Sad but true. Also, this is the first I’m hearing about the Hampton Institute. They sound interesting and their namesake was certainly inspiring. Seems like maybe they are not that active anymore though? I can’t find anything published on their website in the last 9 months or so. Anyone know anything more about them?

This would indeed be amazing for battery life. I noticed the change was indicated only under the original LCD deck BIOS and not the OLED. Is it coming to OLED later? Already implemented on it and I didn’t know it??

Very low fee cross-border (remittance) transfers using stablecoins (cryptoassets that are pegged to a fiat currency like the dollar) allow people to avoid getting ripped off by companies like Western Union.

On crypto platforms like Ethereum that support smart contracts (basically computer programs that run on the blockchain and allow you to automate transfers etc), you can provide liquidity to money markets and asset exchange platforms and earn many times the interest yield (APY) of what you might get at a bank for a similar thing (like 12-60% vs 2-5%). If you’re a real finance nerd you can also access various exotic financial instruments on other platforms that otherwise wouldn’t be available to you unless you were at a huge investment bank or hedge fund and even some that aren’t possible there. These are often called DeFi platforms (Decentralized Finance)

Another huge use of crypto networks are money laundering and scams though so beware. It’s still a largely unregulated black market. Never put more money into a crypto network than you can afford to lose.