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humanizersequel
4y ago
For the record, I'm most familiar with Ethereum and am reasoning from there, Solana may be different. >It's like if the bank gave my currency (USD), to a different business owner (who needs it to run their business), who then p
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>I was establishing that Coinbase is also making loans. As far as I understand, you are incorrect. Coinbase is not making loans, at least not in the context of Coinbase Earn. Happy to be corrected here.
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The analogy wasn't great, but I'm struggling to think of an accurate one — investing or giving a loan to a company is obviously different than having a company interact with a protocol on your behalf. Maybe it's more like ema
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4y ago
>temporarily giving someone currency that they eventually give back to you is more or less the definition of a loan... And Coinbase is doing the work of abstracting that process into a single instrument (Coinbase earn)? Because that’s se
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4y ago
No: https://ethereum.org/en/staking/
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4y ago
>Looks like Coinbase currently makes up 10% of Eth staking. Would this give special privileges to Coinbase over other exchanges? No.
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4y ago
>[arbitrary non-BTC token]'s goal would be for speculative trading I doubt this claim with extreme prejudice.
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4y ago
>Does Coinbase stake on the user's behalf? Yes. While blockchains like Ethereum are open protocols and staking is permissionless, it isn't exactly easy if you aren't savvy and/or somewhat well off already. The value a
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4y ago
> I could write multiple mortgages and roll them up into an MBS myself too, isn't the bank just doing the technical work there too The bank is quite literally writing multiple loans and selling a security. I fail to see how providin
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>Based on comments here, because they called it “staking as a service”. You could reply to my comment instead of obliquely referencing it here. >this very clear and explicit definition This is a definition of an exchange (specifically
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>Coinbase taking money from depositors, loaning it out, and giving the depositors interest from the loan, is a security product. What Coinbase product does this? I was under the impression all of "Coinbase earn" was just stakin
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4y ago
>He would say that because he wants jurisdiction You can make the same argument about the SEC.
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4y ago
There is an official release of minecraft optimized for the Pi: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/edition/pi
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4y ago
I haven't seen the option to correct a translation in years.
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4y ago
Not allowed to leave the lion and the cabbage together
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4y ago
There is a link to LiveATC. It isn't clearly labeled, but that isn't required in the TOS and since this site has been up since at least November of 2021, I expect they're fine with it.
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4y ago
>you agree to consult LiveATC.net prior to linking directly to any of the audio streams Why jump to that conclusion? She could have consulted with them while building this.
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>If I don’t buy homeowners insurance and some arsonist burns down my house, I’m out $100k to rebuild. Is it punishing me if the government doesn’t bail me out? The government isn’t punishing me, the arsonist punished me. The distinction
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>And their post is saying that they are owed a full bailout because they participated in the bank run on the day of the bank run, and also begging for a full bailout. Where in this post does it say that?
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4y ago
ETH is probably a bigger domino than Bitcoin right now.
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>They can't set the rules individually for each "problematic" bank. Can't they?
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4y ago
Short term treasuries. They're a liquidity provider for the US government.
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4y ago
>owned in big part by Coinbase How much of Circle is owned by Coinbase?
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I've also been under the (possibly incorrect) impression that the majority of Circle's dealings are with exchanges like Coinbase — parties who are probably willing and able to play some inside baseball in terms of dealing with dur
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4y ago
This is an interesting concept, could you share a paper or some writeup about this?
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>"In chess pieces have identity and thus differentiated functions, in go they don't. At the level of state/war machine there are also functionaries: the president, the general, but also interchangeable parts: soldiers, wor
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>Profound and true ideas can always be put in simple language. Sure, you can reduce the passage above to "Chess is a game of specific, regimented roles, whereas Go is characterized an emergent, contingent understanding of purpose&qu
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>You could easily write the same thing more clearly in no more space. I certainly couldn't, and I have spent a reasonable amount of time studying Nomadology (the text from which this passage is taken). Why don't you give it a
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People love to say this, but this is extremely dense writing riddled with technical language, written for people trained in reading it. You could perhaps eliminate some of the jargon, but in doing so you'd have to substitute a book
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4y ago
I am one of the "contemporary youth populace" and will second his comment.
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