andirk

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by andirk 8d ago
Compare to stonks or precious metals and it's a similar, mostly unknowing situation.
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by andirk 8d ago
I moved some BTC from Coinbase today, which is a pricier option, and they took a house rake of 1.8%. Other moves cost way way less, especially if not in a hurry and the network isn't busy. My situation compares to a remittances transfe
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by andirk 9d ago
> but ran companies that were just casinos and actually could have simpler operations without the crypto parts Creating a product for the sake of using a technology is a flawed order of operations. However, the glitz and glamour of a new
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by andirk 9d ago
What is a proprietary crop?
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by andirk 27d ago
TLDR it wasn't tied to the fishing rod like a lure. That's what I was hoping.
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by andirk 1mo ago
Or that people commonly make their purchases via corporations. "Issued" can mean a lot of things.
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by andirk 1mo ago
You already stated what is wrong with you. Should be interesting to see the final mastication.
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by andirk 2mo ago
"Developed by Iran’s Ministry of Economy, it accepts payment in Bitcoin and other digital assets as part of the regime’s attempts to bypass Western sanctions." The one mention of bitcoin.
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by andirk 4mo ago
HN is very, very bitter about being there at the beginning of an interesting, fun, and promising technology that could have easily enriched them. Bitcoin and crypto is very on topic, but pricing not so much.
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by andirk 4mo ago
My understanding: As rstuart4133 mentioned, the rules were changed to 1) allow a partial IPO, 2) forego proving several positive quarters beforehand, 3) allow weird as hell lockout rules such as pre-IPOers to exit after 1 day. Maybe it&#x27
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by andirk 4mo ago
I think they're selling because they're raising money for dividends and such. The word "quantum" isn't even mentioned in the article, nor has anything to do with MSTR selling btc.
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by andirk 4mo ago
There is no singular mind to bitcoin. Watch CNBC for 1 week and you will see stonks trade a 40x their worth and rise and fall for no reason anyone knows. It's not that much different than assets that are traded on speculation far more
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by andirk 4mo ago
Being "a" player in a multi-billion $ industry is also pretty good. For example, Bing gets some small % of the search engine market, but that's still a ton of market and $. And Foursquare/Swarm is used by like 0.01% of t
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by andirk 4mo ago
The BTC was worth some 500 large quid when it got tossed. Claude will tell him to be more careful of all of his belongings. I personally have every hard drive I've ever owned, but this guy insisted on throwing that one in the "tip
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by andirk 5mo ago
Ver cool! Except FYI that it started crashing my browser before I had to run away. My specs: - Brave browser - Tons of tabs open - Macbook Pro Intel chip
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by andirk 5mo ago
Currency is the most useful when it changes hands constantly. I have mattresses. You have cookies. He has milk. I buy cookies and milk. You buy milk and mattresses. He buys mattresses and cookies. That's better than all of us in a stan
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by andirk 5mo ago
The article states it's just a fork, AKA a separate coin that copy/pastes the current Bitcoin ledger. Even if every dev wants this, that is a "hard fork" (not backwards compatible), and creates a new version of the coin.
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by andirk 5mo ago
Headline should read: "Person wants to create a Bitcoin fork, like has been done many times, and does nothing to the original Bitcoin ledger" And his company's tagline is "Make every transaction a Bitcoin txn." Make
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by andirk 5mo ago
Heck no. There was this app "Bump" that exchanged info between 2 bumping phones. Google bought it and immediately buried it forever. There's ZERO reason exchanging info is still a chore. There are currently bumping features b
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by andirk 5mo ago
Very cool! If not for the $, for the fun. And you met your on OkCupid, so you can be the cupid this time. - Make a blog about this on the domain. I'll follow! - What do the logs say re: traffic? I see lots of links to the domain from
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by andirk 5mo ago
Value is in the eye of the beholder, as you clearly understand. The commenter is not familiar with how trade works. Personally, for such I transaction I will need to audit to ensure the projected value is accurate. Also, do you have a sampl
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by andirk 5mo ago
There was stated value on both ends of the potential transaction. And this is Hacker News, not 4chan or Twitter. Comments are for insight, discussion, etc. But maybe you're just young or not very bright.
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by andirk 5mo ago
The link could use a blog article with a tagline and a TLDR and use cases. It _sounds_ like a great idea nonetheless.
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by andirk 5mo ago
The feature of a deflationary currency is much better than constant money printing. But, as I have learned through light studying of currencies, a huge negative aspect is its encouragement to horde.
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by andirk 5mo ago
I spend my BTC occasionally on my degenerate sports gambling, and then I return some of the winnings back into BTC. I also rarely spend my stonks.
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by andirk 5mo ago
Can I get a TLDR?
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by andirk 5mo ago
Someone tell Pearl Jam's Eddy Vedder his work to fight Ticketmaster some 30 years ago finally came to a head today. > Ticketmaster sells about 10 times as many tickets as its closest rival, AEG. Yeah, that's called a monopoly,
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by andirk 6mo ago
I find the best use of chatbots re: software engineering is more of an office hours with the professor than it is a fellow colleague; Use it for specifics. Throwing things over the fence to it often causes a reach into the bag of garbage sp
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by andirk 6mo ago
Haha. My favorite shillings will always be NFTs and the "let's do email job pointless meetings in Second Life and call it Metaverse". Although the former is/was pure shilling, and the latter is/was a horrible pipe d
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by andirk 6mo ago
A Machine Learning + Large Language model is one popular technology. Decentralized blockchain tokens is another popular technology. Besides hype, there's not much in common with those technologies.

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