Casseres

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by Casseres 9y ago
So then why do those people need a cryptocurrency?
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by Casseres 9y ago
Love ≠ Trust For example if I love a junkie, I wouldn't want to enable that person to easily enter my house to steal something to pawn for drugs.
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by Casseres 9y ago
> you can always walk the hell away from them; your laziness doesn't entitle you Someone said they had a remote, dangerous drive, and all I did was offer a suggestion to help their safety. When I went backpacking alone in Yellowston
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by Casseres 9y ago
Sounds like an EPIRB for the car would be a good investment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_...
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by Casseres 9y ago
> just pipe your <put any coin here> through some random exchanges and you have the same effect It doesn't have the same effect. Blockchain analysis would be able to see right through that.
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by Casseres 9y ago
Perhaps the would-be theives might notice someone going through a lot of different addresses. Better to just use Monero and keep the single address for tips as no one would be able to see the address balance without a viewkey.
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by Casseres 9y ago
I just skimmed through their subreddit, and it appears to be between an 80% to 90% reduction. That still makes it a little larger than the average Bitcoin transaction, but the mentality there seems to be that privacy has its price. While n
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by Casseres 9y ago
I haven't voted on your comment in either direction, but if I had to guess why someone else did, maybe it's because you're speculating about what coin to buy in order to make a profit. HN seems to me like the place to discuss
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by Casseres 9y ago
I believe a drop-in replacement called Bulletproofs is being developed to reduce the transaction size. It's been a while since I looked into what else is being worked on. Smaller transaction sizes with adaptive block sizes seems like
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by Casseres 9y ago
I attribute my writing abilities to having read a ton of books as a kid. I read most of those books in middle school, but prior to that in elementary school, I was already reading at a 12th grade level according to some reading test we took
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by Casseres 9y ago
> the big short wrote that stripper to appear ignorant of the circumstances she was in While this article doesn't appear to be painting the same kind of picture, it appears that both people have similar levels of knowledge about the
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by Casseres 9y ago
I equate buying digital currencies hoping that they will go up in value as gambling. I do have some, so I am also gambling on it, but I would not call it an investment. Anyone can buy any amount of BTC. One does not have to buy in whole n
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by Casseres 9y ago
Reminds me of the film, The Big Short, where the main characters find out from an adult entertainer that she is buying multiple houses. The interviewer asks this woman about the future of Bitcoin when she's clearly not an expert becaus
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by Casseres 9y ago
And then later on transfer it to your main wallet and pay another fee, and trust that whomever your first address still isn't paying attention to it, or hope they didn't get their coins from a tainted source?
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by Casseres 9y ago
Craigslist now allows people to mark their posts as crypto-friendly. Anyone who accepts Bitcoin runs into the problem where others can know their balance by looking up the address (and thus could be at risk for theft/mugging). If peopl
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by Casseres 9y ago
Adding a fiat on/off ramp doesn't make a coin centralized. As for privacy, that's okay too. Once you send Monero to your own wallet, Coinbase has no idea what you do with it afterwards, just like withdrawing cash from a bank
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by Casseres 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias There are many instances where guns saving lives never make it into reports/statistics. Here are a few that do: https://bearingarms.com/category&#x2F
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by Casseres 9y ago
It's a great idea for making money. It's a terrible idea for a currency.
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by Casseres 9y ago
Good story, except Bitcoin isn't anonymous.
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by Casseres 9y ago
> all in a decentralized system of masternodes. That's assumed and not proven. There's a lot of dislike for Dash on r/CryptoCurrency for a reason. One of the biggest issues is where its creator, Evan Duffield, instamined
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by Casseres 9y ago
Volunteer full time.
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by Casseres 9y ago
You're comments and views are completely acceptable here. The only reason you might get downvoted is your comments about being downvoted - a self-fulfilling prophecy. I would remove them as they don't add anything to the discuss
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by Casseres 9y ago
How long ago, or how recently, did they take out the loans?
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by Casseres 9y ago
Possibly biased, but at the minimum uninformed. There's a lot more scams there that aren't labeled as such. My suggestion to the author: For each coin, search the internet with the coin's name and the word "scam".
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by Casseres 9y ago
If Square wants to be a cash intermediary, they should offer Monero. It's the most cash-like coin available since it's the only one that's fungible - an important aspect of any currency. The only problem is that it's n
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by Casseres 9y ago
In the publisher's description it says: > Note: Theodore John Kaczynski does not receive any remuneration for this book.
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by Casseres 9y ago
$5 fee for a $50 card? No thanks.
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by Casseres 9y ago
When reading those papers, pay attention to which transactions they are referring to. Some of the early transactions I believe are linkable, but the newer ones are not as RingCT and other features went from optional to mandatory. Check out
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by Casseres 9y ago
Not awesome for those value privacy. There are companies out their building profiles about you based on what you buy. Target may know when someone is pregnant even before that person tells her own family.

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