into text and it's my
   responsibility to read it eventually)

     Happy Cryptocurrency Pizza Day.

   I discovered that with a lot of chemical processing old mining
   equipment can be used to fertilize wheat used for pie crusts.  The
   running mining machines fire the oven.  (I'm joking here, not intended
   meanly: trying to raise a little how to consider both the merits (e.g.
   transparency, economic accessibility) and harm (e.g. energy waste,
   deadly detached capital culture) of cryptocurrency, together)

References

   1. mailto:grarpamp@gmail.com
   2. https://github.com/Codaone/DEXBot
   3. https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/gmhuon/in_the_last_24_hours_bitcoins_nakamoto/
   4. https://btc.com/stats/pool?pool_mode=day
   5. https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2020-May/017882.html
   6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXqc-yyoVKg