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by QML 9y ago
Is there now a cheaper alternative towards wiring money?
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by QML 9y ago
Is this for Bitcoin or for Ethereum? I thought the former has UTXOs and the latter has accounts. So the issue is, if you want to validate a transaction, I would have to find the block in which the input was made, and confirm all the blocks
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by QML 9y ago
Unsolved mathematics? Can you elaborate what you mean?
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by QML 9y ago
Someone help me with this, but why do people need the full history of the Ethereum blockchain? Shouldn't having a few of the last valid blocks be enough?
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by QML 9y ago
I don’t know about others, but I’m interested in the large cogs that move the world. Maybe it’s because I’m looking for problems, or wondering how the status quo came to be. For example, why does it cost $30 for a wire transfer? And why is
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by QML 9y ago
Do you know if there’s anyway to create integration tests via Solidity / without learning JavaScript?
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by QML 9y ago
I think Quanta had an article about that too: https://www.quantamagazine.org/puzzle-solution-are-genes-sel... Without genetic diversity, no source of mutation, no evolution. Hence why non-selfish genes still exist.
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by QML 9y ago
Isn’t blockchain just a type of data structure?
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by QML 9y ago
Speaking of charities, are most of them transparent and accountable with the funds they receive? I’d like to see a ledger of where every cent given to charity was used / spent.
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by QML 9y ago
The first question you shouldn’t be asking is how to have an ICO, but why do you NEED an ICO? What’s the role of tokens in your idea? Otherwise you’re just buying into the hype that is blockchain.
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by QML 9y ago
Do stores really have to be physical anymore? I think that’s what is holding Target back.
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So TL;DR the market isn’t as efficient as most would believe it is. That makes sense since the market is ran by humans; but what if it was solely managed by a computer. While reviewing for a final, I learned that computers are extremely fas
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by QML 9y ago
A movement against banks... and yet the latest increase in price is due to spectulation about how investment banks will start selling Bitcoin futures — how ironic.
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by QML 9y ago
Depends on the search algorithm; if it can be parallelized, then modify the algorithm to take advantages of multiple CPUs. If not, then start throwing more threads at it. In Bitcoin’s case, I don’t think we have a lack of CPUs though.
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by QML 9y ago
I agree: we need a faster settlement layer independent of how much the currency itself is worth; but let’s say we have have that network? How do taxes work? Everytime you transfer or pay for anything? That’s not going to work.
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But that was the original goal of Bitcoin — the paper states specifically transaxtions. I personally found it interesting when I bought shoes over Overstock via BTC earlier this year; only problem was my phone didn’t have a default QR scann
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by QML 9y ago
Perhaps these newer hedge funds just want to give off the perception that they know what they’re doing — I’m more sure about a company like RenTech since they have been through a recession and market crash, and has still come up net positiv
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by QML 9y ago
Wouldn’t it be easier to create an incentive for customers to directly give you data about where they shop? Like make an app that pulls up coupons specifically for Walmart..
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by QML 9y ago
Additional article of how “decentralized” cryptocurrency is: https://news.earn.com/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c...
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by QML 9y ago
How many 9s do you think Coinbase has? 2 9s, or 99% uptime? Or is it worse than that?
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by QML 9y ago
Perhaps the true mission of IOTA is to provide the largest bug bounty for a cryptographic hash function ever?
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by QML 9y ago
Is that a rhetorical question — majority of new money coming in is all spectualation, no actual faith in the product; how do you tell? They all convert back to fiat after convincing themselves they sold to a greater fool.
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by QML 9y ago
This is a weird rule of thumb but I don’t trust anyone or any team in the cryptocurrency space who doesn’t have a technical background from a top university. When the noise is high, I need a better signal.
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by QML 9y ago
> instead of four years doing something hate for a useless degree they'll never use I think this comment here points to the issue of colleges -- most people have no clue what major they want to be or what type of career they want to
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by QML 9y ago
You're close, since fungibility affects spendability. In terms of currency, fungibility essentially means that money of the same denomination is indistinguishable. So if I had a $5 bill that I got from a marijuana dispensary, and anoth
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by QML 9y ago
1. It's more of a coastal thing it seems than a trend of the West (I say that jokingly). 2. Is it capitalism that leads to centralization, or the lack of it? I suppose it's how you define the term -- is it a passive accumulation o
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by QML 9y ago
How would a Bay Area tech company then compete with the like of Google of Facebook for top-talent then? It would be nearly impossible for most companies to match the compensation of the Big 4. The influx and concentration of wealth by those
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by QML 9y ago
Is centralization of resources really needed for a thriving economy though? Germany begs to differ [1]. [1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/secrets-german-economy-steal...
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Imagine if Big Capital started investing in cities instead of companies. That would be a nice thought. Property would be the new stock; hostile takeovers would be fights over the city-government board. Investors would profit when they manag
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Hmm, a comment from someone who just learned about Huffman encoding and had a project on text classification -- it seems that the majority of commonly-written or spoken English words are terrible for conveying semantics; words like "th

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