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by eric_cc 4y ago
> There should be a law Because what we really need is MORE LAWS and more power for the government!! Think of the children!!
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by eric_cc 4y ago
> The only thing it's useful for is financial crime though Privacy is only useful for crime?
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Won't happen because USD buying power has gone down considerably since 2017 due to The Fed printing money out of thin air like there is no tomorrow.
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by eric_cc 4y ago
> It's the greater fool theory. Is BTC any more greater fool than USD? If so, why do you believe so?
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by eric_cc 4y ago
> USD money printer. So we know USD is a scam and manipulated heavily. Learn about The Fed.. > BTC And here we have an alternative. This is one of the primary reasons why BTC is so important.
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> blaming the victim You're missing the point. When somebody makes a poor decision on an investment, they are not a "victim".
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by eric_cc 4y ago
> If people cant handle the basic of investing they shouldnt do it. Amen to this. Too many people in this thread are shouting from the mountain tops that they hate freedom. If you can't handle climbing a mountain, you shouldn't
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by eric_cc 4y ago
> You will laugh at the people who bought into FOMOCoin or sent thousands of dollars to a refund scammer... only to click on, say, a fake FedEx tracking link you got e-mailed and wind up getting hit with some 0day malware that drains you
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by eric_cc 4y ago
> Half of this thread believes we should protect people from themselves. > The other half believes people should have the freedom to screw themselves over. Nailed it. It comes down to principles. Do you believe in personal freedom? Or
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by eric_cc 4y ago
> people are not (and we do not expect them to be) experts in investment. So then they should stay out of the game. I totally disagree that we need a bunch of bullshit laws protecting people from poor decision making.
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> many poorer and financially illeterate people have been tricked > they don't deserve to lose their money Do you not believe that people should be responsible for their actions? It's sad when people make decisions that lead
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by eric_cc 4y ago
Blockchain itself solves trust problems. Decentralized database/ledger solves issues where trust matters. As for bitcoin itself, which I assume the latter part of your comment is talking about: It’s predictable trustless money. It’s no
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by eric_cc 4y ago
I'll never understand the bitter hatred toward blockchain at hackernews. Are you guys just mad you knew about bitcoin when it first started but didn't get any? You can't possibly truly believe blockchain solves zero problems
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by eric_cc 4y ago
You’re making big assumptions here. You assume I want to post shithead things. I’m actually afraid to simply speculate about the world in general. Countless people are being trained to think a certain way and take offense to free thinking.
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by eric_cc 4y ago
You raise great points and I don’t have all the answers. But I don’t believe it’s impossible to achieve such a framework given the time to work out issues like those you’ve described. > you have simply reinvented the state If you could r
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by eric_cc 4y ago
> There's no potential scenario where that happens Maybe not in your lifetime. But you’re not practicing long-term thinking here. Global, trustless, decentralized networks allow humanity to fundamentally reorganize. Physical, nation
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by eric_cc 4y ago
Ah gotcha. Agree that no one man is going to stop a nation state from using Physical violence to achieve their goal.
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by eric_cc 4y ago
There is functional value to NFT’s. Think beyond JPEG NFT’s. If you’re a software engineer, consider building a decentralized system with unique instances of a model. Unique tokens make a lot of sense to me and certainly there is utility to
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by eric_cc 4y ago
But in theory, a decentralized framework consisting of smart contracts and NFT’s could work. In such a framework, the NFT would be providing real utility (unlike scammy JPEG NFT’s)
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NFT bag holders may actually believe what they’re saying in which case they aren’t scamming. I think to scam you must be operating under nefarious intentions.
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by eric_cc 4y ago
NFT art pointers are a scam. There are use cases for unique tokens that aren’t scams. However, such use cases have nothing to do with investing or attempting to get rich.
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by eric_cc 4y ago
Bitcoin is attempting to BE value better than fiat. There is a possibility that we eventually achieve a bitcoin circular economy. In such a scenario, Bitcoin does not go up or down against fiat because there will be no demand for fiat.
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by eric_cc 4y ago
> if a government wants to freeze your crypto assets, they can do so easily. Lol source?
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NFT art pointers != crypto != bitcoin
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by eric_cc 4y ago
When you willingly take financial action with a smart contract, you are agreeing to the smart contract. The smart contract is code. While code is not “law” literally, in this case it is the lawful contract definition. How else can you possi
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by eric_cc 4y ago
A lot of us are afraid to post on Twitter because of the woke crowd and cancel culture.
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by eric_cc 5y ago
No fucking shit. Twitter needs leadership that won't censor.
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Blue Sky
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by eric_cc 5y ago
> Those are the rules of using the platform. .. that only get enforced on accounts that are political opponents of Twitter's agenda.
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by eric_cc 5y ago
> a free-speech absolutist You don't need to be an absolutist to be pretty disgusted with Twitter censorship.

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