HashBasher

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by HashBasher 5y ago
Exactly, CashApp/RobinHood/Coinbase/Kraken are all bitcoin L2. Centralized and trusted, but L2 nonetheless.
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by HashBasher 5y ago
No, the transaction is fully signed and can be broadcast at any time by either party to settle. It doesn't have to be broadcasted and further transactions can be done on top and they just keep it private between themselves.
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by HashBasher 5y ago
Bitcoin is a guaranteed permanent store of value. It’s value comes from its scarcity, that isn’t going to change no matter what the markets do.
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by HashBasher 5y ago
How’s it bad? You have to accept responsibility when making transactions. This is tremendously beneficial for businesses and end users when making peer to peer transactions.
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by HashBasher 5y ago
A bitcoin transaction and a bank transaction are very different things. A bitcoin transaction is settled as soon as the block is mined. Without any third parties or trust involved, and no way to reverse the transaction. While a bank trans
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by HashBasher 5y ago
Your digital store of value promises to lose around 2% of its buying power every year, and they beat that by a lot this past year.
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by HashBasher 5y ago
IMO "passive income" has been hyped a lot by the pyramid scheme folks. If you have an income, you don't need another source of passive income, you need to save your money and invest it. For me, Bitcoin has been the only inv
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by HashBasher 5y ago
Where are you located? That seems like an insanely low salary.
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by HashBasher 5y ago
Easy to copy the coin, hard to copy the network effect.
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by HashBasher 6y ago
I also think that there's no afterlife. Soon as the brain stops working, everything goes dark. Eternal peace. I find it comforting in a strange way.
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by HashBasher 6y ago
Gold has a market cap 10X+ bigger than Bitcoin, why can't I buy beer with my gold coins?
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by HashBasher 6y ago
Will that stop you from making a small allocation into Bitcoin? Any and all risks to bitcoin can be mitigated by portfolio sizing.
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by HashBasher 6y ago
Or gold, or stocks, or real estate or anything that can be used as a store of value today.
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by HashBasher 6y ago
It will. Via second and third layers. It'll scale just fine. An example second layer that you can use right now is the lightning network https://lightning.network/
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by HashBasher 6y ago
Price hasn't zero'd out. Says a lot about the sophistication of the holders.
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by HashBasher 6y ago
Hopefully the person sitting in front of it.
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by HashBasher 6y ago
It's quite simple to disable Vimimum for a website, just click the extension icon and "Save Changes". By default it will add a rule to disable all keys on that site.
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by HashBasher 6y ago
Fantastic creation! I had a blast "reading" The Call of Cthulhu.
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by HashBasher 6y ago
You actually have sorted in your career?
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by HashBasher 6y ago
Coinjoin and coinswap is quickly making the tracing very difficult.
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by HashBasher 6y ago
Micro-payments can be done quite easily via Bitcoin's second layer network Lightning Network. There has been a functional demo of this technology for articles, check out yalls dot org. Also, no middleman needed, you can host your own
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Ask HN: How do you focus on work during a global pandemic?
10 points by HashBasher 7y ago|2 comments
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by HashBasher 7y ago
There is also a family exception to this ban. Maybe he can sneak in that way.
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by HashBasher 7y ago
Imagine the complexity of that. Mind boggling.
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by HashBasher 7y ago
Yes, we need more details about how to take care of yourself if you do exhibit those symptoms. Do we just address the symptoms? Anti-fever meds, cough drops?
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by HashBasher 7y ago
What's up here? I don't see any updates on their twitter or blog. What am I gonna do the rest of the day??
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by HashBasher 8y ago
I wonder if you could make the attacker crunch out some shah-256 and you can profit by mining Bitcoin.
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by HashBasher 8y ago
> it arguably failed. I wonder how many people called the internet a failure, 10 years in.
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by HashBasher 8y ago
I did this a while ago, but don't see a huge difference with ads. I confirmed that around 13% of traffic is getting blocked.
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by HashBasher 8y ago
And do what? Just quit your old job on the spot?

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