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by Laforet 9y ago
There are several residential blocks in central Shanghai, just a couple miles from the bond, that are still not fully served by indoor plumbing i.e. most dwellings have mains water but no sewage lines. Waste buckets are dumped by hand in co
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by Laforet 9y ago
Funny you mentioned crunchyroll, I regularly had to explain to people who they essentially copied youtube's bootstrapping strategy. GrooveShark is an example of failing to make it, although there are several successful clones elsewhere
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by Laforet 9y ago
Once an attacker controls a domain it is trivial to get a DV certificate signed with their own key.
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It will never be, and indeed nobody has bothered to make a bitcoin minibg js. Why? Because each desktop CPU would only yield 20-30 megahashes per second, less if you don't want to slow the user's computer to a crawl. A server woul
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by Laforet 9y ago
The mnemonic phrase is a representation of the private key, so the same limitation applies. I really like XMR but converting your money to XMR would still leave a paper trail.
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by Laforet 9y ago
Tether was allegedly created by Bitfinex to raise capital after the latter was hacked last year and had to find money to reimburse the customers. In April, Bitfinex was cut off from the US banking system and to this day it had no means to s
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by Laforet 9y ago
Indeed, prior to 2015 it had double digit inflation, thought this has declined to just under 3% per year and will continue to fall. Morever, some estimates suggest up to 1/3 of all BTC are unspendable (lost keys, malformed txns, minute
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by Laforet 9y ago
Civil forfeiture is not limited to cash money. Your lambo car, mansion house or any other property could be seized just as easily under the current regime. In case of crypto, the storage media containing the private keys could be seized. Fa
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by Laforet 9y ago
Even the Iraqi government shows more restraint. It's 1916 all over again.
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>some of the locations could have physical security (ie. it's in a bank safe deposit box that the bank only allows the owner alone to physically access) This remind me of stories of people on localbitcoins doing exchange at a local
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by Laforet 9y ago
Ethereum, like bitcoin, is not inherently anonymous. Criminal usage in both cases require extensive mixing which is a pain. https://blog.cyber.fund/huge-ethereum-mixer-6cf98680ee6c Bitcoin was the crypto of choice due to th
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by Laforet 9y ago
I might be wrong about this, but I think thermite is used more often as a simple welding method. Railroad workers doing track maintainence routinely use thermite to repair damaged sections. https://youtu.be/5uxsFglz2ig
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by Laforet 9y ago
The activation energy to get the magnesium ignited is rather high. There is little chance for them to spontaneously ignite unless the delivery truck is.gutted by a fire, and by then you have bigger problems than a kilogram of thermite.
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by Laforet 9y ago
Why does anything and everything has to do with bitcoin? There are hundreds of trillions of CNY in circulation compared to ~1 billion USD worth of bitcoin being traded everyday. Compared to forex the volume of all cryptos combined is a drop
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by Laforet 9y ago
It's still an option now, however it looks like they too will lose banking access in China soon. >The impact of the Chinese ruling on LakeBTC is limited. The only major change is that our services to all Chinese citizens will be sus
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by Laforet 9y ago
Sounds like general stores in small towns closing down because a Walmart has opened next door.
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> * https://github.com/acquia/lightning This project is a web development tool and has nothing to do with crypto. Back to your comments on the state of LN development, I would not call it robust when the current imp
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by Laforet 9y ago
>Fortunately it looks like it is just bitcoin by itself. Yes, my comment is mainly about BTC, although its many flaws are hardly unique so the same criticism will inevitably apply elsewhere. >When its network got full it lost its inno
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by Laforet 9y ago
How many of these new addresses hold significant funds, i.e. not throwaway change addresses?
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>Hand wavy nonsense. Exchanges have failed before and bitcoin is still going strong. The stakes are different this time. >There already was a hard fork, and the network did split, yet bitcoin is still going strong. The previous party
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by Laforet 9y ago
>The price rising is validation for services on the periphery. Apart from brand recognition, which application is best conducted on the bitcoin ledger than every other alternative? Please don't say "Store of value". >Es
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As long as there are two bitcoin nodes remaining to update the ledger we could call it "not dead", but the token would probably not be worth much by that point. And bitcoin probably have a hard time to recover due to the amount of
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by Laforet 9y ago
All right, I will be a bit specific for your benefit: - There is a lot of wash trading going on with several exchanges, some of which has had serious accounting issues since 2016. When they fail, the fallout will be far more spectacular tha
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by Laforet 9y ago
And what is the point? Does the price prove that bitcoin has not failed? To me, bitcoin died sometime in 2013 when mining became hopelessly centralised, breaking the economic and security models Satoshi had set forth. The bitcoin thereafter
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by Laforet 9y ago
The kinds of keyboard you will find in Japan are all heavily localised with different mapping for symbols and a number of context switching keys squeezed in at the expense of the space bar[0]. This is usually not a problem for typing Japane
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BTCChina's ICOCoin ($insert yo dawg joke here) stopped trading since saturday, I think most sane investors saw this coming from a mile away.
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Probably not, they are expensive, fragile and have very limited utility outside a major eclipse event. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1335775-REG/formatt_h...
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by Laforet 9y ago
The counterfeit pair probably had a more reasonable frequency response than the genuine product it was trying to imitate, so much for Beat's famous distorted bass.
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>The problem with Juicero is that their user experience laid bare how futile and ridiculous their product was by having consumers manufacture the product themselves. Blue Apron and every other meal kit delivery business sits on the other
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Thanks, as I though it is quite tame by any standard. Perhaps when one goes out to find ghosts then one will see ghosts everywhere.

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