jcpham2

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   by jcpham2 5y ago

   I've been saying for a very long time now to anyone who chooses to listen that a contract itself is a human construct - it is both temporal and physical and has location to be relevant and useful. Without all of those properties a cont
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   by jcpham2 5y ago

   Internet brainwashing “ but it uses electricity” never mind the fact proof of work is on it’s fourth generation of hardware and the price absolutely coo relates with the cost to play the game. We’re opining about a system that finally, for
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   by jcpham2 5y ago

   Never paid Amazon a dime for Prime, like ever. I’m sure I’m missing something but in general shy away from any and all subscriptions. I consistently and daily choose no, fuck off and give me the free shipping I’ll wait. If I don’t have enou
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   by jcpham2 5y ago

   I miss AIM :(
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   by jcpham2 5y ago

   I've used IRC for thirty years (edit: typo 20) and been part of immeasurable communities. The whole world runs on ideas I typed on IRC. On the one hand, I'm being facetious but on the other hand I'm telling the truth and I pr
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   by jcpham2 5y ago

   The whole world still runs on IRC and not everyone realizes how fickle IRC users can be.
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   by jcpham2 5y ago

   All the cryptocurrency channels bitcoin monero etc the ones I care about migrated to libera.chat ASAP
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   by jcpham2 5y ago

   > Why is HN so bitter towards it? I find it strange that everyone here simply dismisses it as a worthless concept. What brand-new, experimental technologies with open-source development have ever been perfect from the get-go? I don'
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   by jcpham2 5y ago

   Please continue being butthurt because you don’t understand the value of energy. It’s super cute.
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    whoa whao whao wait just a sec
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    It would be super awesome if the personalities attracted to this would realize they are many many years too late to attract anyone else to their scheme. That's my personal opinion but ya'll seem to like that over here on the &#x27
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    Had to troubleshoot Windows software from a MAJOR shipping provider that popped up a “you must do this thing” on a fully up to date Win10 system today. “The thing” would not work as an unprivileged user account and would only work as a righ
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    > "but as I understand it, the most important thing that they care about, even before aesthetics of an art piece, is provenance " early stage Physical BTC collector here to say yep, chain of custody is super important for coll
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    I don’t remember stirring the currency vs. store of value debate... Is it necessary to agree with a market just to participate in it?
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    The best time to sell beanie babies was when my grandmother was buying & collecting beanie babies. I learn a lot by this sentence and I say it to myself over an over in our new and improved social media fueled world.
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    I really enjoyed what you've said here and I agree that the traditional finance and the wild west crypto finance world _can_ absolutely work in concert with each other. Just liquidated BTC to cover a down payment at my local bank where
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    The market can remain irrational longer than you or I can stay solvent
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    My down payment on the new mortgage I'm taking out at the bank is not wash trading. Whether you believe something has value or not doesn't matter. Velocity and liquidity matter. No Satoshi can't sell his billions in a day but
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    Except the barrier to entry in the crypto to space is nill. Kids are learning order books and depth charts because they _can_ Not because traditional finance gave a fuck about them or even tried to educate them. For better or worse, that&#x
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    Best comment of the day understands what has happened to crypto and the evolution of liquidity At first we called them all scamcoins, shitcoins, then it became altcoins as the market matured Now it's just all giant pools of liquidity t
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    Nah you’re pretty on point. It’s depressing really
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    Is that what this is? I thought it was news for hackers. Apparently everyone wants to make friends on random websites and talk to each other.
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    Not all of us are social
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    by jcpham2 5y ago

    Currently living in my second home financed ~2010 post-crisis 369,000 or so. Looking at 500-600 listing. First home was a 1000 sq ft'er and I've rented it for 11 years. Just closed on a new home 505,000 10k over asking, 4 other of
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    by jcpham2 6y ago

    It’s too far gone now to matter. Initially we cried scam but there’s too much liquidity and too many clones to stop at this point. 25 billion is a drop in the bucket. USDC pays higher interest than <insert bank name>
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    by jcpham2 6y ago

    I did this to namecoin for fun with a bash script for 36 hours in a loop once. This is a true story. Back in the merge mining days they gave them out for free and no one knew what to do with them. I took all the public namecoin addresses I
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    by jcpham2 6y ago

    You are getting downvoted but the internet has a very short memory. Ethereum's DAO fork and the ETC debacle is why your OG's don't support Ethereum.
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    by jcpham2 6y ago

    Blockstream has satellites in orbit for this eventuality. [1] https://blockstream.com/satellite/
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    by jcpham2 6y ago

    Slashdot is where I learned about bitcoin mining in 2011 or so and then I woke up and a) started applying the time value of money to a lot of things and b) stopped having intellectual discussions on the open internet. That is very real trut
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    by jcpham2 6y ago

    But I really really like shell history files if I have to come behind someone!