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by gst 4y ago
I think QR menus are great if it's possible to also directly order and pay from the phone. Especially when going out in large groups where you don't want to necessarily split the bill or where the organizer doesn't want to ri
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by gst 4y ago
> Doing a 2.0 release on a (US) 2-day holiday weekend is an interesting move. Their HQ seems to be located in London.
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by gst 4y ago
Deposits for USDT (SOL) have been re-enabled again: https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/deposits-of-...
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by gst 4y ago
I don't disagree here. My point was just that the interest that you see on exchanges is not directly related to the stablecoins. I'm not sure if there are any legal or regulatory issues that would prevent stablecoins from getting
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by gst 4y ago
> The cryptocoin community wants 6%, 10%, 18%+ returns on their "stablecoins". As far as I know the two largest stablecoins (Tether and USDC) do not pay any interest. The interest that some exchanges pay on stablecoin balances
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by gst 4y ago
We might be talking about two different things here when using the term "staking". I'm referring to coins that are staked by validators in a proof-of-stake chain. The "other side of the trade" is not someone borrowi
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by gst 4y ago
I'm not going to predict any crypto future, but here's a counter point: If crypto has a future (not saying it will) then it's essential to drive bad actors out of the market (which is happening right now).
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by gst 4y ago
> Except the consumer is drawn to the crypto-exchanges with significant "staking" rewards. Like Crypto.com or FTX. Staking itself wouldn't be a problem. There would be some risk involved in case of technical problems (for
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by gst 4y ago
> There’s also some very interesting discussion at the end about preventing runs: first if banks can suspend withdrawals, and second through central bank backing. I’ll avoid summarizing it because I’m too dumb — but to quote: “Deposit in
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by gst 4y ago
> EasyList is hosted on Github and proxied with CloudFlare. What is the reason for proxying through Cloudflare? Are there any bandwidth limits or performance issues when directly serving those files from GitHub?
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by gst 4y ago
> notably post qualcomm pixel phones from google have five years of guaranteed updates. (pixel 6 and above) 5 years of security updates. Still only 3 years of guaranteed Android version upgrades: https://support.google.com&#x2
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by gst 4y ago
> Qualcomm has been a big culprit in this for many years now. They refuse to support their chipsets for too long, because they can reduce expenses not having to maintain them, and more importantly they make more money selling more chipse
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by gst 4y ago
The same example also goes into the opposite direction: Let's assume your phone gets stolen in a foreign country: With a regular SIM card I lost my phone service for the remainder of the trip. With an eSIM I can buy another phone (that
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by gst 4y ago
> the U.S. person must deny all parties access to that virtual currency With Bitcoin that would be relatively straightforward: Just ignore the UTXO because the incoming funds are clearly separated from any preexisting funds. But with Eth
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by gst 4y ago
In Apple's video it sounds like there's 2-way communication: https://youtu.be/V35jHAkpUIk (at about 1:20 in the video)
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by gst 4y ago
It's different on the 48MP Quad Bayer iPhone sensor: Instead of something like RGBRGBRGB for the subpixels the subpixels are layed out as RRGGBBRRGGBB (in both dimensions). So while those additional subpixels provide some additional in
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by gst 4y ago
> but as a digital simulation from 1x and thereby only at 12MP, and so it isn't fundamentally different than my existing phone My understanding is that it's even worse than that, as the 48MP sensor isn't a regular sensor b
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by gst 4y ago
> The reverse might be theoretically possible during activation (if you feed the QR code to your own custom device and your software implementation doesn't guard the keys, letting you copy those freely), but I suspect there is some
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by gst 4y ago
> I don't know engineering wise why China model phones can't ship with both dual physical slots and support any combo of two physical/eSIM. There doesn't appear to be any obvious technical limitation. As far as I know
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by gst 4y ago
> Everyone who uses the carrier gets the same code. I don't think that this is always the case: For my eSIM at T-Mobile US it was as you described: The QR code appeared to be a general QR code and T-Mobile seems to have recognized m
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by gst 4y ago
> Canadian roaming rates are so utterly shit the SIM card comes out the second I'm on the plane. It's like $15 per day to roam in the EU. Not per month, per day, let that sink in... I can get a plan in Europe for 30€ month that
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by gst 4y ago
> Solend realised this, and took a vote on seizing this amount (effectively removing the tokens from the owner's ownership and preventing them from exiting their position) requiring only 1% of token holders to approve. The vote pass
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by gst 4y ago
Anything after Jan 1 2020 is probably not a good comparison due to the Covid-related market volatility. Anything before could also make sense (personally I have a long term target so I care more about longer time ranges), but would be even
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by gst 4y ago
Because a well diversified portfolio is a good comparison/reference for individual investments. A better choice than S&P 500 would probably be the FTSE Global All Cap Index.
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by gst 4y ago
Under certain conditions HODLing can be an ok strategy. Assuming my investments are diversified enough and Bitcoin is only a small percentage of my overall net worth, why deal with the stress of active investing and trying to time the marke
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by gst 4y ago
There are different approaches for that based on different assumptions and based on which risk level you prefer. My favorite strategy is the one outlined here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345065.0 (here's a
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by gst 4y ago
In 2020 and 2021 Bitcoin went from less than $10k to $60k in a couple of months. Now it did basically the same but in the opposite direction, except that we're currently at $18k instead of $10k. I wouldn't buy at either price, but
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by gst 4y ago
Less than two years ago Bitcoin traded below $10k. It's a volatile asset so of course it's going to go down as fast as it goes up. This doesn't mean that this is the end of Bitcoin, just that yet another Bitcoin bubble is def
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by gst 4y ago
But it's only an issues for other connected entities when they are using risky business practices themselves. A stablecoin that backs its assets in the currency that the stablecoin issues (for example a USD-based stablecoin that is bac
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by gst 4y ago
> In crypto, there is no buffer. Auto liquidation of undercollateralized positions occurs. All of those humans in the loop, “unfair rules”, and settlement delays crypto proponents complain about are the very things that make traditional

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