Carlton2082

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   by Carlton2082 6y ago

   >radiation can't be seen Not to be pedantic, but...
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   by Carlton2082 6y ago

   The fourth word on Tether's wikipedia page is "controversial". Nobody is under the impression that it's fully collateralized. Would you care to make the case that a different, trusted stablecoin isn't fully collater
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   by Carlton2082 6y ago

   https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-pizza-10-years-laszlo-hanye... The pizza was 10k BTC (now ~$443M). Tesla bought about 25k BTC.
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   by Carlton2082 6y ago

   Your concerns about network trust are entirely unwarranted. In the bitcoin whitepaper published over ten years ago, before the software was even written, Satoshi explains how a trustless network might be created via Proof of Work. On the to
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   by Carlton2082 6y ago

   Have you read the original memo with the citations intact? Gizmodo published an edited version. I would agree that the memo reads like a series of bigoted conjectures if you read the edited version.
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   by Carlton2082 6y ago

   The analogy works even better because organ transplants are sometimes necessary and sometimes not. Although GP started off defining a binary, I don't think they are thinking in black and white. A charitable reading of the GP implies th
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   by Carlton2082 6y ago

   I believe GP is trying to conjure up images of flying kits in thunderstorms or walking around with radioactive material in your pocket.