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  • They don’t connect to an API because the YouTube API requires the developers to sign YouTube Terms of Service, which they refuse to do for obvious reasons. This is why those programs break because they scrape the web page instead of using the API. So when the web page changes, the apps have to change in order to continue working. I think the reason it’s called soft piracy above is because you are using the service without watching their advertising and they don’t like that very much. piracy is wider scope than just torrents, but that’s what most people think of when they hear the word piracy.



  • Okay, I assume you turned it off and then turned it back on. So, my next thought would be maybe it is your system’s battery management that is somehow killing it. In which case, open thunder, then open the app’s witcher and then tap the thunder icon. Then tap app info and in the system settings there should be something for battery management. It will say that it is optimized for battery usage and you want to make it not optimized.









  • There are three countries who have launched a CBDC. They are the Bahamas, China, and Nigeria. And uptake in all three of those places is extremely low. As for the truly decentralized cryptocurrencies, they’ve been building for the last 15 years and are getting to the point where they are extremely easy to access and use. I remember back when every website had to write their own specific payment gateway to accept crypto and you don’t need to do that anymore. Decentralized finance applications are getting more secure over time thanks to audits and hacks of competitors. More liquidity is able to enter without shoving the price around quite so much and so it is becoming more stable over time.




  • Really and truthfully, it’s only getting in that is the difficult part. Because as you mentioned, you have to go to shady sounding websites or whatever. But if your job paid you in crypto, then you trust your job because you work there. So you have to have some trust in them. Then you use them in a circular economy such as Monero is trying to build where you buy your car with your crypto that you got paid from work and you buy your house with your crypto that you got paid from work and you buy your food with your crypto you got paid from work etc. The friction point is where you go from one system into the other system. Admittedly, you could also consider it a bit of a leap of faith because you’ve grown up trusting this one system, and now people are saying, hey, there’s this alternative system, you should give it a shot.


  • Personally, I definitely believe crypto really is the future. I know it has been hyped up a lot and that has contributed a lot to the volatility. But beneath all that, real people are building solutions to real-world problems. So much so that even companies like Visa are using crypto like USDC to do international transfers faster and cheaper.

    Edit: If nothing else, it significantly reduces settlement time for money in the financial system.