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by bob33212 6y ago
Some people don't like his style. I don't think they will ever think he is that good. Someone like Oprah would be considered to be far more talented at driving the conversation where she wants it to be. Personally I a huge fan of
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Perfect analogy. From 1998-2006 it was easier to get pirated music than pay for it. Once the music industry realized that the days of people paying $20 per CD that they may only listen to a few times were over, the streamers took over and n
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Sounds Good. I look forward to the BTC future.
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I never said there wasn't wider interest. I said the opposite, I said that the enthusiasts are activity looking to expand the number of people investing. If you want to talk about previous conversations around this, the ones I have had
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I never suggested this was tulip mania. Nice strawman there.
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I think you are right, this doesn't perfectly fit with existing definitions of other scams. This is more like the beanie baby situation combined with some libertarian political beliefs.
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TSLA has more cash than they can efficiently spend at this time. Putting it in diversified liquid asset classes hedges against the fed printing trillions of dollars of the next 3-5 years and destroying 50% of the value of that cash.
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satoshi obviously isn't part of the con. He would have sold a long time ago if that was the case. It is the people who have latched on as "bitcoin evangelists" and are recruiting more people into the network to get the price
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You could make it a debit card and require people to deposit BTC. But in general the USD is a better settlement currency. That is why BTC isn't being used in transactions. BTC is a pump and dump play.
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Off Chain transactions look so much like a credit card that as soon as you begin to build the off chain transaction system you see that Amex/Visa/MC could just allow customers to settle payment in BTC and get the same value.
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I want Banks and Regulators involved when I buy a house. I understand that these 3rd parties can make things take longer or add extra fees, but that gives me legal protections I don't get with bitcoin.
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All major corporate asset allocation is speculative. Look at Exxon's assets. Some are in short term investments. BTC can be seen as a short term investment to offset depreciation of the USD. https://www.wsj.com/market-d
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This is a hedge. A hedge against consumers/suppliers/employees using BTC as their preferred form of payment.
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All global companies with cash reserves "Maximize returns on Cash" via currency and other investments and hedges.
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Tesla and all other world wide companies hold a variety of currencies for several reasons. They have Euros but not because they think that the Euro is superior to the Dollar. It allows them to run gigafactory Berlin and customer transaction
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Just the system. 10 years from now people look back at covid and say: "They had save and effective vaccines in June 2020. Why didn't they immediately distribute and scale the production of those vaccines?"
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It is infrastructure expansion. Just like if someone built an electric grid or new road. Plenty of people may be happy with their existing roads, but making a new one opens up opportunities to people who do want to use the new infrastructur
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It is one thing to bring in some more workers to help you with research you don't have the ability to do. It is another thing to pay someone to make a report backing up a decision you have already made. It is another thing to pay someo
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In other words your clients have incompetent executives and instead of suggesting those people be replaced you do their work for them since they are the ones paying your fees.
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My Condolences. RedHat was an awesome company and helped make Linux and open source a success. I hope the bluewashing goes slow and you are able to have a good experience there for quite a while.
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I have plenty of criticism of the blockchain hype, but IBM does this for all buzzwords regardless of how useful the underlying technology is. It is all marketing to get executives at large companies to cut large checks. Once those checks ar
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It depends on the situation. For example, if you believe that the FDA approval for Moderna vaccine will be revoked next month, using an option could be a good way to make money on what would obviously be very bad for the stock next month. O
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"Covid Variant has Scientists Worried!", "Big Moves in BITCOIN", It has got to be sad to be a journalist trying to do real work and your company is just pushing out garbage like this.
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https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...
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Climate change is not a big deal as far as innovation goes. It is an enormous disaster for specific cities though
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I don't have a time machine so no I cannot prove what will happen in the future
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We are within 500 years of creating millions of self sustaining spaceports. We are within 500 years of AGI. We are within 500 years of understanding quantum gravity. We are within 500 years of fixing biological death. The order we get to t
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If it is encrypted and you drop just a couple bits due to noise you can't read it.
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Also autonomy. Also VTG cost savings
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Inflation is intended to measure middle class distress. If gas/food/rent goes up people making under 50k can fall into poverty and bankruptcy. If GME goes up to $2000 the middle class isn't hurt much at all. Just a few hundre

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