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by beaner 5y ago
That's dumb. The purpose of decentralization isn't to simply demonstrate the strength of the decentralization. It's an element that helps something achieve a purpose. In this case, the ability of a person to be their own bank
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by beaner 6y ago
Your analogy is wrong, and so was mine. It is not the refs banning players, it would be the television sports broadcasters. Makes even less sense.
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by beaner 6y ago
Imagine this response in the context of a sport like the NBA. If the ref is secretly racist and bans you from the sport because it's "funny" as their excuse, would you react this way? The nature of videogames doesn't mak
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by beaner 6y ago
No, it just means your eligibility for a professional career may come down to whether or not a random mod on a streaming platform simply thinks it's "funny" to ban you.
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by beaner 6y ago
That even questioning whether it may be happening is itself a fascist assault on democracy.
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by beaner 6y ago
Can it not be removed by the original uploader, or anyone else to acquire their credentials?
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by beaner 6y ago
This is exceptionally hilarious considering the Washington Post's (Bezos' paper) perspective on voter fraud this last presidential election.
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by beaner 6y ago
True, but my comment that the image isn't on the blockchain is still accurate. IPFS is not a blockchain and content can be changed.
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by beaner 6y ago
The funny part is the image itself isn't even on the blockchain, it's centrally hosted somewhere. The token is just a pointer. You can ruin it by having the actual content taken down, wherever it is.
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by beaner 6y ago
It's funny till you realize the same thing can be done to people who aren't weirdos too, like for revenge porn and hacked nudes.
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by beaner 6y ago
Not really a problem on the face of it. If literally everyone in a company is talented, how can that company have any hierarchy or structure without it being claimed that talented people frequently don't rise to the top within the comp
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by beaner 6y ago
It's easy to blame the media. But they do these things because we demand it. If they don't show it, we'll flip to the channel that does. The problem is all of us. It's our culture, and partly our human nature.
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by beaner 6y ago
Politicization and factuality are directly linked. The more politicized a publication is, the more willing is to reach to find facts that fit its narrative, and to craft misleading (or outright false) claims.
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by beaner 6y ago
People want to spend what they hold, and most people who hold crypto hold Bitcoin.
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by beaner 6y ago
I don't necessarily know if this is relevant. Coinbase's custody business is a relatively small (but growing) branch mostly for institutions. Its consumer product is not driven by the fact that it is custodial, but by its function
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by beaner 6y ago
Coinbase is still private and is valued at $100 B.
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by beaner 6y ago
Google is censoring it as well.
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by beaner 6y ago
Ehh... I wouldn't assume that's the whole reason. It's been known for a pretty long time how to not have a baby if you don't want one, physically. Two other factors are religion, and the fact that children are now expens
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by beaner 6y ago
> Google Pay switched to Flutter a few months ago for their flagship mobile app, and they already achieved major gains in productivity and quality. I don't know how they can claim this. The new Google Pay on Android was noticeably l
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by beaner 6y ago
This is what people who make bad decisions tell themselves.
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by beaner 6y ago
If it came down to hundreds of decisions along the way, not just one or two, that isn't luck. She's a good decision maker.
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by beaner 6y ago
Their primary business has always been the brokerage, not the exchange, which came later. The brokerage has always charged fees for both buys and sells.
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by beaner 6y ago
False. The objective of crypto isn't to force everyone out of the banking system, it's to provide an ability to opt-out and be your own bank for those who need or want it. If you want to use a traditional bank or custodian instead
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by beaner 6y ago
Kraken doesn't have better security.
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by beaner 6y ago
You're conflating things. When they say "transaction fees" here, they're referring to blockchain network fees (which they previously covered for users, before network congestion), not buy/sell fees, which they have
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by beaner 6y ago
Doesn't have to be what the average person is doing, it just has to be an option for those who want it.
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by beaner 6y ago
#4 and 5 are false
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by beaner 6y ago
It probably isn't itself, but as long as they're able to provide an attractive centralized alternative to the things happening in defi, they can capture a lot of that growth. Custody, trading, wallet, etc. A successful model for C
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by beaner 6y ago
Could be true, but the "de" in "defi" prevents it from killing Coinbase's main purpose, which is being the fiat -> crypto gateway.
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by beaner 6y ago
Coinbase's primary function isn't to supplant blockchain transaction volume, it's to provide a fiat gateway to acquiring cryptocurrency. Transaction throughput on ethereum only helps Coinbase, because it makes what they sell

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