MrMan

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   by MrMan 5y ago

   I am not arguing your point but offer an interesting cliche instead - we are the aliens, already so why does it seem so unlikely (a priori) that others are also the aliens?
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   by MrMan 6y ago

   I was laying in bed worrying about the serial and periodic nature of math curriculum just this morning. My kids will finish algebra I this year then geometry then algebra II. And still haven't been shown any statistics beyond mean mode
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   by MrMan 6y ago

   If gold went away as a trading instrument no one would notice. It exists, but it is not integral. Much more value is stored in the stock and bond markets and RE
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   by MrMan 6y ago

   My conjecture is that given two economic zones of roughly equal size, the economy which requires less energy to achieve a unit of productivity will be more competitive. Right now the game is being framed as honest crypto vs corrupt governme
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   by MrMan 6y ago

   Yes I see bitcoin causing a lot of trouble, if it is successful. And by trouble I mean violence and political upheaval
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   by MrMan 6y ago

   We don't have trust? You should look deeper at every transaction and interaction you undertake, every day
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   by MrMan 6y ago

   If what you say is true then what is the logical outcome? As you become more economically powerful due to the price of bitcoing going up, but you need to defend ever larger investment in mining and power generation infrastructure, you will
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   by MrMan 6y ago

   We have of course not "solved" trust but our world functions only to the extent that we have and share trust. It is far more valuable than any other asset maybe
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   by MrMan 6y ago

   I agree we already have a system of money and trust. Bitcoin energy demands will scale much more than any other uses of the energy grid going forward, so our entire economy becomes slaved to preserving bitcoin. A dystopia
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    I looked into staking eth to do my part. But my total return on staking is comprised of price appreciation, carrying costs, slippage in the form of fees (gas I think?), and finally the yield I get from the network for staking. I am worried
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    Thank you for wading in and trying to speak to them sensibly
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    It is super anomalous financial behavior to seek out the highest cost funding though.
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    Not really a paper, but a frozen-in-time glimpse of how the author viewed the history of private money as-of right before the crypto craze.
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    Private Money – Cleveland Fed paper, 2007(clevelandfed.org)

    1 points by MrMan 6y ago|1 comments
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    might makes right
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    At current prices why do they care if it's cheap? Coal seems to make sense for a bitcoin miner
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    Then bitcoin miners will buy the old coal plants and we are back to square one
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    Bitcoin is making coal economical whereas a year ago coal was on the way out because it was not cheaper than wind and solar. So we are headed backwards. Very frightening
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    I do all that
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    So if something really harmful speaks volumes that is ok?
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    Offering crypto trading is a stretch for an established exchange? ICE and CME already have some crypto but not much yet.
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    For what other exchange of futures or FX is the sky the limit?
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    Is privacy feasible?
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    I think it is good for criminals to have a separate system like monero. Then law enforcement and intelligence can attack it without worries about disrupting the legitimate system.
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    Private schools are definitely at the core of the problem.
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    Me too, several different High and very low end laptops using mint, mostly flawless except one issue with wifi
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    I switched to all Linux in my house a few years ago, it is a simpler and better existence overall. My kids laptops are mint, my wife is the only holdout on Mac. Mac is not bad, but for me it doesn’t have a lot of advantages and has a lot of
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    Why does defi imply higher interest rates?
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    If you hold a basket of currencies this can be traded as an instrument. There is a long standing proposal for example to speed the adoption of a multi-currency basket as kind of a forced substitution of the dollar as global reserve currency
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    by MrMan 6y ago

    And indeed all those structures provide the support system for crypto itself. It is not outside the existing system. The rhetoric makes it seem like an independent and autonomous system but it is part of the existing technical and financial