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by askmike 7y ago
No that's not the same at all. A stolen bitcoin is a real bitcoin. A fake dollar is not a real dollar.
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by askmike 7y ago
> But it's a bit like saying "I don't do business with Iran." Some countries do, others don't. Almost all countries follow the US imposed sanctions against Iran. If you don't it will be very hard to do busin
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by askmike 7y ago
I think we're kind of on the same line. > It was designed to solve the problems people were having cashing out from exchanges. Tether technically predates the legal trouble between Wells Fargo and Bitfinex, but imo Tether as we know
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by askmike 7y ago
> Their original proposition was that you could buy and sell tether from them at exactly 1 USD. That depends on who "you" is, as far as I know this was possible for retail until a few years back. But I wouldn't say it was
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by askmike 7y ago
> Now they never actually delivered any of that. Yes they did, they delivered exactly this for years, ever since US banks shut them down. A whole ecosystem was built on top of this which to this day seems to run smooth (poloniex, bittrex
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by askmike 7y ago
You can definitely use Kraken's market to arb: - buy BTC with your USD on Coinbase Pro. - sell your BTC into USDT on Binance. - Sell your USDT back into USD on Kraken. It really doesn't matter if the last step is 1:1 or another ra
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by askmike 7y ago
I don't think many people assume it to be this binary: if Tether doesn't have have dollars behind every USDT. Buying USDT below $1 is simply buying debt. If you believe they will at some point in the future be able to give you a d
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by askmike 7y ago
Not really no, it depends on how much liquidity of a certain type is worth compared to liquidity of another type. Given the volatility in crypto markets this tends to change drastically in different times. Same as why lending rates for cryp
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by askmike 7y ago
You are right, but it's a tiny market though.
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by askmike 7y ago
You mean Kraken? There are many OTC lending markets that allow for tether shorting.
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by askmike 7y ago
If USDT would go to 0 instantly many things would happen (a few of the biggest BTC fiat markets would not be able to operate, such as binance's main BTC market). As a practical example big traders would obviously sell their tether stra
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by askmike 7y ago
Definitely, all traffic is readable by CloudFlare. Whereas if you have your own SSL certs everything going through the "normal internet infrastructure" is encrypted (in theory your webhost is able to get to it, but definitely not
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by askmike 7y ago
Given that he: > I wrote a blog post on this recently, using only open-source tools that don't come from big corps. I doubt he wants to use CloudFlare ;)
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by askmike 7y ago
It only makes the job of intelligence agencies easier, a tiny part of an government. And one that wouldn't play any role in intervening in a company like proposed.
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by askmike 7y ago
Well, not much is changing after these kind of fines. > A quick Google indicates Facebook may end up paying 1.6 billion to the EU. A slap on the wrist, Facebook had 8 billion in revenue Q1 2019. But first let's see if they actually
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by askmike 7y ago
While in the video he's updating the location hash (which breaks the backbutton), one can implement this using history.replaceState[1] to keep the back button working normally. He also mentions parsing the animated URL the figure out h
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by askmike 8y ago
Though given his situation and the quite likely extradition to the US, who wouldn't have done the same? Technically something criminal but..
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by askmike 8y ago
Not at all? It is in my country (the Netherlands) in some circumstances, for example if you are of a certain religion and there is no school within x kilometers that satisfies your religious requirements.
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by askmike 8y ago
You must have fun hobbies.
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by askmike 8y ago
In my country too, I think cbg0 is referring to homeschooling these kids instead.
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by askmike 8y ago
Can someone fill me in on why I'm getting downvoted?
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by askmike 8y ago
It took me half a day: Had to download a GDPR pivacy policy template, read through the thing. Double check all the sections applied to what I was doing (cookies, etc) and fill in my details. What have you spend 1 year doing if I may ask? D
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by askmike 8y ago
> Some things are hard to change in Linux too, but I am sure for different reasons that are the result of how they pile on top of each other. The problem isn't technical debt. It would be a company making billions on something that&
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by askmike 8y ago
It applies to everyone who wants to serve EU customers. As for startups: depending on what kind of personal data you are collecting, being GDPR complicit shouldn't take more than a day. If it takes longer you are building a business ar
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by askmike 8y ago
The blind leading the blind? Most conferences have lineups of well respected people involved in an ecosystem. From language authors to open source maintainers and such. It seems you don't seem to understand the purpose of conferences a
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by askmike 8y ago
Yes, so he turned out to be Korean. But I still don't know what it has to do with the fact he was American as well?
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by askmike 8y ago
Citizenship is not about consent. There might be situations where you can out of yours, but I don't think that means that everyone else consents. That said I don't agree with how it works.
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by askmike 8y ago
Unfortunate sequence of events: he turned out to be a Korean citizen which was the cause. As such I really don't understand the title of the post. The fact he was an American citizen had nothing to do with it. He might as well have bee
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by askmike 8y ago
Fair enough, especially if you account for the discovery (a form of marketing I guess). Within that scope I agree with you.
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by askmike 8y ago
On that scale I doubt you pay the same as your average Shopify webshop.

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