Ethereum's got a market cap of $350 billion and it's where all the new development is going on, according to the Electric Capital Developer it has by far the most developers working on and with it. Approximately 65% of all new code written in the entire crypto industry is written for Ethereum or its Layer 2 scaling solutions (like Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base).

It's spelled "Dogecoin," by the way.

I said no major cryptocurrency. Monero's got a market cap of $8 billion, it's small fry.

I mean, it's pretty obvious. They release good open-weight models. Western companies did that a little at first, but they've basically stopped doing that any more. It's really easy to win a competition when one of the competitors isn't actually competing.

No major cryptocurrency has used GPUs for mining for many years. Bitcoin uses completely custom ASICs and Ethereum switched away from proof of work entirely.

You can get a quarter of the population to vote for basically anything.

It's important to say the "20" prefix so that viewers will know that we're set in "the future."

“Hunt’s signs are truly delightful,” said Kiri Jarden, the council’s principal adviser for community arts. “We totally support artists using humour to gently interrupt and engage passersby.”

A rare but welcome win for common sense comedy appreciation.

Whataboutism.

I don't know how you're measuring efficiency, but a heat pump with greater than 100% efficiency lets you build a perpetual motion machine. That's not possible.

There are some cities that do things a third way; they have a centralized facility that burns the gas (or other fuels) to generate electricity, and then also pipe the heat out to the city in the form of heated water or steam running through insulated underground pipes. Buildings tap into those pipes and run it through radiators. That has the potential to be even more efficient because you're using what would otherwise be "waste" heat, but it depends on a relatively compact city to avoid losing too much heat while sending it through the pipes. I understand this is not uncommon in Eastern European and Russian cities. I'm not familiar with the details, though, so if you want to know more about this I'd recommend Googling around a bit.

Yet, exceedingly rare to see fires from this

You just answered your own question. The techniques for running gas lines into houses and hooking them up to furnaces are very refined at this point, it can be done safely.

On the one hand not fond of the CCP, and this is a step toward making Taiwan more "safely" invadeable.

On the other hand not fond of the United States throwing its weight around like it's in charge of the world and not fond of monopolies in general.

So hard to settle on a reaction for this.