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by campbelltown 9y ago
But point a and b in you're assessment of gold's value are two of the most common arguments for crypto, specifically bitcoin, as well. a) crypto holders believe that the value will hold because as more individuals use it to store
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Early proof of stake research in Ethereum(github.com)
1 points by campbelltown 9y ago|0 comments
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by campbelltown 9y ago
It appears the hacker has begun moving ether from the account. The number presented in this link will no longer match the amount in the title. There is currently 83K ether remaining.
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by campbelltown 9y ago
Sorry :) I didn't want to link anything that had potential for bias. Just the account with the amount. But, wow, this post blew up.
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153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack(etherscan.io)
943 points by campbelltown 9y ago|725 comments
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by campbelltown 9y ago
This is true. But mastercard facilitates the liquidation of this credit via their payment systems, which people will continue to use. Initially people will likely use ether as a store of value/hedge against the traditional economy. Als
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by campbelltown 9y ago
Exactly! Could you imagine if we could watch a live twitter fueled debate about how to upgrade our central banking system? It's a beautiful sight. Flawed, but beautiful.
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by campbelltown 9y ago
Even further, there are no gatekeepers...
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by campbelltown 9y ago
I've found this to be my experience as well. Although, I've witnessed a few cases of co-workers taking advantage of the freedom. I suspect the software engineering field is less prone to employees taking excess advantage of their
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by campbelltown 9y ago
I'm not even laughing because this will happen
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by campbelltown 9y ago
The first thought after going through all these photos was: incredibly stilted. It's amazingly impressive, but the human photographer will always be able to capture the subtleties that AI will miss. But very cool nonetheless
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by campbelltown 9y ago
Permissionless ownership.
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by campbelltown 9y ago
Not all good things come in beautiful packages. This is the economic consequence of creating a system that no one entity can fully control. Without a central backing, it's value cannot be manipulated and, therefore, the supply cannot i
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by campbelltown 9y ago
Blockchains only improve the efficiency of permissionless system. If you're going to create an in-house currency, it would be idiotic to use something as un-scalable as a blockchain.
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by campbelltown 9y ago
The colossal compute power goes up when more fiat enter the system and traders speculate the price up. It is a security mechanism, not a throughput mechanism
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by campbelltown 9y ago
Efficiency was and never will be the primary goal of bitcoin. It is meant to provide you with permissionless ownership. In a permissionless system if what you own_ is worth X dollars, than it will take some amount, say Y, dollars to secure
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by campbelltown 9y ago
Whether or not you agree with the model of token sales (most here don't) Ethereum already hit it's scaling limits after hosting several hyped ICOs. When the ICO bubble deflates or crashes, I suspect the ICO model is not going away
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by campbelltown 9y ago
Yeah, this makes sense. I talk to myself a decent amount. But not about anything remotely constructive. I'm a talkative person by nature and spend a lot of time alone, so I'm guessing it's more loneliness than anything; altho
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Cryptocurrency is a scam. Until it's not(medium.com)
3 points by campbelltown 9y ago|0 comments
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by campbelltown 9y ago
This article is lazy. It sounds like the author took a cursory look at the tech and wrote it off. This has no place at the top of hackernews.
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What Is Lisk: The Importance of Sidechains(blog.lisk.io)
1 points by campbelltown 9y ago|0 comments
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Germany's Energy Giant Launches Ethereum-Based Electric Car Charging Stations(trustnodes.com)
139 points by campbelltown 9y ago|76 comments
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by campbelltown 9y ago
I finally bit the bullet and downloaded it. It's a pretty seamless transition from using chrome. I'm really impressed.
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Ethereum price goes up nearly 50 percent in under a week(coinmarketcap.com)
130 points by campbelltown 10y ago|107 comments
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Released my first npm module. Handle JS child processes with ease(npmjs.com)
1 points by campbelltown 10y ago|0 comments
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by campbelltown 10y ago
Do we really need a Mark Cuban quote in there though.
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The Meaning of Decentralization(medium.com)
1 points by campbelltown 10y ago|0 comments
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by campbelltown 10y ago
Whenever one of these posts come around, people start sharing horrible experiences they've had with facebook and how they're "scaling back" or tailoring their facebook usage ie. using the mobile browser instead of the ap