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by deweller 4y ago
I'm sure many investors are looking at their portfolio right now and re-evaluating their holdings of USDT. But Tether honored redemptions for large holders. This does not look like the beginning of a bank run or a Tether collapse to m
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by deweller 4y ago
It has been tied up in courts for years. The most recent estimates put the "early" payout at sometime this year. See https://bitcoinbuilder.com/ .
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by deweller 4y ago
The risk is that Twitter will become owned by a single person with a strong personality. You may agree with Musk's agenda. But he does have an agenda.
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by deweller 5y ago
It was the centralized nature of this bridge (5 private keys required) that allowed this hack to happen in the first place.
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by deweller 5y ago
Codependency became broadly known in the context of relationships involving alcohol and substance abuse. But it's definition is much broader than that. And, I would argue, much more common.
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by deweller 5y ago
Perfectionism can be a symptom of codependence. Codependence is a loaded word, but understand that many, many people struggle with codependence to some degree. Us codependent personalities gain our sense of well-being based on what others
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by deweller 5y ago
Person A offers BTC for sale for Rubles. Person B offers Rubles in order by buy BTC. Binance is an exchange which matches these two offers. In this scenario, Person A is taking the risk of the Ruble devaluing.
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by deweller 5y ago
Binance is not taking this risk. The counterparty who is selling BTC for Rubles is taking the monetary risk of the Rubles devaluing. My guess is that the buyers of Rubles are turning around and selling some or all of them on a foreign curr
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by deweller 5y ago
ngrok is easy to use. Is there any advantage of using Cloudflare Tunnel over ngrok?
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by deweller 5y ago
Many cryptocurrency enthusiasts agree that the technology will not disrupt nation states. But that does not mean they won't move the needle in the balance of power. If cryptocurrency can provide citizens with more financial empowermen
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by deweller 5y ago
>> Bitcoin also has some utility as a transaction medium. > It really doesn't. It is pretty difficult to support an argument that Bitcoin has zero value as a transaction medium.
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by deweller 5y ago
It is important to note that this was not a smart contract exploit. The point of failure here was the website UI. Users were sent to a malicious website due to a stolen Cloudflare API key. What can DAOs do to prevent the single point of f
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by deweller 5y ago
So true. Every technology revolution seems like a toy at first. Consider the personal computer, the spreadsheet, the internet, the smart phone. Only time will tell if cryptocurrencies will join this list.
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by deweller 5y ago
I agree that would be a useless smart contract. If that is your intention, then don't use a smart contract. If, however, there are a limited number of known possible outcomes, then smart contracts offer advantages over court-based set
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by deweller 5y ago
No. Better than the current system of laws we have. Currently, the current system requires lengthy court intervention with interpretation done after the fact. Smart contracts can allow for a fixed number of resolutions with a timeframe def
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by deweller 5y ago
The smart contracts you are seeing now are relatively simple programs and are woefully insufficient for nation-state level use. Imagine a future with multiple levels of smart contracts that allow for court intervention and arbitration. It
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by deweller 5y ago
Snowden is assuming that Worldcoin is saving hashes of eyeballs. That is not what Worldcoin is doing. Zero Knowledge proofs allow the system to prove that an eyeball exists without actually tying the biometric hash directly to an ID. From
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by deweller 5y ago
PHP 8 has been out since November. It adds some typing but everything is optional. PHP has always been a loosely typed language. Converting to a strongly typed language would against the grain of the entire culture and history of PHP. h
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by deweller 5y ago
In our area, pharmacies will not fill prescriptions for Ivermectin as a prophylactic. With a doctor's prescription, the pharmacies (Walmart, etc) are refusing to fill the prescription. The prescribing doctors are upset and say it is n
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by deweller 5y ago
Serious question: What is wrong with this?
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by deweller 5y ago
It is not guaranteed. You should not treat is as FDIC insured funds. But let's do a little game theory. Say the market starts losing faith in USDC and people start selling 1 USDC for, say, 0.98 USD. Coinbase can either let this happen
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by deweller 5y ago
Desktop version of that comic: https://xkcd.com/1827/
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by deweller 5y ago
Well, I suppose it is possible to target ads to specific users without knowing anything about the user other than an anonymous user ID. Of course, this requires one to trust that Facebook is not actually collecting any identifying info. Th
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by deweller 5y ago
But they at least make the case that a larger study is warranted.
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by deweller 5y ago
It is not censorship proof but it is resistant to censorship. A state actor would need to block all IPFS hosts as soon as they begin to serve a specific CID. This is a game of whack-a-mole that would be difficult to maintain.
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by deweller 5y ago
That is not how Bitcoin works. You would need over 51% of mining power to make this switch. What you are proposing is a zero-fee fork of Bitcoin.
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by deweller 5y ago
...for some definitions of "difficult" and "large mining pool"
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by deweller 5y ago
It is not difficult but it can end up being more hard-coded than it should be. The author of this package is attempting to help Laravel users standardize their API client code and centralize those hard-coded bits in one place. It isn't
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by deweller 5y ago
A false dichotomy is when one argues that only option A or option B are available when in fact options C, D, and E also exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
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by deweller 5y ago
This is a false dichotomy. They can subsidize the startup costs for harvesting geothermal energy from Bitcoin mining and then use the geothermal infrastructure to produce electricity for the country.

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