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by awt 8y ago
Btc value increased not due to scams - neither the scammers nor the scammed ever hold the stuff (that is, off an exchange in a secure wallet), but due to long term holders, to whom it will continue to be attractive until some state goes bac
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by awt 8y ago
What is the standard for virtuous use of energy?
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by awt 8y ago
Ok then how can you say that Bitcoin mining is wasteful? How can you be certain that it will not lead to massive productivity gains? What is the standard you are comparing Bitcoin to for resources required to enable censorship free paymen
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by awt 8y ago
Funny. HN users have about 922 downvotes on my comments left before they lose the chance to get an occasional clue.
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by awt 8y ago
You might want to re-consider your claim of my ignorance of history and maybe think if I might have a point, even though it opposes your opinion. Nevertheless, certainly you're not claiming the USG knew that expending X resources on t
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by awt 8y ago
As were computers. And the internet. It is not a given in any way that x amount of energy maps to productivity level y.
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by awt 8y ago
If it isn't too obvious to bring up, is it possible that we don't necessarily know for certain that using energy to mine Bitcoin is a waste? For example some may have considered manufacturing computers a waste of energy, but the
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by awt 9y ago
Also hacker news.
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by awt 9y ago
We are surely fortunate that the U.S. and Canadian settlers decimated the estimated 60 million head of buffalo ranging North America until the late 1800s. Global warming could have been exacerbated greatly by their continued existence.
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by awt 9y ago
> Your argument tries to set a trap for anyone responding, by forcing a debate on moral relativism. True. > If you think murder cannot be defined as "bad", then why have we outlawed it? The original comment has already been
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by awt 9y ago
If Bitcoin succeeds, it will consume 51% of the earth's energy supply. If you want to claim this is bad, you will need the support of some sort system of universal ethics.
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by awt 9y ago
Eth used an ICO.
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by awt 9y ago
It isn't up to just the above parties, but also to the people who actually hold bitcoin. Those holders who prefer sound money will sell on the chain that isn't.
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by awt 10y ago
I wonder if this is true in China and Japan as well.
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by awt 10y ago
I was just trying to encourage you to stick with western women in western countries in spite of and in opposition to the state.
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by awt 10y ago
I might point out that men are not totally fine. Men are imprisoned at a much higher rate than women, enter and complete college at a lower rate than women, and have a higher rate of successful suicide. Men also bear the vast majority o
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by awt 10y ago
"Schopenhauer settled permanently in Frankfurt in 1833, where he remained for the next twenty-seven years, living alone except for a succession of pet poodles named Atman and Butz." If you want to end up like Schopenhauer, by all
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by awt 10y ago
I'm currently re-individualizing my personal IT. It is work, but I own the results and they won't be erased by the next minor os "upgrade."
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by awt 10y ago
Web development is not serious work (I say this as a web developer). Naggum wrote software for oil rigs. That is a serious business where lives are on the line, not to mention real and not nominal wealth.
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by awt 10y ago
Interesting. I found him through a different obit. Worst way to find out about someone like that.
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by awt 10y ago
Did you read the Naggum link? He is not easily dismissed.
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by awt 10y ago
Out of curiosity where did you first hear of Naggum? My route to his threads was a bit circuitous. His work as extended my career, to say the least.
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by awt 10y ago
Bitcoin and its flaws are rather well understood at this point but perhaps only by a few. Indeed if you do not understand it, stay out.
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by awt 10y ago
Can anyone point me to the best argument for hiding complexity instead of eliminating it?
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by awt 10y ago
Is it possible that some not so wise folks left large amounts of btc on excahanges that had risen in value 100x from when they'ed been transferred to the silk road wallet? Also, what do you know of the offline blackmarket volume of coc
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by awt 10y ago
my claim that not much was happening? No. I also don't have proof there's no god, or that unicorns don't exist, and so on.
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by awt 10y ago
Do you think it's possible anonymous markets themselves may not be the best sources of information about actual volume of transactions occurring on them? Certainly they have some incentive to fake volume, and no real accountability sin
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by awt 10y ago
Not by any means. Still is cash afaik.
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by awt 10y ago
The illegal drug market in BTC wasn't actually a thing. It never mattered to anyone but journos.
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by awt 10y ago
I'm asking about you though, not the founders.

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