Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to You Should Know@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoYSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square85linkfedilinkarrow-up1418arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1414arrow-down1external-linkYSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed.en.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.ml to You Should Know@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square85linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresurvirtual@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 days agoBitcoin was publicly released with full code and no pre-mining. It could not be patented for this reason. The original creator is still unknown and has never moved their coins. This strategy is the way.
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoYo. Thanks for curing me of my ignorance, i had no idea. I’m going to have to read more about this! I always thought crypto was cool in theory, unfortunate the state of its practice.
minus-squarenomy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoI’m kind of on the same page as you, as a concept it’s really cool but all the hype and techbros around it are a huge turn off.
Bitcoin was publicly released with full code and no pre-mining. It could not be patented for this reason.
The original creator is still unknown and has never moved their coins.
This strategy is the way.
Yo.
Thanks for curing me of my ignorance, i had no idea. I’m going to have to read more about this! I always thought crypto was cool in theory, unfortunate the state of its practice.
I’m kind of on the same page as you, as a concept it’s really cool but all the hype and techbros around it are a huge turn off.