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by dylkil 6y ago
you failed to name even one
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Atlantic trade lowered the probability of intra-European conflict by 15%(voxeu.org)
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by dylkil 6y ago
Facebook is the only opportunity at being market participants these people have, with its incredible low barrier to entry.
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Irish media spinning this as a win for the irish people, while there are ongoing talks of increasing income tax on normal people to help cover the cost of this pandemic. Disgraceful.
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by dylkil 6y ago
exactly my thoughts too
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by dylkil 6y ago
>Running a full node is the only way to assure the integrity of the currency. Increasing the block size decreases the number of people that run full nodes. where is the evidence for this? complete bullshit. How much fewer people would ru
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by dylkil 6y ago
Whats worse is Bitcoin's security depends on high fees, but you have articles like this celebrating low fees. Satoshi intended for bitcoin to scale to hundreds of millions of transactions, all paying sub cent fees. All those fees would
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by dylkil 6y ago
this will lengthen the trip by alot
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by dylkil 6y ago
>10 years of prison time for a single non-violent crime is extremely rare in America. Ross Ulbricht got double life imprisonment + 40 years for a non violent crime.
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Show HN: Paralleltext.io – Learn languages by reading a novel in 2 languages(paralleltext.io)
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by dylkil 6y ago
>Last revised: 6 May 2008 I wonder how relevant this will be to today.
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Looking Glass starts shipping its 8K holographic display(techcrunch.com)
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by dylkil 6y ago
For starters the whitepaper concludes that a 133mb base block size is needed for it to work at scale. Bitcoin currently has a 1mb block size limit, which it will never increase.
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by dylkil 6y ago
>Seriously though who the hell trusts FB. Nobody. 2.6 billion monthly active users beg to differ
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by dylkil 6y ago
its makes them alot of money, they would be fools not to
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by dylkil 6y ago
check the settings on your phone, the ones with location data access are selling it.
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by dylkil 6y ago
falls under trustless
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by dylkil 6y ago
>Wasn’t that whole point of these coins to begin with? The whole point was to have an open system where you dont place trust in or ask permission of someone to use. That still holds up in this scenario.
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by dylkil 6y ago
ive been searching development keywords for the guts of 5 years now, no invite.... i guess im not worthy
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by dylkil 6y ago
Seems like this is their first attempt at commoditising engagement. By using ethereum, the tokens are trade-able inside an already liquid system. It also removes trust from the equation.
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by dylkil 6y ago
start with mobile phones. The apps on your phone are tracking everything.
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by dylkil 6y ago
>One might suspect that if there is enough demand for the spending use case, then some other solutions might develop to increase the transaction throughput for that use case. The only valid solution is to increase the block size limit, a
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by dylkil 6y ago
ecdsa would be good
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by dylkil 6y ago
>Bitcoin is "hard money", the hardest the world has ever seen This is true in more than one way. with a 350k daily transaction limit, the more people that try to use it as money, the harder it is to use as money.
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by dylkil 6y ago
>Was he wrong about that, or has something changed since then? Nope he was right about that. What changed is blockstream took control of bitcoin development. They dont agree that on chain scaling is possible, and instead push proprietary
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by dylkil 6y ago
>Stealing data about the users its not stealing when the users agreed to it
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by dylkil 6y ago
>I'm just dead tired of all the jank in Ubuntu. im thinking about moving to ubuntu, what sort of jank is annoying you?
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by dylkil 6y ago
>I doubt even 1% of people would elect to host their own node The block size limit was kept small in order for everyone to be able to run their own node.
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by dylkil 6y ago
it is in the conclusion, 133mb not 155mb, my mistake "If all transactions using Bitcoin were conducted inside a network of micropayment channels, to enable 7 billion people to make two channels per year with unlimited tra
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by dylkil 6y ago
The lightning network whitepaper states a block size of 155mb is required for lightning to work at scale. Bitcoin has a 1mb block size with no hope of it ever increasing. I dont see this as a solution at all.

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