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by aazaa 5y ago
> “As with cash transactions, businesses that receive cryptoassets with a fair-market value of more than $10,000 would also be reported on,” the Treasury Department said in a report on tax-enforcement proposals released Thursday. Nothing
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> Note how this is different than buying a company’s stock. People buy and sell stocks on a stock exchange, but the companies independently have money coming in (from their clients). The stock of a profitable company is a positive-sum ec
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The point of Bitcoin is that the world's governments have weaponized money. If all you pay attention to is the ups and downs of the exchange rate, then it all probably seems pretty pointless. But if you look at it against the backdrop
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Ingredients for a Bitcoin correction: - a recent steep increase in exchange rate - heavy mainstream media coverage - announcement from China - outages at one or more exchanges As the article shows, all of these factors are present now. Thos
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> Global stocks slipped and cryptocurrencies sank deeper on Wednesday as a threat of unwanted inflation had investors shy away from assets seen as vulnerable to any removal of monetary stimulus. The full title of this article is worth no
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> Arguably the most-asked-about missing feature coming from object-oriented languages is inheritance. Why wouldn’t Rust let a struct inherit from another? This concern faded away as I used Rust a lot. It turns out that inheritance of imp
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> P.S. Initial impressions of rust-analyzer are that it’s very good and I never want to do Rust development again without it. It is very good. The VS Code extension improves on the RLS extension in almost every way.
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> The crime gang announced it was closing up shop after its servers were seized and someone drained the cryptocurrency from an account the group uses to pay affiliates. If so, this is either: 1. one heckuva Mickey Mouse operation 2. a sm
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> Once they received the payment, the hackers provided the operator with a decrypting tool to restore its disabled computer network. The tool was so slow that the company continued using its own backups to help restore the system, one of
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> Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin. The real reason is likely to be that few, if any, cars were bought with bitcoin. This has been a recurring theme throughout Bitcoin's history that's played out hundreds of
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> ... Over the course of the next several months, we’ll be migrating the underlying technical implementation of Docs from the current HTML-based rendering approach to a canvas-based approach to improve performance and improve consistency
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Company Is Hiring Writers to Produce Serialized Fiction (2020)(medium.com)
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> Trump’s new blog has attracted a little over 212,000 engagements, defined as backlinks and social interactions — including likes, shares and comments — received across Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Reddit. Before the ban, a single T
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Or... crypto and the commodities have it backward. The gold market is right. Prepare for the opposite of what the media are hyperventilating about now - a ridiculously strong dollar and deflation.
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> Inflation: During periods of moderate to high inflation, gold and commodities tend to do extremely well. Equities outperform bonds more often than not, but it depends on the type of equities and their starting valuations, and therefore
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As an intern I once attended an internal Innovation Symposium hosted by the company I was working for. Most of the speakers talked in glowing terms about innovation, how good it was, and how welcomed it was. But one speaker didn't. He
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> ... There exists, therefore, an obvious discrepancy between the libertarian vision of Bitcoin as a decentralised infrastructure that cannot be regulated by any third party institution, and the actual governance structure that dictates
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The charge was money laundering, according to the article - not tax evasion.
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Somewhere out there is a series of future events in which the prolonged gyrations of the Dogecoin exchange rate trigger a global financial crisis.
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> Now the IRS says it has finally identified the Russian-Swedish administrator behind that long-running anonymizing system and charged him with laundering hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins, much of which was sent to or fr
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> "We have four positions open," Christy Welch, the co-owner of Black Cat Bake Shop, told the Missoulian. "One is for a barista. We've gotten maybe three to four applications for that job, when we would usually get 20
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Aging Hanford tank is leaking radioactive waste into the ground, feds say(tri-cityherald.com)
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Where do you get that, because this article says otherwise: > Millennials are less likely to be homeowners than baby boomers and Gen Xers. The homeownership rate among millennials ages 25 to 34 is 8 percentage points lower than baby boom
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> Some builders have said they are slowing production in the face of exorbitant costs, but single-family housing starts were up 41% in March year over year, according to the U.S. Census. Builders are clearly trying to ramp up production
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Looks like it was scrubbed.
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Yes, he has a point. Just treading water with respect to inflation triggers a tax bill. I doubt the cap gains calculation will ever tax real gains rather than nominal gains.
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The Anatomy of a Thousand Typefaces (2017)(medium.com)
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Exchanges are the low-hanging fruit for attempts to "ban" cryptocurrencies. This well-known pressure point has been used for years now. There's nothing new in that sense. What isn't well appreciated is just how difficult
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> What has made the auto industry particularly vulnerable is its reliance on just-in-time delivery, where parts are brought in when needed, rather than being stockpiled. It's fascinating that the response is to close production rath
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This article totally neglects the alarm bells blaring in late 2019/early 2020. The Fed lost control of an obscure but crucial corner of the bond market (the repo market), slinked away from Quantitative Tightening with its tail between

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