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barnbuilder
4y ago
> For Bitcoin, the most popular one, on the order of 100.000.000.000.000.000.000 of hashes get calculated to mine a single block, multiple trillion per second. Within ten minutes, only a single one of those 100.000.000.000.000.000.000 ha
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barnbuilder
4y ago
The linked article seems to be copied and pasted from here: https://www.businessinsider.com/jump-trading-sues-over-wormh... Not sure what "kqeducationgroup.com" is but it looks illegitimate.
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barnbuilder
4y ago
Lightning Network is a "layer 2" on top of "layer 1" bitcoin. The short summary is that it allows two parties to conduct lots of transactions and, when one of them decides they are done, the final balance is committed to
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barnbuilder
4y ago
> According to cryptofees.net, BTC transaction fees average 4% That site hasn't been updated in almost a year. (Check the prices and recent transactions it links to.) Here's a more accurate way to estimate bitcoin's fees.
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barnbuilder
5y ago
The "problem" being solved is that the manufacturers of the products sold at Walgreens (presumably) profit from their sale, which means there is room for Walgreens (and an accomplice) to shake them down for a fee and still leave e
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barnbuilder
5y ago
I guess the same way Theranos made a deal with Walgreens.
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barnbuilder
5y ago
What makes Breezewood unique is that you are forced off of a freeway to drive through that strip. Otherwise it looks like many other American roads. I think the internet without Adblock is more like these heinous digital video billboards in
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barnbuilder
5y ago
Always worth keeping in mind that professional athletes have a limited span of time until they will no longer be employable in their field, so they are under a different pressure to maximize their earnings than e.g. software engineers.
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barnbuilder
5y ago
You've heard about this a lot because it is a common thing for the police in many parts of the world to plant drugs on foreigners so they can arrest them.
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barnbuilder
5y ago
Not only are they apparently lying to US News, they appear to be running a scheme of enrolling an unusually high amount of transfer students (who are not counted in the US News graduation rates) for the purpose of soaking them for tuition r
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barnbuilder
5y ago
You only forgot one thing. The post would be written like this. This insufferable style of two line breaks between short sentences. Seems to be a requirement for LinkedIn viral content.
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barnbuilder
5y ago
Obviously it is not a requirement but it's quite helpful, even if LinkedIn is a dreadful web site in so many ways. I've gotten 3 of my last 4 jobs as a result of LinkedIn inmails (including 1 MAMAA). Applying for open jobs is alwa
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barnbuilder
6y ago
There are people and organizations attempting to do this with Bitcoin right now. How do people tell the difference? Sometimes they don't and they get scammed.
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barnbuilder
6y ago
I for one don't want the administration to have an "official response" to this, so a non-sequitur is positively delightful.
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barnbuilder
6y ago
No, BSV is hopeless because nobody wants anything to do with Craig S. Wright (Good summary here: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-how-many-wrongs-m... ). Also, if BSV had enough users to ever experience scalin
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barnbuilder
8y ago
When that individual says anything truthful or delivers on any of his promises, it will be the first time. Until then feel free to ignore the troll.