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by cowtools 4y ago
The value that cryptocurrency provides is as a payment network between less trustworthy parties. In cryptocurrency, there is a net transfer of wealth from users (in the form of transaction fees) and owners (in the form of inflation/blo
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by cowtools 4y ago
real jobs? Also, I don't think that the main proposition of cryptocurrency is that you don't need a centralized exchange. If you want to exchange fiat for cryptocurrency via the credit card or bank transfer, you need a trusted pee
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by cowtools 4y ago
Whose platform is it? It's the users that make the forum valuable. Anyone can administrate a web forum. The individuals and communities should decide what speech is acceptable for them, not some unaccountable bureaucrats. I think there
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by cowtools 4y ago
So it is unacceptable now to merely insult other users? You can act coy about the meaning of this, but the usage of such language is obvious. It is trying to compare a voluntary public exchange between anonymous internet users to acts of ph
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by cowtools 4y ago
Being insulted is an "attack"?
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by cowtools 4y ago
The immediate problem is that her video got flagged, but the "real" problem is being over-reliant on youtube without having any leverage against censorship and racketeering. Even if the immediate problem were fixed, it would ultim
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by cowtools 4y ago
The solution is remove the middleman (and thus legal responsibility) as much as possible (e.g. peertube)
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by cowtools 4y ago
I have a sinking feeling in my chest. If the suspicions are true, we may be at a pivotal moment here.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think you underestimate the ability of users to punch holes in the firewalls.
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by cowtools 4y ago
It is not a threat to individual safety. It is a threat to the security of the nation at large.
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by cowtools 4y ago
The USA is a democracy. Arguing otherwise is the pot calling the kettle black.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Wasn't there a a push for micropayments at some point? I think advertisements won out by being more accessible. It is hard to say if the internet would be better or not with micropayments instead of ads.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Well bitcoin's distribution in the early days also relied on faucets, which were susceptible to sibyl attacks
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by cowtools 4y ago
On the contrary, no one accepts bitcoin. Alphabay2 is the only market left and it's monero-only.
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by cowtools 4y ago
There is no need for reproducible builds if you just compile it on the user's end.
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by cowtools 4y ago
>the EU is soon planning to ban private wallets, you can only legally host money on exchanges then, which basically means we're full circle to the old banking system They can try to "ban" whatever they want, but it's
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by cowtools 4y ago
If someone gets banned from google, they probably deserve it even though I have no idea why it happened.
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by cowtools 4y ago
That sucks for apple users I suppose, but I don't think that's the direction the rest of the industry is taking outside of luxury brands.
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by cowtools 4y ago
The best things in life are free.
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by cowtools 4y ago
If they have the highest security requirement of any program, why are you using a closed-source implementation?
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by cowtools 4y ago
> It's not even good for money laundering since the blockchain leaves a very public trail that lasts forever. Not necessarily. There are cryptocurrencies that get around this by using ZKP to obscure senders, receivers, and amounts.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Just charge customers by the gigabyte like a mobile network or a satellite network. It is misleading in the first place to advertise certain speeds on an underutilized network. This is like running an all-you-can-eat buffet and complaining
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by cowtools 4y ago
calculators like TI-84 are programmable and you can even store programs to flash. You could literally type out plain text (like formulas, instructions, etc.) and store it as a BASIC program. A lot of teachers don't know that there is a
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by cowtools 4y ago
depends on serving size
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by cowtools 4y ago
I would reccomend just using go-ipfs with the browser addon.
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by cowtools 4y ago
custodial ownership of bitcoins is a product of bitcoiners' defeatism: it only makes sense if you just want to make money and no longer care about the original values of bitcoin.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Custodial bitcoins defeat the entire purpose of bitcoin. The fact that you don't understand that speaks volumes about the bitcoin community.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Okay, so decrease block times or increase block sizes then. Satoshi was not afraid of hard forks.
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by cowtools 4y ago
lemonade stands do not keep an easily accessible eternal log of their payments
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by cowtools 4y ago
Goalposts moved.

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