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39,337karma·10,537submissions·July 8, 2008
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Working on stuff at the intersection of cryptocurrency and computer security. Also a Puerto Rico resident (Act 20/22); happy to help people move to Puerto Rico to take advantage of the federal tax exemption, 0% capital gains rate, and 4% business income tax rate. Also FFL07/SOT02.
Chief Security Officer for Evertas Insurance -- the world's first cryptoasset insurance carrier. https://evertas.com/
Previously, CEO and Co-Founder of CryptoSeal (YC S11), which was sold to CloudFlare on 2 June 2014. CISO/Board Member of Tezos Foundation 2018-2020.
Previous startup founder (HavenCo, a couple ecash projects, distributed colo, and DoD/Iraq contracting, new thing), too. Deeply interested in computer security, infrastructure, security, conflict zones, and making the world a better place.
Aside from living on a Caribbean island during crypto export controlled 1990s, I've lived on a tiny artificial platform in the North Sea, plus more reasonable places like London, Amsterdam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and spent 6 months diving in Thailand.
"I, the greengrocer XY, live here and I know what I must do. I behave in the manner expected of me. I can be depended upon and am beyond reproach. I am obedient and therefore I have the right to be left in peace."
Email: ryan@venona.com (etc) Twitter: @octal https://twitter.com/octal LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlackey
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recent activity (10,537 total)
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This is great research and if anything understates the case for alarm; Bitcoin is one of the more-decentralized projects, and PoW generally has some incentives for diverse hosting (if not network laye…
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Wirecutter has gone way downhill since NYT bought them, too. :( The only review source I trust is https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectFarm/videos …
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I've done JFK-OPO on TAP on a 321LR a few times; it's 2-2 staggered 1-1 in Business and quite nice. ( https://thepointsguy.com/reviews/tap-air-portugal-a321lr-bus... )…
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The NYT hit piece referenced in the article was fairly milquetoast: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/technology/kraken-crypto-... If it's accurate (big IF f…
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The article was https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/technology/kraken-crypto-... -- it was pretty milquetoast.…
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Celsius specifically; they were offering an income return for holding crypto (during a period of crypto appreciation), and the income was nice but ultimately not worth the principal risk. It was a lon…
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I kept a lot of money on them in 2021; was nice getting $1-2k/wk in "free money". I knew the risks, and have worked in the industry since before it was an industry, so no excuses. I pu…
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Not an attorney, not a tax attorney, not your attorney, but US persons are required to report bank accounts they hold globally under both FBAR and FATCA, and signatory authority on business accounts i…
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That is one of my favorite sci fi novels!
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Is this a case of politics, like science, proceeds one funeral at a time? Did the 1970s anti-nuclear people age out of the party leadership and membership so this could get revisited?
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0 EUR 2nd class (presumably fairly crowded) and ~market priced 1st (and potentially a car or two of 2nd at normal 2nd fares) might be an interesting experiment.
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An entity with a single purpose (accounting to issue no more of X tokens than they have Y tokens in another account) has a vastly easier challenge (both directly, and from audit/controls perspect…
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I thought most of these proposals were around doing device-local analysis and reporting (I suppose specific clients might not, but if they can mandate this at the device level, and make it default on …
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I'd definitely like our immigration system to be better executed even under the current overall goals; the arbitrary/capricious CBP officer at the border seems pretty bad. Most of H1B could …
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It still is relatively better to do pharma in PR than many other industries in PR, since it has an established workforce and a bunch of facilities, and there are PR-specific tax breaks under IRC 933 (…
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ACLU membership and staff have always been fairly left, but they were impressively focused on (IMO) the most important civil rights as rights through their work at ACLU, and largely kept their persona…
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Infrastructure sucks relatively to almost everywhere else in the US (better than other territories, probably better than parts of Alaska). Legal system is really bad (bad hybrid of old Spanish law, 19…
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Yes, but the context of this post was emergency systems which are purely chemical. For routine operations on e.g. a submarine, https://www.naval-technology.com/contractors/materia…
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Most interesting part for me was the basically continuous education aspect for everyone on board, as well as the very frequent drills. I guess a combination of keeping people educated/trained an…
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I don't see where it claims that. They point out that piped air is one option (which is basically continuous open circuit in these settings; exhausting to outside.). The alternative is oxygen cy…
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Yeah -- soda lime, etc. e.g. https://minearc.com/remove-co-co2-in-refuge-chamber-chemical... …
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Assuming this is about being a US citizen and doing this: Option B: Move to Puerto Rico, run your company from here, do Act 60, zero capital gains tax. It's challenging to build a successful bill…
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They don't even need to be on the same axis (although probably not really orthogonal in practice). Async on-site work is entirely possible -- if you're working in a high-security place, or w…
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It's the easily available financing (secured against bankruptcy) which has enabled the cost spiral; eliminating this would start to put pressure on university prices. This would cause them to be …
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I'd rather just make student debt "regular" debt, i.e. dischargeable through bankruptcy. Maybe secured by the actual diploma, so you can't claim to be a graduate if you default on …
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LOL. I had to drop out of (MIT, not BU, but w/e) due to not being able to get financial aid (even though I think it was technically during the "we will give you as much financial aid as you …