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Fritz Haber of the "Haber-Bosch synthesis" won the Nobel Prize for this discovery and is also the father of chemical warfare. His work led to the development of Zyklon B used in the gas chambers during WWII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb
The Population Bomb is a 1968 book written by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich. It predicted worldwide famine in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. Fears of a "population explosion" existed in the 1950s and 1960s, but the book and its author brought the idea to an even wider audience.
The book has been criticized since its publication for its alarmist tone, and in recent decades for its inaccurate predictions.
What is the use case for this? It seems like this would just ensure that you never receive an email from whoever was trying to reach you.
- Most of the time you give your email as part of an automated signup process - so no one on the other end would ever see the email from Reacher.
- If it's someone you know you would probably connect to them over Telegram, Twitter or Discord, etc. and not email (and if it's someone you know you wouldn't need to filter them to begin with if you did give them your email)
- Any normie who actually did receive and read an email back from Reacher would look at it for 2 seconds and say "WTF is this?" and move on with their day.
This service seems pointless to me 🤷♂️
According to this article they used their own BTC, NOT users':
The dollar value of the loan has not been disclosed, but it was collateralized by a portion of Coinbase’s total holdings of 4,487 BTC, worth around $170 million at the time of writing.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-took-out-the-first-bitcoin-backed-loan-from-goldman-sachs
Take this article with a grain of salt as it comes from a left-leaning publication, interesting nonetheless. They link to another article saying only 2% of remittances are coming in via BTC.
"Despite a reported $425 million spent by the Salvadoran government, the bitcoin project has not gone according to plan: After a botched rollout, bitcoin adoption is exceedingly low. The vast majority of merchants prefer cash, not only because it’s easier to make transactions, but also because many of them don’t understand how cryptocurrency functions, the bitcoin point-of-sale systems don’t always work, or they have no internet access."