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721.
by VMG 9y ago
I am aware of this, what I meant was a limit on hashrate
722.
by VMG 9y ago
My best hope is that there will be some kind of OPEC cartel that agrees to limit production. The members could have unused reserves of mining hardware that ramps up when somebody violates the agreement.
723.
by VMG 9y ago
I love it when the Bitcoin QR code is just right there. Donated 10mbtc
724.
by VMG 9y ago
Depends on who you think will adopt it after you.
725.
by VMG 9y ago
I was hoping for more than just wild assertions.
726.
by VMG 9y ago
Unfortunately we just cannot explore the counterfactual and just have to do post hoc ergo procter hoc . No matter how big the private sector investment is, there will be some Government investment as well. That is enough to question whethe
727.
by VMG 9y ago
Are you saying large airplanes have a negative ROI?
728.
by VMG 9y ago
> There would be 0 large planes in the sky if governments were not involved. There would be as many as the market demands
729.
by VMG 9y ago
My answer is no, simply because even the definition of "speculator" is unclear.
730.
by VMG 9y ago
1) Here is a list https://99bitcoins.com/who-accepts-bitcoins-payment-companie... -- a lot of stores indirectly accept bitcoin via payment providers like bitpay.com, but I could not find a list. 2) Hard to tell because of (
731.
by VMG 9y ago
Gold is a 6000 year old bubble: https://www.coindesk.com/citi-chief-economist-bitcoin-closes...
732.
by VMG 9y ago
Illegal things are real. Real money is in your control, money on an account not necessarily.
733.
by VMG 9y ago
If only you could still recognize it as a transformation when it is inline
734.
by VMG 9y ago
https://github.com/sindresorhus/devtools-detect
735.
by VMG 9y ago
Sorry, I was thinking of https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair (probably because of the letters a c q) Channel monitoring will be outsourced. I did not claim everything was finished, but it is far from pie-in-the-sky. Off-ch
736.
by VMG 9y ago
> With these characteristics, nobody will ever want to use it as a payment method. People have used gold as a payment method for millenia. If holding bitcoin is as attractive as you say it is, businesses will give discounts for bitcoin p
737.
by VMG 9y ago
> [..] there is no 'payment layer' on top of it, only pie-in-the-sky designs. That is completely false. Development of Lightning Network and other solutions by multiple teams has been steady and robust. To cite a few working on
738.
by VMG 9y ago
When looking at HSBC, corrupt rating agencies, Equifax etc, may I ask what the "real" banking sector has learned?
739.
by VMG 9y ago
Is there a good description somewhere of how to use new methods like Object.freeze, Object.defineProperty etc?
740.
by VMG 9y ago
how likely is it that npm and other package managers that do not use digital signatures by default are unaffected?
741.
by VMG 9y ago
let us keep in mind that these balances can be inflated by the final recipients
742.
by VMG 9y ago
Only when these rules come into conflict. People can have different preferences, include preferences about with whom to associate or not. Allowing for that is a necessity for living in a free society.
743.
by VMG 9y ago
Just as in Knight Rider! https://knightriderhistorians.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-fate-...
744.
by VMG 9y ago
Aaaand the story is pushed down: https://i.imgur.com/TTTvpPy.png
745.
by VMG 9y ago
That is an unusual definition of "monopoly"
746.
by VMG 9y ago
> They have already built out IPFS -- a popular decentralized file sharing protocol. How popular? Who uses it?
747.
by VMG 9y ago
Unlikely. Have not seen it for other types of grid damage.
748.
by VMG 9y ago
How would you compare it to python?
749.
by VMG 9y ago
> but it seems that everyone is trying to kill it off nowadays. What do you mean?
750.
by VMG 9y ago
Let's make it easier: how many of the transactions in the most recent block (as of writing) can be tied to individuals? https://blockchain.info/block/0000000000000000005d8e91c8b1b3...

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