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>Ethereum is the robust base layer for a whole bunch of stuff. Solidity et al are imperative languages which basically turn the never static ethereum blockchain into an absolute nightmare to reason about or write robust code for. See bas
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The ICO-scam mania is waining, systems that run those ICOs are cooling (Ethereum), but the need for a system of sound, programmable money remains. This is why Square is pursuing Bitcoin.
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You can build a system that allows charge backs on a system that doesn't allow charge backs but you cannot build a system without charge backs on a system that does allow charge backs. These escrow products already exist for customers
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>By that time, hotels will be more expensive than if reserved in advance. Hotel rooms are “perishable goods”. Generally prices will be lower than farther out but value will be lower than if you bought earlier. It’s like milk, grocery sto
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>how do these users vote? Simple, by running which ever client that has the consensus rule set they want. >how are they different from miners? Miners use hashing power to produce blocks that meet users' consensus rules. Users ve
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The SEC spokesperson probably doesn't understand that Ethereum nodes are so centralized that no end users run them and it's even arduous for production environments to keep them up. Given that Ethereum miners can vote for themsel
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>Time and again it has been proven that major blockchain's hashing/voting powers are in hands of select few. Incorrect, miners produce blocks that follow users' consensus rules. Users do not follow miners' blocks.
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Use of NAT to cope with IPv4 issues has an unintended privacy benefit. IPv6 obviates NAT and the privacy benefits.
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Research rather than speculation: https://blog.bitmex.com/tether/
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>it is actually very hard to sell [tether] for USD Kraken offers a USDTUSD pair. How is that hard at all? https://blog.kraken.com/post/206/kraken-announces-support-fo...
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>how could such a determination be possible? At the start of 2017 there were still lots of uncertainties and risk about how the Bitcoin ecosystem would handle certain waring factions inside of it. Will businesses be able to write closed-
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>magical fountain of fake dollars The problem though is that if ether really were a "magical fountain of fake dollars" that would be reflected somewhere in the market price of tethers. Look at the price charts for tether->U
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Leaf-Node Weakness in Bitcoin Merkle Tree Design(bitslog.wordpress.com)
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If you believe in this digital ID concept, go ahead and post your full legal name and a sha256 hash of some biometric data to this post.
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You rested your argument on the fact that we should take away someone’s right because they got annoyed. So no, I am not being unreasonable. I don’t need you to realize rights are inalienable but you do need to me to believe that submitting
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A false positive braking condition at 60 miles per hour is a pretty horrible user experience.
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>meant to help people who are annoyed So to summarize you: rights are not inalienable but dependent on if people get annoyed. Do you see how philosophically weak that position is? Should Muslims be deported because the US government fin
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>hyper-libertarians Pacifist, anarchist, libertarian call it whatever you will; at the end of the day you are supporting a system where peaceful people will either be imprisoned or have their property stolen if you don't do what men
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>people find value in living in a city and neighborhood that isn't completely focused on extracting the maximum economic value at any cost. More power to them. But why should we use violence means against peaceful people?
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>The goal with regulations like these isn't to make things "cheaper," but to control negative externalities. Seeing as the proponents -- of regulations regarding who can trade what with whom -- first cited issue is "A
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>putting pressure on the already cripplingly bad housing situation. No amount of demand suppression will ever fix a supply issue. “We’re better off not building up housing infrastructure subsidized by short term leases and just trying to
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“The government knows how to segregate us properly” And “Everything will be cheaper by limiting people the ability to trade”
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>Nope, it’s too hard! Computer vision and face recognition are legitimately difficult computer science problems. Someone is woefully ignorant how good facial-recognition surveillance is.
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State-Of-the-art Attacks on Secure Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets(youtube.com)
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Or that older devices (that have outdated hardware security) are more prevalent in Australia for which Apple can decrypt.
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Epistemologically, it can never be proven that a clone perfectly replicates an original. It can only be proven that a clone perfectly replicates the original in the dimensions you’ve analyzed (inductive process). Exactly why a model will ne
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>It does have the assets to let 100% of its depositors withdraw their accounts once its investments mature This line of thinking is what caused the 2008 crisis. The two metrics are interdependent. If a bank doesn't have liquidity,
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Ponzi schemes are 'investment' promises that require ever growing layers of patsies to be recruited for each patsies' pay off to occur. Fractional Reserve is a practice where an institution leverages themselves by only keepin
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Strictly speaking, it is classified as a conflict of interest.
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You're confusing a Ponzi scheme and fractional reserve. Two very different systems.

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