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40 Yr Stanford Study Found People with Delayed Gratification More Likely Succeed(jamesclear.com)
38 points by elmar 9y ago|26 comments
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by elmar 9y ago
Yes, I thought of that but probably IE6 will be a CryptoCurrency launched by a big company like Facebook, Apple or other.
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by elmar 9y ago
Will Bitcoin be remembered as the Netscape of the CryptoCurrency Bubble? The question is who is going to be the Chrome Browser and Firefox?
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BitPay Now Charges Two Fees to Complete Bitcoin Transactions(newsbtc.com)
1 points by elmar 9y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin owners, you need to do these two things right now(hackernoon.com)
2 points by elmar 9y ago|1 comments
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by elmar 9y ago
If you care about privacy normally mining your own coins it's the best way to get 100% privacy.
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Monero Compatible Bulletproofs(getmonero.org)
2 points by elmar 9y ago|0 comments
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UK Government to Enlist the Help of Spies to Crack Bitcoin’s Enigma(newsbtc.com)
2 points by elmar 9y ago|0 comments
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by elmar 9y ago
Kevin, I just love the graphical look of Spectacle, hope you and your team have the greatest success on this passion project. Regarding the UBI personally I think if someone manages to make it work without the government I am all for it. It
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Multi-Billion Dollar Japanese Tech Conglomerate to Pay Employees in Bitcoin(cryptocoinsnews.com)
1 points by elmar 9y ago|0 comments
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by elmar 9y ago
For the SEC looks like there’s a clear difference between pure crypto-for-its-value and as utility to run a network (like ETH or BTC) and tokens which are sold in some ICO with the promise of gains in return (or shares in some structure), e
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by elmar 9y ago
On the video "Howey Test" the most interesting part for me is at the end (2:55) https://youtu.be/9lTS1Zofw8w?t=175 Where if no single person or group is in charge, and decisions are taken by all, is no longer cons
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by elmar 9y ago
I would dare to say that even Ethereum and some other alt-coins should be considered securities using this test.
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by elmar 9y ago
What Is the Howey Test? - FindLaw http://consumer.findlaw.com/securities-law/what-is-the-howey... "The final factor of the Howey Test concerns whether any profit that comes from the investment is largely or wholly
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by elmar 9y ago
What about CryptoKitties? is it a security using the "Howey Test"?
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by elmar 9y ago
Using the "Howey Test" even CryptoKitties should be regulated by the SEC!
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by elmar 9y ago
> 1. It is an investment of money 2. There is an expectation of profits from the investment 3. The investment of money is in a common enterprise 4. Any profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third party --------
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by elmar 9y ago
thanks but I am looking for the opposite not the fastest but the slowest.
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by elmar 9y ago
It worked wonderfully as an speculative investment and that correlates to working as a store of value there's a subtle diference.
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by elmar 9y ago
"No one anticipated pool mining, so we considered all miners to be full nodes and almost all full nodes to be miners. https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshis-best-kept-secret-why...
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by elmar 9y ago
Anyone knows where I can sort cryptocurrencies by block time? BTW anyone knows what is the cryptocurrency with the highest block time?
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Why Scaling Bitcoin with Sharding Is Very Hard (2015)(petertodd.org)
72 points by elmar 9y ago|23 comments
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by elmar 9y ago
Currently buying Bitcoin is a very similar risk profile to buying stock of Facebook, where the value is highly correlated to the network effect, so even as a store of value Bitcoin doesn't work very well because of volatility, we will
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by elmar 9y ago
One big problem of the incentive system of Bitcoin is that it doesn't reward "Full-node operation" only "Mining operation", the result would be a more distributed and democratic system.
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Courtney Love does the math on record label profits (2000)(salon.com)
4 points by elmar 9y ago|0 comments
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by elmar 9y ago
In my view Bitcoin as a very important flaw it's distribution timing it should have been scheduled with a more linear curve and to last at least 100 years so you can achieve a fairer distribution or alternatively to have a small inflat
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How to speed up Ethereum in the face of Crypto-Kitties(medium.com)
2 points by elmar 9y ago|0 comments
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by elmar 9y ago
CryptoKitties that's the real bubble.
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The Big Business of CryptoKitties Is Being Automated(motherboard.vice.com)
4 points by elmar 9y ago|0 comments
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A guy tricked Tripadvisor into making his garden shed the top-rated Rest. London(boingboing.net)
3 points by elmar 9y ago|0 comments

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