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My hot take: of it’s open source and they don’t receive money from me, I don’t really care.

So you’re saying that it’s progressive to use bitcoin as … money?

But this is not just any abacus, it’s one that calculates all the results at once. That is a disruptive leap forward in computing power.

Because quantum physics. A qubit isn’t 0 or 1, it’s both and everything in between. You get a result as a distribution, not as distinct values.

Qubits are represented as (for example) quantumly entangled electron spins. And due to the nature of quantum physics, they are not very stable, and you cannot measure a value without influencing it.

Granted, my knowledge of quantum computing is very hand-wavy.

To this day I can’t fully understand why they did it.

One word: ads.

With RSS, you have content from various sources in one place, stripped of the ads, without any cookielicious tracking. How are you supposed to monitize that?

Moreover, personal transaction details of offline digital euro payments would only be known to the payer and the payee, providing a cash-like level of privacy.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/faqs/html/ecb.faq_digital_euro.en.html

Private payments with a wallet on you phone is something the digital Euro is supposed to offer, if it ever arrives as designed.