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    According to its website, it certainly can. Sounds like a chip is specifically made to handle the demands of scalability and security. Until it's tried, I don't know how we'll know for sure, but using a form of distributed ledger technology to secure and decentralize things sounds like a place to start.

    I have to wonder, though, at the audacity of someone to take a name like Skynet, which many Sci-Fi fans will recognize from the Terminator films as its choice for linking AI and machines.

    I suppose one could take that in a lighthearted, joking kind of way, or as a more aggressive stance meant to prove that the name is harmless and won't cause the enslavement of humanity.

    It wouldn't be the first time someone has done it, I guess. I don't believe you can tempt fate, but that doesn't mean you go stick you hand in an alligator's mouth, either. AI has enough build up anxiety within society as it is.

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    According the website, Github is a development platform. A lot of open source projects are there, and developers go and work on the different projects. It's been a way for a lot of these projects to move forward without major expense (though I imagine there are people getting paid, like STEEM developers), and to allow others to look at code that works and potentially incorporate them, if permitted, into their own projects.

    As mentioned above, STEEM is among the projects with different entries on Github. Pull requests to check code can happen there, discussions about what to include and what not to include, as well as analysis of how things are going can happen there. It puts all of this more or less in one file or place for anyone to go look and see what's happening.

    Towards the latter part of October, 2018, Microsoft actually bought Github. Before that, it was a community repository only. According to a post by Microsoft on their own blog site, the intent is:

    "Github will retain it's GitHub will retain its developer-first ethos, operate independently, and remain an open platform. Together, the two companies will work together to empower developers to achieve more at every stage of the development lifecycle, accelerate enterprise use of GitHub, and bring Microsoft’s developer tools and services to new audiences."

    As far as I know, STEEM continues to be worked on through Github, along with many other open source projects. Whether that will change probably depends on what Microsoft does. If they keep hands off, while working with the huge community of developers, projects will probably continue, even though some will inevitably leave for some other public site.

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    The specific term 'hodl" purportedly happened in December of 2013 on the Bitcoin Forum message board, where a user misspelled holding. Like a lot of things on the internet, people liked the mistake and started using it instead of the correct spelling.

    It appears that the use of the term 'whale' actually comes from the gambling industry, to denote an individual who could afford to lose an inordinately large sum of money. In the investment world, which includes crypto, it means more or less the same thing, though on STEEM it's more commonly referring just to having a lot of STEEM or SP.

    A lot of crypto slang comes from the investment world. Pump and dump, bagholders, to the moon or mooning are all intertwined with the investment world at large.

    There isn't an official way any of this comes about. People just adopt it or not, and most of us do it because others have done it, just like you might see people who use STEEM referred to as Steemians, and you might find someone signing off their post with "Steem on!"

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