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Hey guys,
We're interested in who else is building on top of Stellar, theres gotta be a lot of projects out there by now. We're doing a decentralized health insurance platform ourselves and we'd love to get in touch with whoever else is on this platform.
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We're all aware of the risks of keeping our coins on online wallets and exchange wallets, but many of us still keep our coins on our own devices.
Are we keeping our devices secure? Its instinctual to not leave your fiat money wallet unattended in a public place but what about your bitcoin wallet? Are you leaving leaving the laptop you're writing your novel on the table at Starbucks when you go the bathroom? The laptop with your electrum wallet, your life savings.
Where does the line between paranoia and reasonable physical security meet?
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As we know, a type one or PLANETARY CIVILIZATION
Has harnessed the entire energy output of its home planet or about 100,000 times the amount of energy we can harness. At this point, this civilization could control the weather on their planet and would not be phased by ecological issues. Natural phenomena could be altered and cities would likely be built wherever the civilization desired, like in the middle of the ocean. This is one self-preserving step in the direction of immortality for a civilization.
And a type two or A STELLAR CIVILIZATION,
Is a few thousand years more advanced than we are. This level of society would be able to harness all energy from its local star. This is where things start to get interesting and technology of this proportion becomes harder to fathom. A theoretical model that parallels Kardashev’s scale comes from Freeman Dyson, who conceived of the eponymous Dyson sphere. He formulated his theory in a paper titled, Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation, proposing a search for infrared radiation which could potentially be seen in civilizations harnessing the energy of their star with a Dyson Sphere. Dyson theorized a progression of levels in which a civilization could start to extract energy from its star ranging from a swarm of satellites to an actual spherical structure hovering around the star that could be inhabited.
And as of this moment it is believed that PoW style mining consumes close to 1% of all energy on the planet. The numerous ads we're all blasted with to sign up for some contract mining farm with over 1 million GPUs says that this is likely true. I've even worked for one and helped start another. Many, especially the newer ones found outside of Asia focus on using solar and hydro power in order to keep costs down and quite frankly that is just fabulous.
Could we be contributing to this push through demand for efficiency and overall consumption or are we more likely to reach a brick wall where our energy use infringes upon the planet's desire to produce electric power and we're outlawed globally in the same way that O-Zone destroying chemicals have been?
I think the former is more likely.
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I love steam but so many new games come out.
What've been your favorite new games? I've been mostly playing older games lately, but it feels like a waste of a 1080 graphics card.
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