MusaTheRedGuard

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The ETH2 Vision(ethereum.org)
1 points by MusaTheRedGuard 6y ago|0 comments
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What Is Eth.build?(youtube.com)
2 points by MusaTheRedGuard 6y ago|0 comments
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AVC: USDC(avc.com)
2 points by MusaTheRedGuard 7y ago|0 comments
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Living on DeFi: How an Argentinean Crypto Enthusiast Survives 50% Inflation(slideslive.com)
1 points by MusaTheRedGuard 7y ago|0 comments
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by MusaTheRedGuard 7y ago
Yep. Most smart people, even the most diehard fans, knew tether was at the very least, extremely shady.
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
Forking is not a problem. It's users voting with their feet. The possibility of forking is a necessary deterrent in cryptonetwork governance. If the maintainers of a network become compromised or get coopted by special interests, the c
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
> you can only commit to a given supply curve, but you cannot adjust it according to the state of the economy. Why do you think this? Ethereum has changed its inflation schedule a few times recently. It seems you are basing this on the h
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
What do you think decentralized finance even is?
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
Just gonna leave this here: https://app.veil.co/market/will-2020-presidential-candidate-... Also interesting to mention the crossover between Yang supporters and the crypto community: https://breakermag.com&
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
At this point, I find it hard to take mainstream journalist's criticism of bitcoin seriously unless the criticizers agree on what they're criticizing. Bitcoin isn't exchanges or "crypto" or "blockchain" or
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
Bitcoin is not an exchange. That's like saying the economy is screwed up because a company went bankrupt.
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
This entire thread: "Why don't you just use the post office why do you need email?"
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
Or a jurisdiction which has rules that you can't or choose not to comply with
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
And I'm saying illegality is not the only usecase, though it is definitely a valuable and useful one. In case it wasn't clear, the usecases i mentioned above (gambling, getting around capital controls) exist and are live in crypto
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
Anyone can call themselves a "blockchain enthusiast" that doesn't mean they're smart or know what they're doing. Examples of good thinkers are the guys over at multicoin capital, a crypto focused hedge fund: https:
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
First of all, no. Global, trustless coordination is a hard problem and is not necessarily illegal. Second, legality is subjective around the world. It is currently illegal in the US to gamble online, for some reason, even though casinos and
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
Most people who are even a little bit serious about working/investing in crypto, are well aware of this and have been saying this for the past few years. Inb4 "you're not investing, you're speculating/gambling"
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
It's been pretty telling to watch sentiment on HN towards crypto slowly shift from complete disgust to mild curiousity
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
Peer to peer censorship resistant electronic cash. Moving value on the internet without a potentially compromised central party
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
Yeah definitely doesn't square with my experience. My first 3 years as a software engineer was filled with late nights at the office, horrendous office politics and an extreme amount of stress. Got so bad I started to get random heart
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
This honestly makes me sad. I really did think google was different
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
Decentralization. Anyone can run their own node of the software making it resistant to censorship, malicious control by the devs themselves or a third party. Augur.casino runs their own node of Augur but runs it on IPFS, allowing others to
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
Multiple ways to short ETH, as mentioned by another user. Including on augur itself! See: https://augur-cfd.com
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
You don't have to download an app to interact with augur: augur.casino Built on top of IPFS
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
Total Money at Stake: $1,155,706.38 From predictions.global
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
Sigh. Copying my comment from below: Please note that an "active user" is an active address( i.e one that has made a bet on the platform) in the past day. This doesn't take into account users that made a bet in the past( most
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
Please note that an "active user" is an active address( i.e one that has made a bet on the platform) in the past day. This doesn't take into account users that made a bet in the past( most bets have long term horizons, >4
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
See this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Augur/comments/97di7x/is_there_a_wa...
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
Lol gambling/speculation might be one of the few places blockchain has product market fit
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by MusaTheRedGuard 8y ago
The writing style is a stylistic choice. I like it

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