bitcoin_anon

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by bitcoin_anon 3y ago
We and the wave are constantly in flux. Every morning you are different than the day before. To a smaller extent, in every moment as well. So being the wave is an illusion. You are only the wave for a moment. Then you are a different wave.
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by bitcoin_anon 3y ago
Re: > An AI-related proposal When Stable Diffusion came out, one of the first things I did was prompt it to generate some self portraits: https://imgur.com/a/GhlUnPn
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by bitcoin_anon 3y ago
> Bitcoin solves this. Indeed. Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency that the powers have deemed a commodity. The rest are securities.
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by bitcoin_anon 3y ago
My wife an I use Airpods in the home when we're doing chores, and I'm already starting to feel uncomfortable about that. I feel annoyed when I'm interrupted from a podcast by a family member, and I'm sure they feel it. P
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by bitcoin_anon 3y ago
Kind of like how Everclear dominates the alcohol industry?
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by bitcoin_anon 3y ago
Spice contains novel cannabanoids (and probably residual chemicals) so it is a different beast altogether. Cannabis concentrates, e.g. dabs, rosin, BHO are stronger versions of cannabis.
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by bitcoin_anon 3y ago
Isn't this a social media problem as well? Climate change is a hot topic on social media. When we are frequently exposed to doom-porn, we tend to develop a bleak outlook.
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
This is what happens when criminals produce drugs. Drugs of abuse should be legally produced by professionals and made available to adults, e.g. tobacco, cannabis, alcohol.
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
> At a point when all labor is obsolete there will be literally no method of survival for anyone who doesn't own the "compute capital". How about subsistence farming?
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
Since the Bitcoin supply is capped, the price itself is data about it being used. At present, it will cost you $28,000 to obtain 1 Bitcoin from those of us who value it.
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
Have you ever been to a bar?
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
Sathoshi Nakamoto's soul remains intact.
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
A PhD will tell you if you're asking the wrong question. Human empathy allows us to intuit what a person's actual goals might be and provide a course correction. For example, on Stack Overflow you'll see questions like how do
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
The legacy of the crypto community is the Bitcoin blockchain. Blocks are still being appended. It will outlast this instrument of financial oppression, as well as the UK itself. > The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of se
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
Inflation is a highly politicized topic. The means of calculating it is frequently under revision. The US federal government is massively in debt in $USD terms, so inflation is good for them. On the flip side, they need to convince the worl
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
I'm generally not sophisticated enough to time the market, but it seems like the largest player in the market is trying to crush it in order to save the dollar. Is it timing the market to recognize this fact and adjust one's portf
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
> Any time I hear these kinds of reasonings the question comes to mind: if some distributions of currency are preferable to others, and we know what such distributions look like, why not let the government do the distribution directly? B
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
When sentiment is low, I remind myself that for the price to remain where its been for the past three months or so, people have been purchasing the 900 Bitcoins mined a day, paying $16,000 each, or $14 million a day. This is the best use fo
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
Let us not forget why we went from an elemental money (gold) to a money that is printable: price stability. We collectively decided that we wanted a few people to have control over the money supply so that they could turn the knobs to ensur
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
> If I and my grandma and everyone's grandma would use Proof of Work cryptocurrencies to buy peanuts at the supermarket, PoW energy usage would probably rival that of China. I can't speak for all PoW cryptocurrencies, but this
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
Nice strawman.
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
> Investors in casinos are not made while for changes in gambling laws. What about the people seated at the tables in the middle of a hand?
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
> If it helps understand my seemingly heartless position: I have exactly as much sympathy and empathy for somebody spending $4bil on crypto, as for investing $4bil in Phillip Morris or another tobacco company a couple of decades ago. Thi
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
> What was done for those who held vast stores of tulips and tulip bulbs at the end of the tulip craze? As far as I know, very little. The difference is that the tulip craze died of its own accord. This question was posed to those who w
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
Serious question for those of you who want to regulate Bitcoin out of existence: What do you propose to do with those of us who, despite your attestations of its uselessness, have deemed it useful and purchased it with our hard earned money
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
Your proposed threat to Bitcoin only makes it stronger. If more resources are invested into mining, the network gets stronger. Meanwhile, other countries will increase their investment as well. It’s an arms race that doesn’t lead to people
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by bitcoin_anon 4y ago
“Controlled by another country” is a worse bug than “Controlled by no one”.
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by bitcoin_anon 5y ago
You solve the food problem one way. Your neighbors solve it a different way. Vines, still another way. If your neighbor cuts down the forest to raise some cows, or a vine climbs up a tree and chokes it out to access more sunlight, where’s t
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by bitcoin_anon 5y ago
Yet, people are still raising them for food. The species under question doesn’t matter. Farming is also destroying diversity so that people can eat. There is nothing wrong here. It is the way of nature. As you read this, bacteria, viruses,
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by bitcoin_anon 5y ago
Not if you’re hungry.

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