ashwagary

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by ashwagary 5y ago
This is mostly only true with international travel.
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by ashwagary 5y ago
>You don't want your car to be covered in heavy armour. That gains you nothing and costs you a lot. Heavy armour gets you protection from firearms and some explosives. I wouldn't call that nothing. *I know high value individual
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by ashwagary 5y ago
>Your reply reads like a 'complete agreement' rather than a disagreement Wrong, there have been a few soft forks already. You seem to not know the history of bitcoin or what makes bitcoin bitcoin. You need to do some studying b
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by ashwagary 5y ago
People with high risk tolerance move in when everyone is afraid (catching the falling knife). Knowing enough to trust Bitcoin's antifragile support structure and game theory is a market edge during a blackswan scenario.
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by ashwagary 5y ago
Network effects are important but it is worth considering. Also worth considering what it would take for other large beneficiaries of network effects like Facebook, Apple, & Google to go to zero.
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by ashwagary 5y ago
So you think the chain will be attacked and all the devs with trillions invested (at that point in the future) will be completely blindsided and not defend the network by soft/hardforking/etc? I completely disagree.
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by ashwagary 5y ago
Fixed total supply vs unfixed (perishable) total supply. There is no legitimate comparison to be made as far as 'collectibles' are concerned.
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by ashwagary 5y ago
Because I know a large % of the supply will never be unlocked and I can own the remaining available supply at a reasonable price. This is not a hypothetical, I will buy the remaining supply given a steep enough discount. At $1 BTC, the tota
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by ashwagary 5y ago
Bitcoin will never go to zero. Why? There are too many billionaires that will buy the total available supply long before it can get to $0.
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by ashwagary 5y ago
Yes. Stopping the state from debasing your nestegg/savings using a banned money is a risk people will consider worth taking.
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by ashwagary 5y ago
>I think “woke” became pejorative because woke people refuse to debate Quite the opposite, the anti-woke are in the process of obstructing debate. In the US the response is the ruling class banning the teaching of certain parts of US his
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by ashwagary 5y ago
They may try but they will fail because CBDC's are inferior money when compared to undebasebable and private non state controlled alternatives.
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by ashwagary 5y ago
"Woke" was turned into a pejorative specifically in some of the most historically vile empires because the idea of the masses absorbing, confronting, and exposing unpropagandized history was too much of a risk for the ruling class
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by ashwagary 5y ago
Are there any examples of companies that hire for "diversity alone"? My understanding is that is not usually the case. Putting aside the fact that most occupations are not life or death (like in law enforcement)...A trend we see i
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by ashwagary 5y ago
Didn't they knowingly bomb weddings? Is he saying the US was surprised that innocent women and children were at weddings?
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by ashwagary 5y ago
There is a massive BTC to gift card market and I've heard zero problems from the regular users of such services. What additional scrutiny have you heard of relating to $100-$1000 gift cards that are purchased legally and traded p2p? Fr
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by ashwagary 5y ago
How would anyone know that you are in fact transacting BTC at all (especially if it's anonymized)? The risk seems almost nonexistent unless you are buying really expensive services on a regular basis.
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by ashwagary 5y ago
Adding 1 additional p2p hop to transactions is trivially easy with Bitcoin and readily automatable. With 1 additional hop, you facilitate somebody's purchase of bitcoin and they pay for the services you need in fiat (usually at a disco
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by ashwagary 5y ago
Gift cards are anonymous bridges between the fiat and crypto world. Anyone can buy a $1000 Amazon gift card or 1000+ other gift cards instantly with no KYC. Currently, buying gift cards using the lightning network is faster than buying gift
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by ashwagary 5y ago
Savings/store of value is a bigger use case than anything you mentioned. Not sure why critics have to be so disingenuous if they have a strong enough bear case.
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by ashwagary 5y ago
All the problems bitcoin solves are worth solving. Do you have a solution to help people paying 20-50% fees for remittances? Many here are comfortably banked and can't seem to put themselves in less privileged people's shoes.
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by ashwagary 5y ago
Some people relying on 2017 price peak news headlines haven't gotten the memo that fees only spiked temporarily. Fees are currently 5-10 cents to get in the next btc block and most lightning network transactions complete in 1-2 seconds