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by delabay 5y ago
Look up pollen mobile and helium 5G. both have an interesting approach to creating a totally new private wireless network, OR, creating a neutral host network for roaming agreements. imagine getting paid to own and operate your own little c
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by delabay 5y ago
If you're in the US you can play with professional grade wireless telecom hardware using CBRS spectrum. I have a magma core and radio on my house to play around with. Some teams are doing very interesting work in combining crypto incen
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by delabay 5y ago
I wonder if they can apply this model to all wireless protocols?
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by delabay 5y ago
OP's hot take isn't reality. Worked at a suicide hotline for a year. The fundamental purpose of suicide hotlines is to take burden off emergency services, and to give folks a coping mechanism which doesn't involve 911. 90% of
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by delabay 5y ago
You changed, the space did not. Passionate folks always exist but along the way you stopped seeking them out.
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by delabay 5y ago
A global digital ledger of record which nobody controls and everybody agrees has never existed. It just might be worth all the electricity. Win/win cooperative deals are being made between cities and miners to establish predictable bas
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by delabay 5y ago
In aforementioned countries the established financial system becomes a tool of theft by the government. Just listen to news reports or podcasts from normal folks who have to survive under these conditions. Thought you had a dollar denominat
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by delabay 5y ago
Nobody but you is making this claim
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by delabay 5y ago
Forbidding folks in these countries (Turkey, Lebanon, Argentina, Venezuela) from holding a crypto alternative to their native currency is sentencing them to a guaranteed loss of 90%+ of their purchasing power, versus weathering crypto volat
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by delabay 5y ago
Gas (as in a car) is a useful analogy to the function of this fee in the protocol. Transaction fee implies something else all together.
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by delabay 5y ago
This typo/oversight/error/whatever shows the depth of misunderstanding the author has about the subject he or she writes. People of hacker news will still love the content, but nobody outside of this bubble will view this as
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by delabay 5y ago
This does not factor into the decision making process of a property developer in the 90-00's. i stand by my original phrasing.
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by delabay 5y ago
I grew up in midwestern suburbs where Bradfords were planted with great enthusiasm. I can see the appeal, they have neat symmetry, create no mess besides the leaves and don't get too big. Their semen-like flower scent filled the air in
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by delabay 5y ago
Alternate opinion: proof of work mining provides a valuable service to society much moreso than videogames and the premium on GPUs reflects this. This isn't mainstream opinion of course, however I predict it will be. Crypto mining is t
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by delabay 5y ago
Helium has solved the coverage problem through creating deployment incentive. You're missing the point of helium to such a large degree your post almost sounds like satire.
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by delabay 5y ago
"Little to show"? You're not paying attention.
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by delabay 5y ago
Your comment takes me back to the 90s when fax machines were superior to email. You're clearly not paying attention to the space. Everybody in this space is 20-30 years old. Bet against demographics, I dare you.
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by delabay 5y ago
The psychological momentum of BIS far exceeds that of crypto. BIS and affiliated parties are comprised of thousands of old guard who have built their career and sense of self worth on the belief what they are doing is necessary and benefici
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by delabay 5y ago
About BIS: The BIS mission is to support central banks' pursuit of monetary and financial stability through international cooperation, and to act as a bank for central banks. > It is difficult to get a man to understand something wh
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by delabay 5y ago
Someone who's not comfortable is probably facing the decimation of their native currency already, as what's happening in several "modern" countries at the moment. What would you pick? Sketchy native currency with a near
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by delabay 5y ago
Odd perspective to express on a website which is founded upon being early to societal trends.
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by delabay 5y ago
Regulation will come - folks on both sides are clamoring for it. Crypto industry folks are begging the SEC to do its job, but US Gov departments need to wrap up their infighting and territory division first. Stephen Diehl is the most eloque
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by delabay 5y ago
You have a comfortable life. Many don't. Side note: what appears to be instantaneous settlement in fact, is not.
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by delabay 5y ago
Nothing wrong in your perspective? How fortunate for you.
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by delabay 5y ago
More like a mathematical certainty
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by delabay 5y ago
Crypto speaks to aspects of humanity which people hold near and dear. Crypto no doubt harbors shady characters, ponzi schemes, scams. You also can't deny that there are ideas which threaten state control, monetary policy, nationalistic
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by delabay 5y ago
Helium 5G will become a large neutral host carrier for mobile using CBRS bands. Meaning that major network operators, or MVNOs, are the real customer. The way this works is Helium hardware owner/operators deploy CBRS radios in whatever
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by delabay 5y ago
Helium has better coverage than TTN by orders of magnitude. I have an environmental sensor which reports every 15 minutes and $1 pays for years of data transfer.
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by delabay 5y ago
You're forgetting Lebanon
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by delabay 5y ago
I like this point. Bubbles all the way down. If one becomes fixated on the troublesome qualities of crypto its intellectually dishonest to ignore the similarities in every other non-crypto investment vehicle.

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