FreeCrypto

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by FreeCrypto 7y ago
Excited to read this. Their piece on heroin won a pulitzer last year: https://www.cincinnati.com/pages/interactives/seven-days-of-...
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by FreeCrypto 8y ago
Of course trust is still involved. The whitepaper specifically puts "trust" in the context of trusted third parties ("financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments"), and proposes
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by FreeCrypto 9y ago
Expensive and slow seems to be the point. An attacker would need to spend an inordinate amount to change just the most recent transactions - this provides high confidence that the chain is immutable and secure. Maybe digital scarcity with t
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by FreeCrypto 9y ago
I think you're right, he seems like a super nice dude in his interviews :)
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by FreeCrypto 9y ago
Exactly this. Kipchoge would probably be insulted that the OP uses the term "run" in describing anything that's slower than 5:15 pace.
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by FreeCrypto 9y ago
People want a coin that can give them 1000x gains, the next iteration of "buying btc in 2010." Far < 1% of those people has ever used a cryptocurrency to make a purchase. Related, but not directed at prev comment... If anyone a
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by FreeCrypto 9y ago
Sorry for the confusion, there was a spectrum. I don't think we're in disagreement here, you may be envisioning things that were not happening. To clarify, Security Guards checking badges wore suit jackets and did not appear to be
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by FreeCrypto 9y ago
Yep. My company paid a lot of money to sponsor a booth and make sure the majority of our interactions were with customers that we could sell to/partner with. Having a free for all would have greatly diminished the value of our time the
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by FreeCrypto 9y ago
Mostly agree. The Salesforce employee should have been able to escalate the issue to the right people to get it solved. Simply having a Salesforce employee vouching for them should have been rejected, as it was. There are thousands of Sales
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by FreeCrypto 9y ago
The event is massive, something like 180,000 total attendees. They actually shut down Howard St. between 4th and 3rd and roll out astro turf and put up fake rock formations and stages. There are tons of different badge types depending on yo
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by FreeCrypto 9y ago
Personally, I would like to thank Salesforce for a strong security presence at the event. There were bomb sniffing dogs, many security staff, and vehicle barriers with armed guards at street entrances. Despite being a sponsor and speaker at
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by FreeCrypto 9y ago
The most apparent reason is that ETH does not have a set supply cap, whereas BTC is 21,000,000.