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Creating money out of thin ether. SPV exploit spreading in Ethereum Network(decryptmedia.com)
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Bots Are Manipulating Price of Bitcoin in ‘Wild West of Crypto’(wsj.com)
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Do you have a source? Sounds like you just made that up. Investors, especially large institutions will have teams of lawyers who would would have paperwork from the party they purchase from vetting the purchase. Their insurance is the law a
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What’s more, miners can offer something unique: brand-new, “virgin” coins, which some investors covet. Such coins command a premium of up to 20 percent, according to Travis Kling, founder of the hedge fund Ikigai. It’s easi
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interesting... "Decentralized dark pool exchange protocol. Built for laundering large volumes of crypto." https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-fines-btc-e...
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Bitcoin: 10 Years of Smoke and Mirrors(medium.com)
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Tether (USDT) Grappling with Allegations of Noble Bank Insolvency(cryptovest.com)
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"$14B" on paper - but the real value of what could be extracted from market sells would be immensely less. Those numbers are based on the market spot price, and not the order book support from real world buyers. Cryptocoin exchang
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CVE-2018-17144 – The Aftermath of a Catastrophic Bitcoin Bug(livebitcoinnews.com)
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It's been a solved problem in private tracker communities - where users leach bandwidth is on a credit system and they need to maintain a ratio of upload/download to keep their access. What TRON is trying to do is sell tokens to u
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https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/01/08/trons-whitepaper-copie... It's amazing that such a clearly fraudulent project acquired any funding to begin with.
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"There is a problem with torrents - nobody want to seed. So let's require users to pay us money for our penny stock tokens"
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Do the seeders generate the coins specific to each torrent, or is this some sort of scam where coins are made by TRON and users now have to pay for what's already free..?
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Claiming that we will not be able to solve the routing problem on the lightning network is exactly the same as claiming that we won't be able to solve the routing problem on the Internet. Routing is a solved problem, b
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You missed the point entirely. The vast majority of the supply is owned by a very small oligarch. The chances of Bitcoin becoming obsolete or failing catastrphically due to a glitch or bug in the protocol software - like what just happened
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CVE-2018-17144: The Aftermath of a Catastrophic Bitcoin Bug(livebitcoinnews.com)
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Point being the Bitcoin supply is increasing at a rate higher than fiat. What is that called? It's not deflation.
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https://1ml.com/visual/network Sealioning (also spelled sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment which consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated
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>A whole world currency that is potentially immune to inflation and government manipulation. But completely exposed to private manipulation - malicious coders inserting backdoors into wallets which allow theft of users funds,
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Bitcoin's inflation rate is higher than the USD though? Bitcoin inflation rate per annum: 3.87% USD Current inflation rate for the United States is 2.7%. Early in Bitcoin history, by design Bitcoin went though a period of hyp
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Other than a non functioning economy where wealthy oligarchs control everything simply for showing up a few years early and taking control of the money supply because they already had surplus capital to either mine or purchase the easily pr
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The way Lightening Network is designed kills the p2p aspect of the Bitcoin protocol.. LN is predictably to benefit capital holders with enough excess capital to act as the backbone hubs. Normal users will be unable to bypass the Bitcoin ban
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Anyone who knows how routing on the internet works can explain to you why the internet requires trusted backbones to route, and even then packets are dropped and bad routes happen. How then can a decentralized PAYMENT network preform better
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In an adversarial decentralized global payment network, information does not propagate instantaneously. As transaction rates increase, race conditions will increasingly clog the network. There is no way to fix this as information takes time
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Raiblocks aka Nano is a scam. "Distribution is complete" - how was the supply created and distributed? Hint, the supply was "premined" and a the creator chose to gift a very small percent of the supply out to users in or
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IOTA is a well known fraud, highly distrusted and discredited among anyone following cryptocoins. https://medium.com/andreas-tries-blockchain/iota-cannot-be-u... The network is centralized and unusable. There is no rea
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If you understand computer science and design, there are some claims the LN team makes which will never be possible. The lightening network inherently suffers from limitations on transaction rates and an inability to scale up. https:/
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Bitcoin has a higher inflation rate than USD. Bitcoin inflation rate per annum: 3.87% USD Current inflation rate for the United States is 2.7%. Early in Bitcoin history, by design Bitcoin went though a period of hyperinflation whe
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The lightening network inherently suffers from limitations on transaction rates and an inability to scale up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition It's one of the most basic computer bugs, and LN design is
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Each of those marketing claims of Bitcoin are not true. -Privacy: See the recent example where the state sponsored espionage involving sophisticated hackers had their activity traced though Bitcoin's blocktchain transaction log. Even M

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