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If there was a problem redeeming Tether for USD, you'd expect that the market price distortion of Tether. But it hasn't[1] https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=POLONIEX:USDTUSD >they've created
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This attacked occurred on BTG a clone of Bitcoin, appropriating the name “Bitcoin” Gold. It has nothing to do with Bitcoin.
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A government agency that cant even count properly wants to control a back door key to swaths of private communications. Let that sink in.
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>It is most unlikely that [a US agency would violate the constitution by conducting mass surveillance of US citizens]. Imagine the problems if a whistleblower exposed that!
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Related: PonzICO https://ponzico.win/
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>stripping them away offer no privacy benefit whatsoever. If marketing company derive value off of tracking a user then yes there clearly is a privacy value of stripping UTM from a url. You needn't be that creative to think of an e
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>[it] doesn’t have a single fan. Indeed, it doesn’t have any moving parts at all. It’s totally silent — 0dB. Things without moving parts emit sound. LED lights are a simple example. Anytime you have a wave -- be it mechanical or elec
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Your argument is: "By making war more efficient/effective, we will reduce its use." Say a government only has nuclear bombs in its arsenal and they really want an enemy of the state dead. Do you think they're willing to
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You'd think that killing people would be covered by "Do no evil"
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>It's not possible to[...] Because there is no time-value trade off associated with delaying block create in PoS you can play games in the interim period of time. In PoW you pay a penalty for not building on a block. PoS basically
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Remember, the S in IoT is for security.
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One pays a premium for the security of a future, if you don't need that security, you can buy / sell at a better price.
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>commit/reveal algorithm or multi party computation Which is out-of-band work that erodes the claimed 'savings' of PoS, relative to PoW, and would have been better spent increasing the security of all transactions on the c
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PoS creates a system by which block nomination and chain-tip extension is an elective procedure. Meaning companies could censor transaction at effectively 0 marginal cost. Under a legal mandate, that method of consensus is untenable. See
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"Nothing is Cheaper than proof of work"[1]. The best that can be said about Proof of Stake is that you get marginally better security while sacrificing liveliness / allowing the consensus layer to be captured by regulators [
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It’s been 5-6 years since proof of stake was first proposed. Nothing is cheaper than proof of work: http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/
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Decompiling Bitcoin-stealing Malware(github.com)
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>> Do you accept the fact that time is the only input for the supply function? >No. Do you accept that the following line is nominally linear? https://blockchain.info/charts/total-bitcoins?timespan=1year If yo
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>the total amount of gold on this planet is finite You confuse yourself with two qualities: Scarcity and Controlled Supply. The two are not the same. >> Bitcoin's supply curve is programmed with time as the only input >A
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>Although price fluctuates, it's more stable than that of bitcoin, thus better suited as store of value. Price fluctuations are not what you care about with a store of value. What you care about is the elasticity of supply with res
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>the obvious approach would be to just remove the battery Might this constitute 'tampering with evidence'?
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>how many police departments have Faraday cages lying around? Police departments use Faraday bags to isolate the communications of a device once they take it into custody. I assume they do this to prevent RemoteWipe() commands from runn
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Advantages of gold over bitcoin: If there's a total internet && computer && electricity apocalypse, a physical barter exchange with gold is more trustless than bitcoin. You can still transact bitcoin but there's t
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>I [...] worked as an engineer at a well-known Bitcoin company). >Having said that, "Wall Street" should be wary of enabling the use of a system that is using more electricity than the country of Switzerland [0] without any
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The big picture is that OP doesn't discuss or realize the policy iatrogenics. It's equivalent of saying: "If we surveil everyone's communications, we can catch all murders and child abusers!" without addressing the
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>If that's going to be the sort of business that the GDPR makes unprofitable and unworkable then I'm very proud to be a European citizen. You would you be equally proud if we sprayed weed-killer chemicals everywhere to wipe out
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Clapper committed perjury and walked away a free man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=796gZxR9vVk
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LedgerX, Deribit, and Coinut all facilitate options contracts.
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You might enjoy: Influenza A (H1N1) – How many bits does it take to kill a human? https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=353
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>Nothing's going to be perfect, but the outlook is a bit more positive than presented in your example. Ideally what would happen is that the doctor would use their judgement to narrow down the candidates who the test is applied to w

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