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by jmoak3 4y ago
I thought lightning was just code for "Off-Chain transactions processed by someone else". Reading here: https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-for-beginners/what-is-the-... I still get that impression: >The Lig
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Lightning Network is just a centralized company acting as a middleman, occasionally (if ever) committing changes to the blockchain right? If that is the case, then theoretically Visa and Paypal are already lightning networks, just without t
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when servicing gov debt, isn't that money simply distributed to gov debt holders? Looking at https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/national-debt/ and https://datalab.usaspend
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Congratulations!! The tools you used are way more impressive than the ones I used for my first web bucks. >So I made a Web App which will list all of your tenant devices still using legacy protocols and how to move them to modern authent
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Follow up: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8369-21
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I included "According to the order, between January 2015 and September 2018, Coinbase recklessly delivered false, misleading, or inaccurate reports concerning transactions in digital assets" as extra evidence that Coinbase and it&
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I thought it was a good summary, and that people should see it. Have you read the CFTC's fines for Coinbase's wash trading between Litecoin/Bitcoin in 2016 to pump up volume? https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom&#x2
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Yup! https://bitfinexed.medium.com/coinbase-insider-trading-litec...
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by jmoak3 4y ago
This is nothing new for Coinbase employees: https://bitfinexed.medium.com/coinbase-insider-trading-litec... I recommend caution to crypto engineers - the world loves you when you make people rich, and the world might be wil
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by jmoak3 4y ago
This is nothing new for Coinbase employees: https://bitfinexed.medium.com/coinbase-insider-trading-litec...
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>digest anything related to cost increases other than "it's probably oil" I think Oil is a large part for sure, probably larger than the others, but I have no way of diving into how each affects prices. Energy costs have g
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>until China sorts itself out and resumes its steady ascendancy? With what workers? They'll be too busy caring for their parents. That is, if their government and society even survive the decade's transition as their quality of
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>so... where is all of this excess demand coming from? It's not new demand - it's less supply. Less goods coming from overseas due to labor and delivery costs, less oil due to regional conflicts, and less workers due to an immi
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I agree with the first half, but I'm under the impression that streamlining Russian energy imports means that the USA's ability to exert soft power is weakened, which is a smallllll step toward unraveling of the US-led world order
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Someone on this forum recommended Peter Zeihan's The End of the World is Just the Beginning , a book about the unraveling of (American-led) Globalism. This seems to me like the next inch towards that reality.
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This was so much fun to read and went farther than I could have expected
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Rising rates is actually the typical NIMBYs worst nightmare. Around 1/3rd of all Americans are over the age of 55 [0], and of those Americans around 75% of them own property [1]. They vote consistently, and tend to favor short term pol
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>It's a hedge for the collapse of all fiat currencies. I read this as prepping for apocalypse, but maybe we'll just issue new currency backed by something hard. My mistake.
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Take care if you are involved in running an autonomous zero-sum gambling game / pyramid scheme - people will love you when it's rising, but when it collapses they will come for someone to blame.
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A gun and a gallon of water will go farther, I believe
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https://archive.ph/8X1oC
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Hey I’m in KY as well! Driver skill here is something else huh
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Something like 15% of all home sales over the past year were institutional buyers according to a report by the national association of realtors. [0] It was more dramatic for some counties - Austin’s for example saw 41% of homes sold to inst
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Thank you for sharing. I was not in support of her until I saw this video. She calmly handled a crowd of kids yelling what the one adult was telling them to repeat, and now I think she's an excellent leader. I donate to climate action
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0.75 after all https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/federal-reserve-meeting-int...
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It's really sad and really hard out there. My older brother has lost ten thousand dollars in the past year - I've begged him to stop but he won't listen. It's affecting his relationship with his girlfriend and he can&#x2
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>self-custody does not require running a server. I disagree and have made my case elsewhere. Anymore and I think we'd be going in circles. >You can't make this up": used to express great surprise. I think I used it corr
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by jmoak3 4y ago
There are ~16k total reachable bitcoin nodes out there, which means there are plenty of users are trusting 3rd party nodes. https://bitnodes.io/ Having your own keys and using a wallet application that connects to someone e
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Sure thing - once again people were unable to move around their coins due to depending on a tool hosted on someone else's computer. We've seen this many times, and it's a shame because letting another party manage your wallet
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>I'd say you have a more black-and-white vision than me. I definitely do. If a part of bitcoin's chain of usage requires enough trust to ask the government to intervene to protect me, why not just trust the government? >My s

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