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by cdiddy2 7y ago
No reason you couldn't have some of these features in a crypto wallet. Lots of schemes are being created with with multisig, smart contracts, and social recovery methods. Here is one around freezing transfers not to a known address.
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by cdiddy2 7y ago
wouldnt making gold mining more efficient just mean that you would mine more of it eventually taking the same amount of overall energy use?
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by cdiddy2 7y ago
Ethereum didn't fail to scale, its just taking much longer than anticipated. The plans are finally coming together though for PoS and Sharding on the base chain, with layer 2 there for more scaling as needed
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
Hunger Games was sort of painting celebrities as the ruling class
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
Ya, globalization has changed my opinion on how we should handle these situations. How are US companies supposed to compete against other companies that are just as large if we restrict their size within the US? That just gives us a disadva
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
It doesn't, but it does bring competition to the government controlled money monopoly. Competition is generally seen as a good thing for the majority of people
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
Short the companies with the most debt to earnings or some strategy along those lines.
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
Looked more into it, this seems to put Tezos somewhere in the middle. https://medium.com/tezos/liquid-proof-of-stake-aec2f7ef1da7 However after reading that I am pretty sure the current Ethereum Serenity spec allows fo
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
Is Tezos not pure PoS?
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
There aren't enough devs who know how to write/research decentralized apps for them to hire. If you know of them, they will hire those people gladly
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
Plasma was also developed by the same guy who created the lightning network
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
That's because they believe that those regulations aren't allowing smaller corporations to be able to compete
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
Unless that customer is Kraken itself who may be able to redeem the USDT for USD. The market cap for tether went down 750 million recently so there appears to be some way to take it out of circulation. https://coinmarketcap.com&#
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
not sure if this counts, but there is a direct USDT/USD trading pair on Kraken https://trade.kraken.com/markets/kraken/usdt/usd
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
Luckily I am a computer scientist however it is extremely hard to keep up with everything going on in the blockchain space. There must be some validity behind the idea of weighted random turn-taking though since it is similar to how the nex
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
I believe bitcoins proof of work has been formally verified, however I can't find a source for that. There is also this https://iohk.io/research/papers/#9BKRHCSI that claims to be formally verified Proof of S
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
Its a bit hard to read the times, but its more than 8 hours with 17% left as I plug in for the charge. https://imgur.com/a/C7rCKeK
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
Just got the XPS 13 developer edition here so still brand new. I am getting 10 hours or so with web browsing
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
competition is good, but not when one has an unfair shipping cost advantage subsidized by taxpayers from another country and the other doesn't
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
maybe it would be possible for some of those stores to prosper again with a change in the market conditions
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
Market cap isn't perfect by any means, but if there was a better metric that could be used to get a quick valuation of something then the stock markets would already use it.
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
It doesnt have the same history of security that proof of work has so its just newer and hard to get the incentives correct to create a secure network. Ethereum is working on moving to it and some others as well.
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
The energy cost does not correlate with the usage of the network. A block with 1 transaction in it needs the same amount of energy as a block with 3000 transactions in it. The peak energy cost is limited by the price of bitcoin though.
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
Its doesn't have any mining at all. You put your coins in a smart contract that allows you to get randomly selected to create blocks from time to time, if you do something wrong then some of your coins are taken from you, if you do eve
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
It is strange that XLM isn't included when it was included in the release of 5 coins that they may support in the future.
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
It allows you to logout of Pam. That seems to be it from a quick glance
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
At some point the ruling class becomes so small and so powerful that they suddenly lose all their power as the majority decide that things aren't working out anymore and revolt. A new more fair order is installed which slowly trends ba
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
Its not really steam that is bad, but the AOE2 games netcode that is poor. There are a lot less 'wait for sync' issues with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfXg3QQymaU
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
play on voobly instead, its so much more stable
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by cdiddy2 8y ago
time to spread resources across clouds? or would that be too expensive?

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