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hrdwdmrbl
8y ago
I also run a small clothing business. We have received about bitcoin 6 sales over 5 years. Only 1 was offline though. Bitcoin is too valuable to spent. Hopefully something like Grin or Dai will make more sense for spending day-to-day.
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8y ago
No, Lightning has been released. It works. There are multiple implementations. It isn't perfect. Version 1.1 should fix a lot of the shortcomings.
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8y ago
Thank you! Though from the readme on that module the dev says "it turns out that you’re better off using the normal Node.js/V8 implementation unless you’re operating on huge JSON. ... the bridging from V8 to C++ is a bit too costl
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8y ago
Would it be possible to make a native module out of this for node?
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8y ago
In the future I think that the idea that the government doesn't know where everyone is at all times will seem hard to imagine. (This is an IS statement not an OUGHT statement)
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8y ago
A few uses: - micropayments: the products that that enables - web-native currency: Makes it easier for apps to integrate money. Games, chat, maybe torrents we're told - easier to transfer money between institutions (maybe easy in the U
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8y ago
I also do not fundamentally understand their plan. According to the article they will short XRP, clone XRP, then somehow get people to switch from the now worthless XRP in to their coin which would somehow not be worthless, then they will g
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8y ago
You might be right but honestly I'm too lazy to verify. We both agree on the fundamentals anyway
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8y ago
Yes! And not only that, but the initial distribution was fair
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8y ago
If only the cryptocurrency market were even rational enough for this to work. You have projects like ETC and the many Bitcoin forks that are total junk clones but still have value. You have projects like Tron which plagiarizes their whitepa
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8y ago
They literally don't see how they constrain supply and how that leads to higher prices.
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8y ago
I think a better word to use would be "optionality". Keep your options open. You want to maximize your options. Do things that increase your options later.
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8y ago
So it sounds like I can use this as mom-as-a-service, yes?