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by jebeng 9y ago
A very large amount of Bitcoiners absolutely insisted we were headed towards hyperinflation due to QE back then. In fact that was the very reason a lot of them were interested in Bitcoin in the first place. Interesting how things have worke
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by jebeng 9y ago
Brevik does/has done consulting and currently does some sort of ambassador type role in China for Tencent's version of Path of Exile too.
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by jebeng 9y ago
Federal level enforcement vs municipal perhaps. Not sure it really has anything to do with banks in particular when all kinds of federal law enforcement agencies act in the same militarized manner.
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by jebeng 9y ago
> But if you break the law to disrupt the financial system That's quite the generous description of this $600 million scam operation that was apparently completely full of shit from day one. I mean Uber does some shady things, but i
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by jebeng 9y ago
Oh wow. Now that you mention this I totally remember this project from like 2015 when some people, including Come-From-Beyond, were raising money for some sort of ternary computing hardware project. Totally forgot about it, and never put tw
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by jebeng 9y ago
When they print the Tether to purchase BTC, who's keeping the BTC that's bought? Assuming this is an actual fraud going on and not real USD being held to back each Tether 1:1.
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by jebeng 9y ago
I think you have it backwards. It's the 'liberal ideology' as you put it that is conflating and rebranding the classic economic liberalism. I think it's fair to say Thatcher and Reagan were proponents of free markets and
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by jebeng 9y ago
I think you misunderstood their comment. They weren't asking about network fees at all.
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by jebeng 9y ago
I think you have it backwards here for the most part. What problems do you see infinite blockchains solving? No comment on whether or not a crash is inevitable, who knows where the price is going. That's not really too important to me.
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by jebeng 9y ago
There should be some sort of value threshold or something similar. If your holdings of the hard fork's resulting coin is worth less than some trivial amount, then it shouldn't be necessary. But if for some crazy reason the market
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by jebeng 9y ago
I don't think this is the type of thing they can really elaborate on for obvious reasons. But the genuine holder is probably going to be blocked when they start throwing flags like that, and that's probably just standard everywher
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by jebeng 9y ago
I think there are a few viable, but expensive attack vectors that have been well known within the community for years. But one thing that's always bugged me is how many people out there seem to think that a cryptocurrency could survive
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by jebeng 11y ago
Perhaps, but I don't think too many people are seriously arguing that Bitcoin or any other flavour of it is a serious contender to replace regular currency. Either way, there should still be some utility there if it's possible to
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by jebeng 11y ago
There are tons and tons of cryptocurrencies that have infinite emission schedules. Doing that doesn't appear to give any competitive advantage over other currencies. I don't know if they've decided yet, but the I wouldn'
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by jebeng 11y ago
How is this realizing microtransactions in a decentralized manner? Having to pay a few cents in transaction fees to get a transaction included on the Bitcoin blockchain does not seem like a great platform for true microtransactions(say <
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by jebeng 13y ago
Just want to chime in and say that this doesn't imply that PGP is safe. I mean, it probably is. They would not let us know, either way.
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by jebeng 13y ago
Oh wow. I didn't know this. Interesting. This could become a real competitive advantage for them.
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by jebeng 13y ago
Recursively deleting everything.
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by jebeng 13y ago
It's people have made these jokes online for as long as I can remember. It's sad that it's even remotely possible now that this might become a reality. And you wouldn't even know it.
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by jebeng 13y ago
I've found Al-Jazeera to be the best news network out there. It seems to be only one that's not ridiculously biased and ratings driven.
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by jebeng 13y ago
There is such a wide range of porn now through. A lot of it is quite antisocial. Having a child look at Playboy or those low budget late night tv softcore movies is one thing, or even something more graphic. It's not really about the sex or
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by jebeng 13y ago
"Nudity and sex are normal" That may be true, but internet pornography in general is definitely not normal. I don't support any censorship. But if you were a parent, you might want to think twice about giving your 12 year old free reign on
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by jebeng 13y ago
You would probably find the best bang for your buck in Michigan. Lots of quality, just little work.
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by jebeng 13y ago
There is child pornography in the block chain already unfortunately.
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by jebeng 13y ago
Many millions of dollars worth. Huge number if you include gambling related commerce. Even without gambling it is almost certainly an 8 figure amount. edit: monthly
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by jebeng 13y ago
Yes, quite the success story. Only possible because of the ineptitude of other market participants utterly failing in deploying ASICs.
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by jebeng 13y ago
I remember seeing this before. The quality of the courses were often quite poor. And many instructors would start a course and not finish it, leaving the people following the course hanging.
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by jebeng 13y ago
Totally different product really...
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by jebeng 13y ago
Well, yeah. But you should have seen the numbers they were promising us in 1999...
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by jebeng 13y ago
Gotta hand it to him. That's commitment!

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