If you don’t own Bitcoin you are short Bitcoin
https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1357148068706189312?s=19
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Great way to frame it!
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Sia has 3 times fewer hosts than 3 years ago: https://siasky.net/
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The hosts are saying “Sia later” 
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Useful stuff for adding search to your Safe website especially if performance is important.
Not directly relevant to a general Safe search, but probably worth a read @david-beinn.
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Carl did some work for us, so his names in our git history Nice guy and very productive.
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Rust just blows me away with the NOT needing garbage collection. I’ve never had to write anything that’d require garbage collection, but now finally understand how much of a head ache it could be and how truly revolutionary this language is for big applications. Kudos again to @maidsafe switching so long ago.
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We need to thank @frabrunelle it was him that poked me a few times about trying rust. At first, I had no time, then when I checked (rewrote self encryption with it) it was 
and a no brainer.
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Thanks @frabrunelle! This project is the only reason I started learning about Rust.
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Privacy dominates Digital Euro debate
The ECB recently closed a public consultation on its future plans for a digital euro, which resulted in ‘privacy’ being the number one concern among stakeholders. And while the ECB is taking due account of the survey’s emphasis on privacy, there are questions that remain.
Panetta was pressed on Wednesday as to the privacy protocols that would have to be put in place should the ECB seek to track cash holdings for digital euros, bearing in mind that the monetary union has previously pitched the idea of imposing a €3,000 threshold.
“It is true that if we want to guarantee the stability of the system and enforce those limits that I mentioned before – the maximum holdings of a digital euro – we cannot guarantee 100% privacy on larger payments.”
Panetta added that should the competent authority wish to check whether an individual holds more than €3,000, it should have the ability to identify if two different smartphones containing digital euro holdings belong to the same person, for example. And if that would be the case, the ECB would “not allow that transaction,” Panetta said.
The ECB is considering additional privacy protocols that could be implemented into the digital euro, including the option of making small transactions ‘totally anonymous’ as well as being conducted offline.
Panetta also revealed that the ECB was mulling over the possibility of issuing ‘anonymity vouchers’ to users of a digital euro.
“You would have a voucher and you can spend it in a way that is not tracked by the system and would allow you to keep full control of your confidential and personal data,” Panetta said.
More generally, the chair of the digital euro taskforce conceded that there is likely to be a tradeoff between the efficient operation of the digital euro and privacy standards in the future.
“There is a tension between controlling and guaranteeing the functioning of the system and the protection of privacy. At a certain point, that trade-off should be analysed not only by the Central Bank, but by the public at large.”
Notice they want to implement a limited DBC similar to what Safe Network will have only without limits.
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@19eddyjohn75 today I heard that the perseverance is about the size of an SUV! I haven’t confirmed that here-say yet but that was outside of my expectations. Hope the drone holds up cause that’s a neat first.
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This was also great to see.
Soon we might even get aerial 
pictures from the drone 
(also thought it was a drone)
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So are Tether worries all put to bed now?
No more fear it will collapse bitcoin etc.
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Still seems a little, shall we say, tricky…
…the settlement said, “As of November 2, 2018, tethers were again no longer backed 1-to-1 by U.S. dollars in a Tether bank account, because a substantial portion of the backing in the Deltec account had been transferred to Bitfinex to make up for the funds taken by Crypto Capital, while the corresponding funds transferred from Bitfinex’s Crypto Capital account to Tether’s Crypto Capital account were impaired by Crypto Capital’s actions.”
In a statement, New York Attorney General Letitia James said, “Bitfinex and Tether recklessly and unlawfully covered-up massive financial losses to keep their scheme going and protect their bottom lines. Tether’s claims that its virtual currency was fully backed by U.S. dollars at all times was a lie.”
Speculation is it just paves the way for the DOJ to get stuck in now
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