heptathorp

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by heptathorp 8y ago
Why would the exchange care if you are running a highly successful trading strategy?
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by heptathorp 8y ago
We can oppose marginalizing people and oppose killing people at the same time. Your comment is a good example of whataboutism.
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by heptathorp 9y ago
It all came from the MetaMask faucet https://ropsten.etherscan.io/address/0x81b7e08f65bdf5648606c... through numerous intermediary addresses (maybe the faucet limits the amount of ETH it will send to the same address,
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by heptathorp 9y ago
You owe income tax on the value at the time you earned the income... If you later sold it for more, you owe tax on the gains.
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by heptathorp 9y ago
> It is a very inefficiently designed public ledger governed by a highly centralized group of developers who can change it on a whim. But they can't just change it without the network going along with the change. And, after all, it
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by heptathorp 9y ago
Now if only we had native-ad blocking.
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by heptathorp 9y ago
What do you put the coffee in when you roast it on the stove? And how strong is the smell when it's roasting? I want to roast at home but I'm afraid neighbors may complain if the odor is too much.
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by heptathorp 9y ago
It's the same case for Ethereum. Blocks are bound by total gas, and you can ensure your transaction is included into a block quicker by paying a higher gas fee, if you are willing. For about $0.40 you can get an ETH transfer into a blo
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by heptathorp 9y ago
It could be misleading to look at volume. For example how much of that $6.8B is due to wash trading? Also Bitcoin is paired with literally hundreds of altcoins, which make up a portion of that volume. We would want to focus on how much BTC
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by heptathorp 9y ago
The claim is this phenomenon exists even without printing unbacked tethers. > Even IF Tether is NOT running a fraud
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by heptathorp 9y ago
If someone sells bitcoin for tether (because they want to redeem the tether and collect 20 cent profit) the price of bitcoin goes down, not up.
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by heptathorp 9y ago
If that's in the GDAX TOS, it's an unnecessary disclaimer. The best Bid and Ask are by definition not the same price, otherwise one or the other order would have been at market and matched against the other, and there is always a
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by heptathorp 9y ago
Can anyone explain how this "arbitraged feedback loop" allegedly works? Arbitrage causes prices to converge, not spiral up or down.
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by heptathorp 9y ago
Are we playing code golf with email? TO: Jane SUBJECT: Bug XYZ blocked. Feature ABC? BODY:
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by heptathorp 9y ago
It also doesn't appear to be checking if a goal has already been set as failed, so someone could fail their goal repeatedly and drain the contract of all its funds.
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by heptathorp 9y ago
This reads like it was written by an algorithm. A lot of sentences strung together that don't convey any meaning. > Another story is how my sister asked me the other day to explain how I see language. I answered without hesitating:
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by heptathorp 9y ago
1. How does the entire network just agree to switch to a new algorithm? How do they decide what the new algorithm is? 2. When everybody forks off of the compromised chain, haven't we effectively created an altcoin? What is the value of
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by heptathorp 9y ago
> $500 mil right now is 61,000 BTC. There are currently 16,700,000 BTC in circulation. Making the Tether stuff only equate to 0.3% of all Bitcoin. That's also not the correct way to look at it. The price hasn't been a constant
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by heptathorp 9y ago
Do NOT use r̔ͩegͩ̾ͪͥͪeͮ͊ͨ̓xͫ͆͆̓ ͤt͊͗o̒̾͋ͬ̾̚ ͆̌͌̄p͠a͟r̐̎͆̽̄ͭ́se̒ͥ ͕̪̻̭̭̺̳ͣͬͪͫͪj̞̲ͤ̚s̡̳̟̤̳̖̤͒̋ͣ͊ͤ͗̿oͬ̀͆n̮̳͚̝̩͙͔̈͋ ̮͕̩̼̔̾̈̄̋ͦ́́̚ͅĤ̷̝̯̝ͯ̈́ͣ̔ͪ̊ͬ͜͡Eͬͧ҉̜̰̲̩̰̝̠̥ ̶̯̯͚̗̪̭̘ͨͩͭ̎ͧͮCͪ҉̖͍͔͚͚̯͕Ơ̰̻̂̅̋̇̓̅͌M̸̭̱̭̥͆̽ͨͦÊ̸̴̢̪͚̮̲̜̙̍ͤ͋̾ͦS̛̗̟͙͍̹͈̳ͣ͑̏̓ͤͦ̽
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by heptathorp 9y ago
> Once you have blocks on the chain greater than 1mb, those blocks must be valid forever. That means protocol must support new blocksize forever. You could have the consensus rules take the block height into consideration, so blocks afte
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by heptathorp 9y ago
We conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
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by heptathorp 9y ago
He spent the bitcoins to a new UTXO that the Feds didn't have access to. Since these "accounts" exist on the block chain, which is replicated on computers all over the world, I guess every account is an offshore account.
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by heptathorp 9y ago
> If it would require no energy to create Bitcoin it would be completely useless. Why would an alternative consensus mechanism that doesn't involve finding a low target hash make it useless?
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by heptathorp 9y ago
> IEX has a speed bump that prevents high-frequency traders from front-running ordinary investors. Anyone care to explain, in precise terms, how a high-frequency trader front-runs ordinary investors on a typical exchange and how putting
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by heptathorp 9y ago
It was a joke but you can send data in a transaction to an account. In fact, somebody did that today. https://etherchain.org/tx/0x16b867d064cab80f0f5d938adda6d03c...
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by heptathorp 9y ago
So why does the AHA still say that saturated fat raises LDL, and cites multiple trials? This goes beyond the media and Ancel Keys. Are these studies not able to control for confounding factors like replacing the sat. fat with sugars and ref
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by heptathorp 10y ago
Mallory has created a file containing random data and planted it on Alice's drive. Then Mallory phones in an anonymous tip to the police...
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by heptathorp 10y ago
In a doggy dog world, people will use expressions despite not knowing the origin or meaning of them.
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by heptathorp 10y ago
> 12 ounces (355 milliliters, or mL) of beer Specifically, at 5% ABV. Big difference between 12oz of light lager and 12oz of barleywine.
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by heptathorp 10y ago
I'm not seeing how this evidence points to overeating --> brain impairment. To me it implies brain impairment --> overeating. > He did that by studying rats that had very specific types of hippocampal damage and seeing what ha

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