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by jcpham2 4y ago
I have dogecoin wallets worth thousands from 2014 and such when we were joke mining before it had value - it isn’t that hard to fathom if you’ve operated in this space for a decade.
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Keep it coming. If the entity is solvent this isn’t a problem. Nothing like a good ‘ol stress test
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by jcpham2 4y ago
I was trying to explain to my son the other day when he was complaining about the Xbox without the drive slot. I asked him how big of a download Fortnite or call of duty were - I think he said 60 gigs and then I told him blu ray tops out at
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Bought one for my kid LAST CHRISTMAS only to be delayed until this year but I'm finally giving it to him for Christmas this year. I've ben sitting on it for months and it is killing me. Really nice unit.
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by jcpham2 4y ago
I still haven’t used Twitter, I fear the platform will be gone by the time I’ve decided to give it a go
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Haha I love that’s great, I might borrow that explanation
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Let’s talk about the control these big tech companies have over our lives, because last week I was locked out of Amazon and closed my account with them. I understand my issue is entirely different from Op’s from the wealth perspective but t
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by jcpham2 4y ago
What if I can’t decide which is better so I further diversify into both?
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by jcpham2 4y ago
I’ve been burned by every free remote access software ever released lol
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Free today, pay tomorrow
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by jcpham2 4y ago
FTX advertised direct to consumers through Fortune cookies via openfortune. I know because I saved one on my desk and I'm looking at it. The crypto fortune cookies were the biggest red flag I've ever seen in my life.
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Prior to that I rolled my own unlimited data AT&T 4G LTE router while I tried to keep getting my local cable ISP to come to my house or simply acknowledge that they provided service to my address, according to the FCC. I did the pre-pai
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by jcpham2 4y ago
I successfully used this map to report my local ISP informally to the FCC to have them run service to my home - which they said they could not locate on this map. Let that sink in.
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by jcpham2 4y ago
I don’t understand if I should click or press [-] What does it do?
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by jcpham2 4y ago
For whatever it's worth I think you've done a great job answering the question in it's entirety. The moment lending/repayment and interest rates enter the equation with crypto currencies (whose value _completely_ floats)
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I remember back on IRC when folks were buying and selling mtgox debt accounts. I never even logged in or filed a claim or took a screenshot or anything- just wrote it off
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by jcpham2 4y ago
I don’t (consider) Bitcoin as a high risk investment at all at this point because of the 4 year halving super cycle, until 2030 ish Hash rate is still climbing, the price will follow. Everything else is noise.
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by jcpham2 4y ago
FWIW I have difficulty distinguishing the difference between a Ponzi scheme and "The Time Value of Money" concept itself. Every place I see that offers interest on crypto deposits, I fear they have no business plan to generate the
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Kraken I trust but I've never used. For perspective, I've traded roughly a million dollars worth of BTC specifically. Most of that was as the knife was falling after the 2017/2018 ATH. DCA-ing since then, selloff at the top i
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by jcpham2 4y ago
^ This I had sparse information for the first OG BTC lending website and that information would’ve been super useful to all sorts of three letter authorities in retrospect. It was only $7500 at the time but that has slightly ballooned over
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Unfortunately I can echo the crypto space sentiment for as long as such an expression can exist I’ve never touched Bitfinex/FTX/Binance or any exchange that allows options or leverage. I am a US citizen. Bitstamp Gemini or Coinbas
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Yeah good ‘ol Finex
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by jcpham2 4y ago
You are correct, my bad
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Pretty sure Binance was the first exchange to socialize the losses of a hack into an aidropped token to all users - which then allowed users of the exchange to gamble on the future on whether or not they’d be made whole. Feels like the orig
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Same here until I realized the tax disadvantages of no mortgage. As soon as rates bottomed woohoo let’s get another mortgage, I’ll keep my cash this time.
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Depends on how many GPUs are in the PC. Circa 2011 I had quad-Radeon 6970 machines pulling ~1000w each from 1200 watt power supplies, measured with a kill-a-watt. Those machines ran 24/7 for at least 36 months before I had to start ser
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Depends on how many GPUs are in the PC. Circa 2011 I had quad-Radeon 6970 machines pulling ~1000w each from 1200 watt power supplies, measured with a kill-a-watt. Those machines ran 24/7 for at least 36 months before I had to start ser
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Now image having these same discussions circa 2000 ish on IRC channels devoted to re encoding pirated VCD/SVCD to Microsoft’s accidentally released DiVX 3.11 alpha codec on multi pass encodings to hit 700mb exact The strangeness of PA
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by jcpham2 4y ago
Is this stealing or double spending? The original concept was that double-spends were impossibru because proof of work. Then someone pointed out hilariously the origins of BNB "token" in the first place - because ETH 2.0 PoW editi
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ding ding ding

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