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by everfree 3y ago
Centralized node services cannot screw you over other than refusing to provide service. Even when using a centralized node, your wallet still manages its own keys.
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by everfree 3y ago
The algo is still memory hard, but it is no longer ETH's algo. I agree with everything you're saying, so it seems I just got tripped up on semantics.
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by everfree 3y ago
What do you think we should do, other than "tolerate" it? Should we go back to the era of illegal numbers?
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by everfree 3y ago
That's not how it works. There's negligible "overhead" to paint a famous work of art, but that doesn't mean the sale price of the art will be negligible too. That's because like fine art, the mechanism that pro
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by everfree 3y ago
> ETH's PoW algo is memory hard Note: Was memory hard. ETH's PoW algo was abandoned by the main chain as of last year.
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by everfree 3y ago
> AI's power usage is performing useful calculations A lot of AI's power usage is going towards generating images, or writing fiction, or doing any number of other things that don't help people improve any kind of physical
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by everfree 3y ago
Many people would argue that it's ethical to break an unjust law, and in fact that's the only way any real societal progress has been made. From drug decriminalization (including alcohol), to minority rights, to the very founding
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by everfree 3y ago
How? I would be hard pressed to find someone who could more cheaply and easily smuggle physical dollars into Argentina than they could smuggle in stablecoins.
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by everfree 3y ago
Allowing anyone from any country with a smartphone the ability to hold and transact in US dollars, for one. On a side note, "can't be done without blockchain" is not the bar to clear here. The bar is "could be improved b
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by everfree 3y ago
This is a link to a cryptocurrency gambling affiliate website, for anyone missing that. The article is dubiously unsourced and I can spot several inaccuracies just from reading it, so it's likely the rest of the data in the article is
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by everfree 3y ago
If all blog hosts make all links nofollow, nofollow will cease to be a meaningful signal and search engines will start ignoring it.
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by everfree 3y ago
> The chain is very mutable! How would SegWit and other changes have been implemented otherwise? Through backwards-compatible soft forks. Nobody removed the ability to make non-segwit transactions. SegWit did not change the existing tran
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by everfree 3y ago
I'm referring to the immutability of issuance and balances. That's the type of immutability that matters.
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by everfree 3y ago
I care about the chain being immutable. A chain forked in my favor is a chain I don't care about.
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by everfree 3y ago
The value of bitcoin lies in its immutability. That's the only thing it really has left going for it.
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by everfree 3y ago
As long as I don't change my mind, my wallet software will not see any of those changes as legitimate, just as it didn't see Bitcoin Cash or Bitcoin SV as legitimate.
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by everfree 3y ago
International wire transfer scams are still somewhat common. The amount of convicted perpetrators is surprisingly low. The best tool we have against them is prevention. In practice, this usually means a friendly bank employee refusing to ho
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by everfree 3y ago
And the software of the bitcoin clients is at least in theory determined by the users. If someone alters the amount of bitcoins out there, my wallet software won't recognize those bitcoins as legitimate.
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by everfree 3y ago
SWIFT is a decentralized system with irreversible transactions.
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by everfree 3y ago
> Other than the basic human trait of greed and gambling, get rich quick schemes, criminal and nefarious purposes, etc I have no idea how any of this is still a "thing". I think you asked and answered your own question. It&#x27
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by everfree 3y ago
> only driven by market forces Which money are you talking about? Most monies are driven substantially by monetary policy and other direct government intervention. The very reason fiat is no longer finite is due to government interventio
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by everfree 3y ago
To replace broken glasses, or buy a second pair.
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by everfree 3y ago
Bitcoin's primitive is sha256(sha256(x)). There's zero reason anyone would ever use a funky construction like that for password hashing.
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by everfree 3y ago
Why stay away from QLC? Does it not have its place in high-read low-write consumer workloads, such as software or media libraries?
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by everfree 3y ago
If I'm correctly reading the comment you're replying to, it was against the law for WD to void the warranty. So, the warranty was not void.
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by everfree 3y ago
Ethereum has 1% dips regularly, on the hourly. In crypto, that’s generally considered very stable.
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by everfree 3y ago
Ethereum's daily trading volume is $7 billion, so it's likely that $1 billion would hardly affect its valuation.
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by everfree 3y ago
> One small slip-and-fall, one other careless driver on the road with you, one infection, etc is all it takes and suddenly you've got to struggle through life to make anything work. Or just over time. Everyone gets there by their 80
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by everfree 3y ago
Upcharging banks aren't the only option, you can use a non-profit credit union.
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by everfree 3y ago
FedNow is a push-only system. It cannot be used to pull a debit, only to push a credit.

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