fidelramos

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by fidelramos 5y ago
> There have been more than enough examples (cough intel *cough) of monopolistic practices caused by unfair market practices. Using dominance to force suppliers to exclusive use of your products is not a practice enabled by the state. Mi
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by fidelramos 5y ago
> If you increase the block size, it will be seized by governments or large corporations. That doesn't make any sense. Any actor, like for example a government, might seize (control) a blockchain by having overwhelming mining majori
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by fidelramos 5y ago
I think you confuse free market with "no rules, everything is allowed", which is not what I am proposing. Those monopolies you mention in the abstract are largely possible because laws make it much more difficult than it could be
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by fidelramos 5y ago
> But as far as I know the maximal number of transactions is capped in practice. What do you mean? There are no hard technical impediments to Bitcoin being able to scale to worldwide usage with basically the same structure as today. It&#
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by fidelramos 5y ago
I didn't say "no government" or "no laws", I asked for free market. For a free market to work one of the important aspects is open competition with low barriers of entry. I believe most governments today do the oppo
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by fidelramos 5y ago
I completely agree, increasing the maximum block size is the simplest way to scale. Bitcoin BTC refused to do that, keeping the 1 MiB maximum block size instituted by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2010 as a spam-prevention measure, which led to raisi
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by fidelramos 5y ago
But computer chips, telecommunications, the electric grid, etc., don't require for governments to exist for them to exist and work. I would even argue that they would work better and more efficiently under a free market economy, so gov
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by fidelramos 5y ago
That is one of the important points point made by jtoomin in the first post of this thread: the energy consumption of a PoW blockchain if not proportional to the number of transactions. This means we could have everyone, everywhere, using a
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by fidelramos 5y ago
I'm not a BCH maximalist, I just want the world to benefit from sound Electronic Peer-to-Peer cash, and BCH works for that today , and is a good candidate for the future. I would use Algorand if it worked, was decentralized (haven&#x2
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by fidelramos 5y ago
Bitcoin Cash exists to continue the original scaling plan for Bitcoin: increasing the maximum block size. I watched the Bitcoin scaling debate back in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and every attempt was made to increase BTC's maximum block size
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by fidelramos 5y ago
There are no technical reasons keeping Bitcoin from achieving universal usage (50 daily transactions for each of 10 billion humans) while keeping fees low. This article has a great analysis of not just the technology but the economics and d
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by fidelramos 5y ago
There are a lot of BTC maximalists that see any alternative cryptocurrency as a scam, something which is definitely not true for many of them that have thousands of daily active users. I also feel that many BTC maximalists don't apprec
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by fidelramos 5y ago
Bitcoin was never supposed to be capped at 7 transactions per second, there are no technical reasons for that limit to exist anymore (it was added in 2010 as a temporary measure). Until (if) Bitcoin BTC decides to scale people can use the B
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by fidelramos 6y ago
Simple, remove or reduce all barriers to employment: - No minimum wage laws. - Reduce or remove taxes paid by companies. - Reduce or remove forced social contributions by companies on behalf of the workers. - Remove bureaucracy and taxes to
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by fidelramos 6y ago
Part of the complication if the enormous taxes and bureaucracy involved in companies hiring workers, it's a real pain for start-ups and smaller companies. I will give you one concrete example: companies in Spain with more than 50 worke
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by fidelramos 6y ago
We don't need to work 40 hours a week to "barely survive", these 40 hours give people a standard of living that was unthinkable centuries ago. If you accept the lower standards of living of the past you can work much fewer ho
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by fidelramos 6y ago
2021: Beeple sells the NFT for a composite JPG for $69 million dollars. [1] [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2021/03/11/beeple-ar...
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by fidelramos 6y ago
It's not exactly what you are asking for, but KeepassXC supports OnlyKey [0], and OnlyKeys can enter a password just pressing a button, plus they have HMAC support, so the KeepassXC experience can be: 1. Plug in Onlykey and unlock if n
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by fidelramos 6y ago
It would have been great if you had switched from BTC to BCH (Bitcoin Cash), as it maintains all the good things about Bitcoin while keeping fees low (<$0.01). That would have been easier than switching to ERC20 tokens, and it would have
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by fidelramos 6y ago
I don't think anybody wants to pay capital gains taxes when purchasing things with cryptocurrencies. Fortunately there are countries with a sane tax policy regarding cryptocurrencies where you don't pay taxes on cryptocurrencies,
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by fidelramos 6y ago
I have been working on multiple side projects, which is probably a bad idea when I cannot get myself to finish (or launch an MVP) or even one of them. My most ambitious one is a web gallery that allows navigating a Digikam [0] photo collect
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by fidelramos 6y ago
The entities running the simulation knew you would think like that, which is why they put Elon Musk there so the simulated you thinks "nah, if I were simulated my life would be awesome".
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by fidelramos 6y ago
I chat, share files and make calls with Signal's desktop client. What am I missing?
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by fidelramos 6y ago
It doesn't leak information to the website but even worse it leaks your information to Google.
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by fidelramos 6y ago
Yes, and this is what blockchain notaries like notary.bitcoin.com do.
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by fidelramos 6y ago
Not just the block reward, Bitcoin miners also receive the sum of the fees of the transactions included on each block. The idea with the progressively diminishing block reward is that transaction fees will represent a larger share of miners
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by fidelramos 6y ago
I see that LocalCDN is a fork of Decentraleyes [0]. Personally I'm very careful with the extensions I install in my browsers, but the new features of LocalCDN are interesting, I hope they get picked up by upstream at some point. [0] h
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by fidelramos 6y ago
From the article: > Each A2DP service, of possibly many, is designed to uni-directionally transfer an audio stream in up to 2 channel stereo, either to or from the Bluetooth host. This matches what I has heard: Bluetooth devices with A2D
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by fidelramos 6y ago
Do you have some reference I can follow about that? Because I thought that A2DP not supporting microphone was a Bluetooth protocol limitation.
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by fidelramos 6y ago
I just want to +1 this is a mostly-positive user who mostly upvotes rather than comment. I'm sure there's plenty of us, so don't feel discouraged.

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