I didn’t say I needed it spelled out, you assumed I did. You made a point in an insult and then called me a child which clearly the irony is lost on you.

That said, look at the entirety of the GOP under Trump. He gets whatever he wants from them. But since you seem like yelling, have a good night.

I am unsure why you’re resorting to name calling rather than clarifying your point, which I find rather sad in the discourse we tend to have but also in your case, ironic considering your complaint.

The power of the Presidency is the bully pulpit that you can use to exercise your will and extract the votes for what people *want*. Go to people's home states, ask them to answer for "why" and force them to lose re-election. He chose to take that excuse so he can not hurt his future earnings.

You expect journalists to actually research? Crazy man.

This was the plan all along. He interrupted no business, got an amazing amount of recognition just by dehydration for a day and wearing a diaper.

He is a good speaker, but at the same time while he has his hands in the pockets of big pharma, I will pass on this stunt for what it is.

He needs to stop taking pharma money and I’ll consider it.

The challenge I have with it lately is that people point to 'revenue' as some evidence it's a good idea. Just because I can sell somebody a dream doesn't mean it will come true.

Asking tough questions as a person of color gets you a visit by ICE even if you’re born here, so our perspectives are slightly off.

What do you think Google does, or Facebook? Hell, even Bluesky in its default state.

As an engineer in the past, the constant challenge of solutions and trying to find something new is how we generally progress, so I enjoy it myself :)

It’s been a bit since I looked at any new system designs, but validation of chains by nature is slow. Will try to revisit but lately quite occupied!

Private blockchain with a centralized authority system. It’s basically a database :)

I’d have to read up on the other suggestions you have as I’m unfamiliar but if it operates on traditional crypto models, likely inefficient. For reference, BTC is 7 transactions/sec, VISA is 30-60k/sec.

Even if banks validated all transactions to validate a hash, it would be on a centralized system that is counter to the idea of decentralization crypto espouses.

The way crypto platforms work is that they are actually validating the hashes for security every time, which is why commits take *forever* whereas banking systems assume their own platform is trustworthy and don’t do the same level of checks, though there definitely are checks going on.

They don’t. The model for all payment settling is still centralized no matter what, which winds up acting like a database. Even the Onyx blockchain platform for JPMC is centralized. If you want to know how I know, I work in payments in JPMC :)

It is a good way to validate transactions because you can match each hash, but the throughput of a system like that does not scale for how we do payments today. Especially in a decentralized model. It is secure and auditable (like logging) but not fast at all.