Rmilb

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by Rmilb 10y ago
I think the perception that all Bitcoin advocates think that Bitcoin will "Destroy" all fiat money and we will all be worshiping Satoshi for delivering us, is wide spread and mostly false.
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by Rmilb 10y ago
You make a good point, however I'd like to point out that explaining how money is created through the federal reserve system is no less complicated to the average person. They don't need to understand it, only trust it.
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by Rmilb 10y ago
>1. The few companies that accepted it are gradually stoping to support it (Microsoft for instance). Microsoft still accepts it. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/14/microsoft-stops-accepting-bit... Bitcoin&#x2
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by Rmilb 10y ago
I don't buy "scratch-off ticket" analogy. How are those crates with randomized prizes different from a pack of pokemon cards that are randomized with cards with differing value? They are pretty identical in the terms we are t
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by Rmilb 10y ago
Would the funds still be held if he was sending the money to reimburse a fiend to one of the many businesses with "Isis", in its name? http://www.businessinsider.com/companies-with-the-name-isis-...
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by Rmilb 11y ago
I use Glympse on Android and this works well with my Iphone carrying friends. What advantages do you have over glympse? I am not affiliated with Glympse, I am just a big fan of their product. https://glympse.com/
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by Rmilb 11y ago
It's on their road map.
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by Rmilb 11y ago
Love the simplicity. Do you have Screencast functionality on your road map?
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by Rmilb 11y ago
Does anyone have a mirror? I'm seeing an Azure message that the "app is stopped".
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by Rmilb 11y ago
Too bad ripple was premined. They are seeing some success as end points with banks though.
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by Rmilb 11y ago
Side chains, lightning network, and other off-chain transactions can solve this problem.
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by Rmilb 11y ago
ie, Mandate of Heaven. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven
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by Rmilb 11y ago
Why is this the year for the 51% attack? I'll take a shot in the dark and assume this is post block reward halving? Followup, will the attacker be a nation state actor or not?
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by Rmilb 11y ago
>Uber says that if you have enough VC funding, you can make lawbreaking and regulatory blindness a central pillar of a billion-dollar company. Welcome to America.
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by Rmilb 11y ago
Tons of profitable companies still run on a lot of paper. I worked at an insurance company where the head of the most profitable division (earth quake) that actively discouraged the Idea of moving huge insurance contracts to digital. Anecdo
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by Rmilb 11y ago
What advantages does the Yuan have over the USD? I think the next generation will value the transparency and predictability of issuance of a crypto currency similar to bitcoin has far greater advantages. Which doesn't mean that central
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by Rmilb 11y ago
> If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. This still rings very true to this day.
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by Rmilb 11y ago
This is very interesting. Right now Hedgy is the only option for a trusted third party oracle though. I'm not sure if this is a "real" smart contract... They are just a legal notary service and oracle for prices right now. Co
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by Rmilb 11y ago
The CIA(1), and other Fortune 500 Companies have internal prediction markets that work quite well. However, internal politics inside of the organization sometimes spell the death of those markets. This is more good data that gives me more f
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by Rmilb 11y ago
>It’s incumbent on anyone creating a new network of any kind not just to avoid using it yourself for criminal purposes, but to design it so that it’s not useful for criminal purposes. What happens when your point of view is "crimina
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by Rmilb 11y ago
Previous HN discussion 3 months ago with some good gems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799631
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by Rmilb 11y ago
Fascinating. This MircoRisk Insurance market is closer than most people think. If Ethereum[1] and Augur[2] are successful(a big if), then these types of mirco insurance contracts are just around the corner. The possibilities seem endless if
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by Rmilb 11y ago
I tried to find this article and couldn't. Could you point me to it please? I'm interested in it because I'm in the middle of building a Tiny house my self.
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by Rmilb 11y ago
I'm building one right now. It's going to be about 20k when I am finished. https://goo.gl/photos/dPnx7jttphUvQXcj8
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by Rmilb 11y ago
In Africa, Bitpesa is doing a great job of commerce over sms[1]. A third of Kenya's GDP flows through Bitpesa[2]. With people more people having access to a cell phone than proper sanitation[3]; commerce over text will increase faster
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by Rmilb 11y ago
>If people foresee the bubble, why do they participate in it? Why aren't the on the "short" side? From John Maynard Keynes himself, "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
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by Rmilb 11y ago
The head of Fincen ((Financial Crimes Enforcement Network)The US agency that goes after money laundering) has said that it is still easier to launder US dollars. [1] 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments&#x2
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by Rmilb 11y ago
>I have a box of foreign money at home which I use every time I am abroad. I bet most people have something like it. If I were to trust you on this, I'd have to record the price of that currency with every cup of coffee in every air
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by Rmilb 11y ago
Uber uses Braintree for payment processing[1]. Braintree already has integration with Coinbase[2]. I assume that bitcoin transfers being push (instead of pull like credit cards) is the reason they haven't activated it. 1. https:/
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by Rmilb 11y ago
Blog is in progress right now.

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