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See: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/10/19/lets-tal... About client side benefits. I'm not advocating for JS in the browser but there are benefits to doing some work client side.
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That aphorism is used by naive people who 1.) want to capture the upside of if they're right but suffer no penalty if they're wrong. 2.) Don't understand how to take low probability, high payout exposure: Buy a deep, out-of-m
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>The link you provided actually contradicts this statement. If Chartalism was a valid theory then no fiat money -- which required to be used to pay tax -- would have ever failed. That is to say, history and time provide real-world proof
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>The fact that money is a store of value You are arguing that something that can be effortlessly created (paper money) is a better store of value than something that cannot be effortlessly created (bitcoin). >systems that try to tie v
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Bringing up a comparison to Visa is immaterial: Bitcoin isn't competing with Visa. Visa's purpose is to update the bank accounts of distrusting parties (and credit and quality dispute issues). You need FedWire and an entire bank
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>the number of 2 or more income households has actually fallen Where in your citation is this claim supported? The /percentage/ has fallen which could either mean that the number has fallen or that the total population increase
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I assumed it was the tweak they made to ARM pointers
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Digital dollar != a programmable digital dollar. It's like bitcoin, but will all the downsides of the dollar (endlessly inflating) + all the fragility and throughput constraints and centralization risks of ethereum.
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What are the errors?
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Bitcoin doesn't need to stabilize to be successful. In the same way that the exchange rate of the hyperinflating German Mark and gold didn't need to stabilize. All bitcoin needs to do is continue to operate with it's program
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>it's silly to choose every user being able to run a full node over every user being able to write to the blockchain There's no purpose in asking a user to run a full node to write to a blockchain. A user/client runs a no
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>This comment seems to imply that all court admissible video evidence comes from trusted chains of custody and thereby trusted sources, which isn't necessarily the case. What's stopping a defense attorney informing a jury about
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Before investing time in learning how to program on ethereum, one should first assess the engineering feasibility of it's blockchain: https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/how-does-ethereum-work-... Take a look at
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>The embassy did remove Mr Assange's internet connection in March, accusing him of "interfering in other countries' affairs". Since all states are always "interfering in other countries' affairs" this i
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>Personally I'd rather get rid of all of my passwords and use FIDO2 FIDO2 should be implemented in many more areas but it shouldn't be exclusively relied on for authentication. Authentication should require proof of person&#x2
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Related:Ship of Theseus In the metaphysics of identity, the ship of Theseus — or Theseus's paradox — is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether a ship—standing for an object in general—that has had all of its component
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>"about 30 percent... involve a beneficial owner or purchaser representative that was also the subject of a previous suspicious activity report." There are so many issues with conclusions like this but the simplest question to
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Thanks for the site and correction.
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State of the art in L2 transactions means that you can send a payment without needing to issue a L1 transaction. There's a small, defensible risk that the sending party could try to broadcast outdated state in the L2 transaction (tryi
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>Bitcoin in contrast takes 10 minutes to clear and settle a single transaction vs. Ethereum that takes 15 seconds.” This is a misconception in the cryptocurrency space. There is no such thing as a irreversible payment only variance of t
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>That's what off-chain solutions are supposed to fix, although they come with their own caveats. L1-enforceable L2 bitcoin transactions have risks for the recipients. If you're the sender, you don't care.
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All of your credit card transactions leak more and more of your PII data to the world. CC also sell all of your financial transactions to third parties. Have you factored in the cost of identity theft that results from you paying with a c
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Photos of the birthplace of hiphop: http://80s.nyc/#show/40.8340/-73.8763
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Where Can I learn more about cross-chrominance and cross-luminance?
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Because there are some terms which are antithetical to law. If you sign a contract stating that you're willing to become someone's slave for $x, that violates natural rights and would be voided by a court.
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Robust is probably a better word to describe attack resilience.
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>Mr. Recny asked why an enterprise that required only a few people to run it should be able to drive up the operating costs of a company that employed about 500. Why should an enterprise that requires only about 500 people to run it be a
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If one needs proof of existence features, bitcoin already delivers this trustlessly at scale: https://opentimestamps.org/ You merkle hash effectively limitless data into a single bitcoin transaction. No need to spin up a n
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What do you need a blockchain for? Blockchains are necessary when you need: Proof of publication Trustless time stamping Trustless transaction execution.
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Bitcoin Layer 1 (on chain) ~= .09 euro Bitcoin Layer 2 (lightning network) ~= 0.0005 euro Source: https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/1029425619350642688 These costs are independent of the bitcoin amount trans

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