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by 659087 9y ago
"Soon" is a pretty hilarious term to use here, assuming you're talking about mass scale resource mining in space. We must have very different definitions of that term.
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by 659087 9y ago
> I'm thinking something like draw regularly, in order to build a war chest to "defend" the cryptocurrency against too violent crashes Or just print fake money and call it "USD" on your exchange.
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by 659087 9y ago
Judging by various crypto forums, the method is typically to build an echo chamber and keep telling each other they're all going to be billionaires, while burying the opinions of anyone who dares to disagree. Another method is to get l
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by 659087 9y ago
> They are not building tools for the government to round up "undesirables" The tools they're building and the data they're collecting could certainly be used for that purpose.
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by 659087 9y ago
> Storing your coins on coinbase (or any other exchange) is pretty much always a bad idea. If you don't own the private keys, you don't own the coins. The problem here for most of the people currently FOMOing in, is that there
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by 659087 9y ago
> there's a lot of people putting their faith in opaque corporations Bitfinex and Coinbase, for example.
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by 659087 9y ago
I almost expected to see a "Buy my book / attend my seminar to learn more!" link at the bottom of this post.
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by 659087 9y ago
I can't imagine very many of the people FOMOing in in recent months could understand the whitepaper even if they tried to read it. The extent of their knowledge is usually something along the lines of "my friend/grandson&#x2F
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by 659087 9y ago
I sure hope you're right. It's far beyond time for the "changing the world!" and "Don't be evil" style feel-good propaganda of Silicon Valley to be pulled back to reveal the reality of what it has been us
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by 659087 9y ago
What could be more powerful than a US president who also happens to have direct control of a large portion of the world's communications and information consumption?
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by 659087 9y ago
> Exactly, an elected position would come with even more publicity, actual responsibilities and the possibility of being held accountable for his actions. Having full control of the platform a large portion of the population depends on f
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by 659087 9y ago
I wasn't really aiming that at you so much as at the constantly changing story about Bitcoin's purpose coming from the Bitcoin community as a whole.
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by 659087 9y ago
It's hard to argue that something that could be worth +/- 10%+ in the time it takes a transaction to process is a good "store of value", too.
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by 659087 9y ago
> 2) The people spamming the network stop That sounds kind of like hoping that people sending spam via e-mail just stop one day.
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by 659087 9y ago
> What? That doesn't even make any sense. You can sell the bitcoin for USD then pay your taxes. If that's the logic we're going with, I can pay my taxes with baseball cards and beanie babies too.
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by 659087 9y ago
After going out to see a movie for the first time in a few years this past weekend, I can't really picture many of the overweight families I saw fully reclined shoveling hamburgers into their faces wanting to get up and "interact&
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by 659087 9y ago
> It allows me to save my money outside of the global financial system, a system I believe is corrupt and manipulated. You'd have to be incredibly naive or willfully ignorant not to see the same corruption and manipulation happenin
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by 659087 9y ago
This same pattern seems to repeat immediately preceding any "big announcement" for pretty much every single coin/token out there. It's obvious that insider trading is rampant across the entire cryptocurrency market. I h
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by 659087 9y ago
Yes, there's an option to enable blocking. I think it should be the other way around, which was kind of my whole point. That's the only way to encourage site owners to stop designing sites that break when they can't spy on
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by 659087 9y ago
Tracking scripts should be blocked by default, not just delayed. If a user has some strange desire to be watched, give them the option to opt-in to their browser unblocking tracking scripts/domains.
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by 659087 9y ago
So do many of the Silicon Valley executives who are pushing their privacy invading products on schools. That's why they send their own children to private "tech-free" schools to prevent them from being exposed to the same pr
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by 659087 9y ago
> They were successful in the EU (the shopping and Android cases are slam dunks in my opinion) but were stymied in the US under the Obama administration (despite FTC staff recommending a case be made) [2]. I wonder why that was. https:&
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by 659087 9y ago
It would be kind of hard to prevent people from posting something about my death on Facebook, unless I figured out a some way to temporarily re-animate myself. I know a lot of people. Many of those people unfortunately use Facebook. There
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by 659087 9y ago
I sometimes worry that, after doing everything I can while living to avoid using Facebook and/or supporting their business model in any way, someone might throw that all away on my behalf if something were to happen to me. I'd see
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by 659087 9y ago
I'm not suggesting Bloomberg is accepting money, but individual writers would be a much softer target. It's also possible that the writers are invested in Bitcoin themselves.
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by 659087 9y ago
This seems to be the case with most of the articles about Bitcoin. I suspect there are a number of large holders and exchanges paying PR firms to get stories like this published/upvoted/etc and keep the train going.
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by 659087 9y ago
Many of the people we're talking about were dumb enough to buy $500k+ homes on "stated income loans", when they had little or no actual income to speak of. While I do think the people who were offering those loans should hav
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by 659087 9y ago
People discussing Bitcoin's cons are typically downvoted away by the same people yelling "HODL" and spewing various unhinged, delusional predictions about how a single Bitcoin will eventually be worth more than the US GDP. B
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by 659087 9y ago
I assume you're forgetting the incident where Uber started following users around even when they weren't on a trip? Also, take note of the fact that I said "outside of the Silicon Valley bubble". Believe it or not, ther
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by 659087 9y ago
By pay off mortgages, do you mean essentially giving free houses to people (e.g. rewarding them for making incredibly poor choices and financing homes they can't afford)? Or do you mean pay them off temporarily and have those people p

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