elmar

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by elmar 9y ago
>(and also enabling things like money laundering, drug trafficking, etc.) "Darknet markets are no longer a major use of Bitcoin, accounting for less than 1% of Bitcoin transactions in 2017" https://blog.chainalysis.c
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Report: The Changing Nature of Cryptocrime(blog.chainalysis.com)
1 points by elmar 9y ago|0 comments
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An Efficient-Markets Valuation Framework for Cryptoassets Using Black-Scholes(medium.com)
2 points by elmar 9y ago|0 comments
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President Trump Bans U.S. Citizens from Buying Venezuelan Cryptocurrency Petro(fortune.com)
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by elmar 9y ago
and the developers of the software what would be the legal standing if they are residents of countries like the USA? could they be persecuted as facilitators of the ilegal distribution?
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by elmar 9y ago
"illegal pornography, can render the mere possession of a blockchain illegal." I see this as a very strong legal attack vector on full nodes and cryptocurrencies, probably a way around it, is to only allow meta information on a cr
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Bitcoin 'Misery Index'(investopedia.com)
10 points by elmar 9y ago|7 comments
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A summary of why IOTA’s refutation of a vulnerability by DCI labs is absurd(medium.com)
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by elmar 9y ago
> You might find Blockstack interesting. I didn't know this project I normally hate ICO's (including the original Ethereum ICO) from what I have read on the information you so kindly shared it looks like a much more sensible ap
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by elmar 9y ago
> There really isn't any argument for why flying cars aren't much more difficult than self driving vehicles. On a software level Self-flying aircraft are much more simple than self-driving cars, there exist today technologies t
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by elmar 9y ago
> However engineering decisions 'on genesis' was over 3-4 years ago and at that time doing a blockchain with smart contracts was already challenge on itself. It's not really fair Sorry when I heard about Ethereum plans 4 y
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by elmar 9y ago
My view, of course, every decision as a trade-off, everything i say is controversial - The main ledger and smart contracts should be separated, everyone smart contract is public, why?? the smart contracts should be run on several specific s
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by elmar 9y ago
the eclipse and the "event horizon" images are somewhat similar.
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by elmar 9y ago
visually an eclipse is just a 'Black Hole in the Sky' :)
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by elmar 9y ago
> black hole of awesome stuff that loses your funds, that is the bad part.
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by elmar 9y ago
the image in the article is really appropriated, the Turing complete VM of ethereum is a black hole of bugs, on the Genesis, some really bad engineering decisions were made and probably now is too late to change it.
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by elmar 9y ago
Link without pop-ups http://archive.is/V0xLB It's a review of a book that is crammed with adulteries, alcoholism, betrayals, broken friendships, deportations, deprivation, drug addiction, executions, humiliation, illic
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by elmar 9y ago
Bitcoin can only be slowed down not stopped other centralized cryptos like Ripple can be shut down.
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by elmar 9y ago
Updated post with source - Yves Smith @yvessmith
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by elmar 9y ago
"If you are using either Uber or Lyft, stop. Now. You are contributing directly to the growth of the precariat and the debasement of work. The fact that you use an app to distance yourself from the exploitation of desperate and not ver
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by elmar 9y ago
a business model based on the lack of mathematical and financial skills of the participants.
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by elmar 9y ago
This study only confirms the unspoken word for many years. Looks like these ride-sharing services are a race to the bottom, the only ones that are better off are the users.
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Ethereum Founder Hoskinson May Cover Legal Fees for IOTA Critic(newsbtc.com)
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by elmar 9y ago
> So does USD by that measure. I speculate that the net result scaled for size is much bigger in Bitcoin :)
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by elmar 9y ago
With what the military complex is paid? With what are drugs bought and sold? .... .... If we follow Bill logic, the guns that are used in school shootings were bought using US dollars so the US dollar is responsible for the deaths. I though
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by elmar 9y ago
and also Bitcoin as saved many lives, just look at the astonishing quantity of Bitcoins that have been given to charity.
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by elmar 9y ago
Probably the major cause of deaths in the world is the US Dollar, and BTW Bill is totally outdated everyone doing something fishy as moved to Monero by now.
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by elmar 9y ago
"Minority Report"
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by elmar 9y ago
> And how does your Kenyan/North Korean/Syrian person buy gasoline/rice/paper with this asset? Ideally, the seller would accept the cryptocurrency directly, that is what is happening on Venezuela that the country curr
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by elmar 9y ago
Imagine that you want to hire a woman that is a blog writer on a radical Musulin country (where woman don't have the right to property) how you are going to pay for the services. Imagine that you want to hire a remote software develope

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