Why would anyone care about it being uglier? It's WhatsApp. Ugly is their visual identity. If they changed their app to resemble a neon citylight barely anyone would even notice, let alone complain.

What are you hoping to accomplish by pasting AI generated word soup here?

Great interview! The whole proof-of-work approach is fascinating, and reminds me of a very old email concept he mentions in passing, where an email server would only accept a msg if the sender agreed to pay like a dollar. Then the user would accept the msg, which would refund the dollar. So this would end up costing legitimate senders nothing but would require spammers to front way too much money to make email spamming affordable. In his version the sender must do a processor-intensive computation, which is fine at the volume legitimate senders use but prohibitive for spammers.

I wouldn't call it unprecedented, just more obvious

"mistakes"

Looks like the delay in 2011 was so big the data became available after the 2017 one

Where and what is texas?