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by gst 9y ago
Is the rate shown when placing an order guaranteed or an estimate?
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by gst 9y ago
> No one wants to touch US residents when cryptocurrencies are involved. It's not only cryptocurrencies. As soon as you're taxable in the United States it's pretty much impossible to get a brokerage account at most Europea
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by gst 9y ago
Here's another story: Long ago I tried to withdraw my BTC, but after clicking the withdrawal button the browser tab was stuck waiting for the HTTP response. So after a while I opened a second tab and tried to withdraw again. Both withd
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by gst 9y ago
Non-standard transactions aren't usually included by miners, but as far as I understand Bitcoin miners are still free to include those transactions if they want to. Wouldn't this mean that a malicious miner would be able to replay
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by gst 9y ago
> Is there anytime similar about the 1-2.5% fee merchants have to pay to utilize this service? I'd bet Visa, MasterCard, and AMEX are making a fortune off all these transactions. My current primary credit card (Alliant's CashBa
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by gst 9y ago
> For Ethereum, was/is it possible to sell your coins on the fork you're not interested in? Yes. There was no replay protection (transactions were valid on both chains) but soon after the fork people created smart contracts tha
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by gst 9y ago
> 1) Arresting btc-e admin made all US customers to lose their balances on btc-e exchange. I highly doubt btc-e will come back online. I wouldn't be too sure about the US having control over the BTC-e wallets. Their Ethereum hot wal
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by gst 9y ago
> Likewise any cryptocurrency cannot be forceably stolen by the threat of state violence -- the math does not permit it. You're underestimating violence. They just need the key: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/secu
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by gst 9y ago
That's essentially what happens in real life in some places: Don't pay for the fire department (although you should have known better) and in case of a fire the fire department will protect your neighbor's house, but will wat
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by gst 9y ago
> Bitcoin disabled most of the smart contracts op codes for a very good reason. Bitcoin is also stuck in the past. Yes, Ethereum breaks things, but for me it's not about the money but about the technology stack. We're too early
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by gst 9y ago
There are lots of different languages targeting EVM. The (IMO) most promising so far is https://github.com/ethereum/viper
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by gst 9y ago
Exchange as much as possible via Shapeshift (accessed via Tor) and other exchanges that don't care about KYC to Zcash, Monero, and BTC. BTC is not anonymous but it's unlikely that BTC transactions are blocked and it will allow to
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by gst 9y ago
Because handling cash is expensive too, so the transaction cost was probably already priced in.
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by gst 9y ago
> One of the hugely compelling benefits of cryptocurrencies is they entirely eliminate the necessity for such middlemen taking a cut and driving up costs for the parties actually partaking in the transaction. Without more efficient means
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Moving Yelp's Core Business Search to Elasticsearch(engineeringblog.yelp.com)
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by gst 9y ago
> long term harm to the value of ETH I don't see why this is a problem. The goal of the Ethereum developers is to increase the utility of the network, not to artificially inflate the value of ETH. In fact for one of the future Ether
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by gst 9y ago
As a customer, why would I want to use Bitcoin (instead of, e.g., a credit card) at a movie theater (or at any other type of shop)?
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by gst 10y ago
> If anyone else attempted to patent an unpatented part they claim they invented it first and will be awarded the patent (because it is their patent). If anyone uses an unpatented part they just file for the patent and sue when they&#x27
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by gst 10y ago
Does the library directly use the Bitcoin protocol? I had the impression that it only uses the Rest API of the individual exchanges interact with them.
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by gst 10y ago
> The mantra is "file your taxes before someone else does", because the number of people who are submitting their tax form only to find out it's already been submitted is greater than ever before. The IRS is liable for los
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by gst 10y ago
I don't have my personal laptop with me when travelling (because personal phone and work laptop is sufficient). So that's not really an option.
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by gst 10y ago
> Usually phrased as “I don’t know my password it is in a password manager which I can’t access.” Or, “there is 2FA setup and I don’t have my second factor.” Or other similar technicality. This approach seems to be based on the belief th
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by gst 10y ago
Should have left the country and moved to Germany while he had the chance. Afaik Germany doesn't extradite its own citizens. Question to the legal experts here: Assuming he manages to board a German ship and to enter international wate
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by gst 10y ago
> If you make above about $100k, the US demands taxes on your income, even if you earned the money locally and have never stepped foot in the US. Doesn't the income tax treaty help in that case? Quoting from https://www.i
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by gst 10y ago
Does the provider that currently holds the number need to release the number when it's transfered? Or can any random provider port out my number from my current provider?
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by gst 10y ago
I've used Facebook 2FA for quite a long time now and all of my browsers are configured to clear cookies on exit (and to disallow 3rd party cookies). Didn't have any issues with activating 2FA.
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by gst 10y ago
Every free centralized messaging service at some point needs to find a business model that finances the platform. Right now the (IMO) best choice are decentralized messaging protocols such as XMPP ( https://xmpp.org/ ) or Mat
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by gst 10y ago
That's what I did before I knew about Brave. If I don't have a choice I'd use whatever browser provides adblocking, but with a choice I'd prefer a Chromium-based browser.
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by gst 10y ago
In general I agree. My only current exception is that I use Brave[1] instead of Chrome on Android, because Chrome is missing adblocking. It appears that the company behind Brave is large enough to keep the fork somewhat up to date (compared
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by gst 10y ago
> This is going to be a problem. Student debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, debtors simply garnish wages. I studied in Austria so I'm not too familiar with how student loans in the US work, but as far as I know the Income Base

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