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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-May-2021 20:50:45 EDT lnxw48a1
   Although I am slightly positive on #cryptocurrencies, thanks to #sonTwo’s father-in-law sending them a little money to “invest”, and the near-daily conversations about the topic that it inspired, I’m not one of those crypto-nuts.
   
   There’s an IT person working for $EMPLOYER who sends me texts telling me how much he has invested in #DOGEcoin and how many millions he will have once it goes up to $2. He’s nuts. I keep telling him not to put anything he cannot afford to lose into DOGE, but he can’t hear me, because he’s fully convinced that this can only go up in value.
   
   On the other hand, when talking with my son, we mostly talk about currencies that are actively used for buying and selling goods and services. If there’s no market for a token or coin other than speculators, they’ll eventually move on, sticking the last person with huge losses on now-worthless tokens & coins.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-May-2021 21:10:42 EDT lnxw48a1

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      This is why I’m quizzical about the #Rebol inspired #Red programming language ( https://www.red-lang-org/ ) gaining some sort of deeply embedded #cryptocurrency / #blockchain attachment.
      
      It doesn’t bother me that “they wrote a cryptocurrency wallet in Red”:{https://www.red-lang.org/2019/07/red-wallet-040.html}. What bothers me is that it sounds like “they’re deeply integrating blockchain into the language itself”:{https://www.red-lang.org/2017/12/leaping-into-future-red-goes-blockchain.html}.
      
      I see the potential, yes, but deeply tying one’s programming language to a single concept like this is a questionable choice, like creating a language and bonding it to CORBA would have been twenty years ago.
      
      I guess we’ll just have to see how deeply integrated this Red/C3 “dialect” is. Some REBOL dialects are effectively a set of user-level functions. If Red/C3 is also, then it isn’t a big deal. If, on the other hand, it is part of the red.exe binary, then it may easily become an issue.
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 02-May-2021 09:11:41 EDT lnxw48a1

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         It looks like Red’s site hasn’t had an update since 2020-08-20. They’ve been committing code, though.
         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 12-Aug-2021 03:01:05 EDT lnxw48a1

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            Update: They recently posted a progress report on the https://www.red-lang.org site