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Eleven Light-Years Away, an Earth-Size Planet That May Be Habitable(mobile.nytimes.com)
8 points by craigc 9y ago|0 comments
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by craigc 9y ago
I'm not saying it SHOULD be worth more. Just saying that market behaviors don't always make logical sense. Right now most cryptocurrencies trade against Bitcoin. If that were to change it would require all exchanges introducing ne
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by craigc 9y ago
When Bitcoin was $10 a $1 move in price was a 10% change. When Bitcoin was $100 then a $1 move in price was a 1% change. When Bitcoin was $1000 then a $1 move in price was a 0.1% change. If Bitcoin gets mass adoption then the price per Bitc
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by craigc 9y ago
I have used Bitcoin for purchases in the past. I try not to do it so often because of the exact thing you mentioned, but I feel like this is something that could improve with time. If Bitcoin does get mass adoption and becomes THE worldwide
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by craigc 9y ago
This same question could be asked about many technology startups. Why should Uber be valued higher than Lyft? That's a pretty crude comparison, but I'm just pointing out that just cause someone comes along and makes a clone of som
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by craigc 9y ago
I encourage you to read the Bitcoin white paper if you haven't. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf I think you are a little off base in the original intentions. It was designed to solve a real problem, and its creator was
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by craigc 9y ago
I was confused. I thought chia was going to be also a storage mechanism. I was pointing out those coins that are built around the idea of storage. That said, Filecoin does use some form of proof of storage: https://filecoin.io&#x
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by craigc 9y ago
Ahhhh. I somehow missed that while reading the article. Thanks that makes more sense. When I saw Bittorrent and storage I think my brain immediately jumped to the storage based tokens. Curious to read about and see how that works
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by craigc 9y ago
There are already blockchains that do not require proof of work (Lisk, Nav, Dash, NEO, etc) and already storage based blockchains (Filecoin, Storj, Sia, Maidsafe, etc). It is unclear to me what Chia brings to the table that is really new.
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by craigc 9y ago
If this isn’t clickbait then I don’t know what is. There is no new information here, and I don’t see anywhere where it says that the SEC supports ICOs. I do not know the author, but this is kind of an embarrassment to be considered journali
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by craigc 9y ago
Okay I think we are actually arguing the same thing though. The original argument was why I thought currencies/platforms like BTC and ETH should be considered more valuable than random altcoins (independent of if they are ERC-20 or not
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by craigc 9y ago
Yeah BAT was not the best example. I was just trying to illustrate that ANY altcoin can be purchased using BTC. Only some can be purchased with ETH
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by craigc 9y ago
Yeah I should have made that clear. The price had already started a correction, and the crashing was more associated with uncertainty related to Bitcoin exchanges in China shutting down, but his statement certainly didn’t help. It was picke
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by craigc 9y ago
Well, you could certainly draw that conclusion and make that argument, but I like to think of it as investing in the internet vs. investing in pets.com during the dot-com bubble. As of right now, you are right. The entire crypto market is s
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by craigc 9y ago
I suppose that is true, but if the price does crash back down to $1,000 and then rises up to $6,000 then what does that mean? The bubble burst and the price crashed, but now we are in another bubble? This article is an interesting read and
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by craigc 9y ago
That is a very good question. I didn’t do a good job making an argument for why I think the value of a currency like Bitcoin could be so much higher than an altcoin that did an ICO. In my opinion, Bitcoin has the first mover advantage in th
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by craigc 9y ago
Ya, I am aware of that. I don’t think it really weakens his argument that much though. Your bitcoin is only redistributed to new addresses when you send and receive it so even looking at just people who have bought and held it will give you
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by craigc 9y ago
Ah, good point. Well there is still some irony in that!
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by craigc 9y ago
I think there is a difference between a cryptocurrency bubble and an ICO bubble, and this article fails to distinguish between the two. You can see Tom Lee, a financial strategist, talk about Bitcoin here: https://www.cnbc.com&#x
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by craigc 9y ago
I am glad to read articles like this since I specifically opted to get the non-touchbar MacBook Pro when the new models came out. The only annoying thing about the non-touchbar model is that the specs are not quite as good. I tried it out i
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by craigc 9y ago
If you use Chrome, I recommend https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jk-shortcuts-navig... You can press j to scan forward one result and k to scan backwards and enter or command enter to jump to a result It w
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by craigc 9y ago
The only thing I can think of is that the data you store is still distributed across multiple servers and can’t be removed or tampered with easily.
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by craigc 9y ago
By joining the EEA you are not committing to use the public Ethereum blockchain. In most cases, I think companies are likely to use the Ethereum codebase and run their own private chain using their own servers. That mostly defeats the purpo
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by craigc 9y ago
Or job postings asking for a minimum of 5 or 10 years of experience working with Solidity and Ethereum
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by craigc 9y ago
I was just going to comment this, but I will upvote your comment instead. This drives me crazy
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by craigc 9y ago
Yeah, he probably did not read it, but he does bring up a good point which is that this is only an issue because there are third parties involved. If you were sending a Bitcoin payment on your own and you by accident sent too much, there is
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by craigc 9y ago
Coinbase’s problem lately is that they can’t keep up with their growth. See this recent post: https://blog.coinbase.com/improving-customer-support-139d99e... For me, PayPal and GoDaddy have the worst customer service I have
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by craigc 10y ago
It seems like the replies here are very much in defense of Apple which I am not surprised about, but I do not really consider it to be warranted. I have been using f.lux for years and it has definitely had a huge impact on me. I don't
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Super Mario Bros. 3 screen scrolling explained(youtube.com)
1 points by craigc 10y ago|0 comments
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A battery that can last for thousands of years powered by nuclear waste(forbes.com)
17 points by craigc 10y ago|0 comments

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