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by Vadoff 5y ago
People have created btc2, btc3, times a thousand. Look at all the altcoins out there. Yet all the clones of bitcoin are worthless because it's a direct copy of the protocol or with minor alterations (it's akin to trying to convinc
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by Vadoff 5y ago
If one person owned all the land in the world, we also wouldn't accept it.
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by Vadoff 5y ago
Too bad all those solutions aren't truly decentralized.
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by Vadoff 5y ago
So why doesn't Lightning work exactly? Jack Mallers who convinced El Savador's president to make Bitcoin legal tender works on Lightning app.
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by Vadoff 5y ago
I never understood why someone would live over an hour away from where they work. There's been numerous studies showing the number one cause of unhappiness/dissatisfaction at work is commute time, especially when it reaches over 4
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by Vadoff 5y ago
Criminal? Maybe in 2013 Silk Road days. There's a ridiculous amount of volume on Bitcoin and it's mostly moving to and from exchanges. There's no way a majority of those are illegal.
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by Vadoff 5y ago
Feels extremely easy to do if a company like Valve or Discord creates an API and allows companies to use it. Not really sure why it would need to be decentralized.
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by Vadoff 5y ago
>If you weigh this against spending an extra hour or two commuting, then it looks like a lousy bargain. How about if your commute is <20 minutes one way?
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by Vadoff 5y ago
I personally love choice. But maybe for people like you, a service that curates some of the top choices and offers that as limited pool could be a useful.
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by Vadoff 5y ago
Nope, NFTs are for claiming that you own the “original” digital work. It doesn’t prevent people from copying and sharing it.
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by Vadoff 5y ago
Probably because if you're homeless and sleep outside during the winter in NYC you'll die.
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by Vadoff 5y ago
72 million ethers were given to early investors/developers/Vitalik at launch.
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by Vadoff 5y ago
So Ethereum is better because it's deflationary, and proof of stake in which the rich get richer? Both of those are terrible. The reason why no one trusts Ethereum as a proper store of value is because it's not very decentralized,
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by Vadoff 5y ago
How many self made billionaires came from “forced entrepreneurship”? Doesn’t feel like many, maybe even closer to none.
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by Vadoff 5y ago
Don't forget the halvening every 4 years reduces the block reward for mining by half.
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by Vadoff 5y ago
What if a government required Ethereum traders to pay taxes in Ethereum, then kept and staked it, thus increasing their Ethereum even more. Wouldn't that government eventually gain complete control of governance in Ethereum?
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by Vadoff 5y ago
It goes into the pockets of other companies who lobbied for it, that's one reason why our military spending is so high.
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by Vadoff 5y ago
This isn't fraud, murder, or rape though - it's optimizing tax expenditure to the legal limit, which the government was fine with. If you want people to pay more taxes, increase the legal amount that they need to pay. This may mea
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by Vadoff 5y ago
I feel a lot of monopolies are happening now because of network effects, not as much due to anti-competitive practices.
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by Vadoff 5y ago
Why did you do it before?
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by Vadoff 5y ago
For a company with 1000 people, if even 100 of them are great engineers, they could easily complete any project Coca Cola would want in reasonable time.
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by Vadoff 5y ago
Updated at 1.17am IST, Thursday: Facebook comms Andy Stone said the company has restored the posts and is “looking into what happened.”
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by Vadoff 6y ago
Probably implied that it extends to the ancestors of humans.
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by Vadoff 6y ago
Yeah it's called a joke...
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by Vadoff 6y ago
Lol, who cares about Bitcoin? Every bank account and every website will be able to be able to be hacked.
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by Vadoff 6y ago
If those robots were self-replicating, maybe.
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by Vadoff 6y ago
How come the clean reference wav file is 168KB, while the clean Lyra (@3kbps) wav file is significantly larger at 328KB?
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by Vadoff 6y ago
They locked my account with no explanation for over 2 months now. Customer support has been extremely slow to respond, and they said they would hold a security interview in 1-2 business days to have my account unlocked... this was 5 weeks a
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by Vadoff 6y ago
Yup, it's been almost two months since I've originally messaged support about being unable to access my account. They said they would schedule a security interview, then never followed through. I don't know how it's lega
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by Vadoff 6y ago
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