corford

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by corford 9y ago
Check out Revolut. It's pretty awesome (no affiliation, just a happy user).
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by corford 9y ago
>Banking apps are terrible. No argument there. Hopefully the new open digital banking legislation will fix that. Honestly the Nationwide app is pretty good imho
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by corford 9y ago
>Where on earth are you getting that statistic? I just stuck "GTX1070" in Amazon and that's the rough price that came up.
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by corford 9y ago
That's actually better than I would have imagined. What's the difficulty growth like with ETH these days? Or, what's a safe estimation of how many ETH a 1060 could mine before Casper lands?
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by corford 9y ago
Yeah but you're forever capped at meager returns. As soon as a coin's value increases, more mining hash power enters the scene and difficulty shoots up (ruining your profit margin). You then swap to another coin, eventually the sa
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by corford 9y ago
That income is not coming from mining Ethereum and, as time goes on, the amount of any coin you can mine diminishes (sometimes rapidly). The only way to avoid diminishing mining returns as difficulty increases is to swap to a new, lesser kn
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by corford 9y ago
Sorry, I just assumed ETH was out of reach of personal mining now. Sure, you could hold "shitcoins" that are currently easier to mine but that's a lot more risky than long term holding something like ETH, LTC, XMR (at least I
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by corford 9y ago
Not sure this holds either. With such a black swan event, there would be a glut of second hand graphics cards on ebay etc. Seems safer to me (if you're worried about a huge crash) to leave your principle investment equivalent amount on
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by corford 9y ago
I still don't get it :( That's 108 days before you _start_ to make a profit and future returns are guaranteed to diminish as difficulty goes up. Versus £5,200 capital to invest immediately in a basket of safe (as much as crypto cu
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by corford 9y ago
Haha, hadn't thought of that :) This reason makes sense to me.
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by corford 9y ago
That's fine and makes sense to me. It's more the people that cram 8 cards in to their machine and mine 24/7 that I have a hard time understanding.
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by corford 9y ago
>by selling whatever they mine immediately. In this market that just seems like the equivalent of burning your money in the street.
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by corford 9y ago
I'm not sure I agree. Depending on what you're mining and when you start, you may never make your costs back. If anything, at this point (especially with more and more new coins adopting PoS rather than PoW) I'd say it's
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by corford 9y ago
I don't understand the economic argument for personal mining (I totally get it from a fun, geeky PoV if making money isn't the primary goal - it's how I got started in crypto). A GTX1070 costs about $800. At $4/day, it w
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by corford 9y ago
Yes and no, those stalls survive on repeat customers. There's a very strong incentive not to poison them.
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by corford 9y ago
Moxie Marlinspike is involved in: https://www.mobilecoin.com/
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by corford 9y ago
But isn't Mobilecoin just borrowing stellar's approach to consensus? And what stops anyone from setting up a full node?
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by corford 9y ago
I'm not totally up on this (since I'm English and my wife is French, so Europe is easy for us) but a friend of mine (also English) married an American and I remember it took quite a bit of effort for her to become a dual British c
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by corford 9y ago
The (excellent) article agrees with you: "From massive barbarity to pinpricks of microaggression, Us versus Them has produced oceans of pain. Yet, I don’t think our goal should be to “cure” us of all Us/Them dichotomizing (separat
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by corford 9y ago
In no particular order: Berlin, Lisbon, London, Paris (might need a little bit of French), Amsterdam, Dublin. Each one has different pros/cons depending on whats important to you: type of work, money, work/life balance. All of the
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by corford 9y ago
The browser would still need to trust the fake CA, which means pwning the victim's computer i.e. it's already game over at that point.
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by corford 9y ago
I never used Final but from a quick skim it seems like Revolut cover a lot of what they did (and more).
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by corford 9y ago
I believe the coordinator is slated to be removed sometime next year.
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by corford 9y ago
I'm an IOTA fan* but there aren't enough full nodes in the tangle at the moment (and also no direct financial incentive for more public ones to be created, afaik?). You just had to witness their slack last night to see that. Peopl
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by corford 9y ago
Until segwit, lightning network etc. shape up and the wild bull/bear runs smooth out, BTC (and most other cryptos: see ETH and crypto kitties; or IOATA and their overrun nodes) don't really make sense for small transactions. I kno
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by corford 9y ago
>3. Another easy solution is to have these ICOs hold the proceeds in escrow and release of funds quarterly for five years to the startups/projects and giving the investors the ability to refund half or 75% of their remaining commitm
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by corford 9y ago
hahaha :)
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by corford 9y ago
For short/medium haul flights, all I care about is price and itinerary times. For me it's a simple transport utility like a bus or train and so commoditization feels inevitable. I actually care more about the airport and ground tr
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by corford 9y ago
They have in a sense, just not at the resolution of days/weeks. Airlines move their fleet capacity around all the time according to seasonal demand and passenger trends.
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by corford 9y ago
None of the exchanges I use support shorting. But yes, the limited shorting currently offered in the crypto world is not very robust. Fine for small day trader moves but no help with major movements.

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