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by josephagoss 9y ago
Tethers are total crap, please do an article about them.
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by josephagoss 9y ago
You can cash out Bitcoin and the price is actually very accurate. The money I see in my bank account is real I can assure you of that. Also I know friends that cash out six figures at a time and the price they get is within less than 1% dif
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by josephagoss 9y ago
I agree with everything you said except the double taxation of dividends. Australia has probably the best system in the world for dividends. We use a franking credit to offset the tax paid by the corporation so effectively we have no double
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by josephagoss 9y ago
Edit: ok not 100% sure of the solution, but I think that there should be a way for the government to stop people putting their life savings into Bitcoin.
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by josephagoss 9y ago
This is quite positive and in line with how ASIC (our SEC in Australia) are treating these types of assets. Both are quite opposite to the way China is handling ICO's and crypto currency in general.
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by josephagoss 9y ago
Less than 1% is possible on a reputable exchange. It's entirely possible to put $1,000 in, end up with $995 of bitcoin, sell when that doubles to $1,990 and get out $1,980. Then you have tax :) I am in Australia but I am able to sell f
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by josephagoss 9y ago
I wonder how many of these exchange hacks are inside jobs by the founders as part of a sophisticated long con?
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by josephagoss 9y ago
From what I have read people are using Bitcoin more and more for purchases. https://blog.bitpay.com/bitpay-growth-2017/
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by josephagoss 9y ago
I could easily be wrong here, from the article it sounds like the remaining power reserves are only enough to correctly orientate Voyager to allow for its communications link to be pointing towards Earth. If so and Voyager only has enough p
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by josephagoss 9y ago
Not sure about this incident, but I recall there was an incident earlier this year or late last year where there was major price action and evidence of someone DDOS'ing some exchanges. And if not DDOS, it's entirely possible that
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by josephagoss 9y ago
Is this true, I heard it a while ago: They will be forced to release the same financial information to the public as public companies do once they have too many investors however they do not have to go public in the sense of floating their
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by josephagoss 9y ago
I don't agree that people having some investment in Bitcoin without ever holding Bitcoin is a disadvantage. Once of the things we used to talk about years ago with Bitcoin was that by the time Grandma owns Bitcoin in some way, it would
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by josephagoss 9y ago
Two reasons you should not short Bitcoin. 1) Actual legitimate Bitcoin payments are increasing and real. https://blog.bitpay.com/bitpay-growth-2017/ 2) Even if this whole thing does collapse, never short something like
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by josephagoss 9y ago
Two interesting arguments the article discusses. 1) Will customers be able to sue JPMorgan Chase & Co. due to facilitating institutional trading customers access to these futures, when the CEO said that Bitcoin is a scam/fraud? 2)
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by josephagoss 9y ago
To be fair a lot of us stay away from these Tethers. I think there is a place for a 1:1 backed currency on the blockchain, but I'd rather see Governments actually print for example USD and AUD onto something like an ERC20 Ethereum toke
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by josephagoss 9y ago
I'm a massive bitcoin + crypto currency fan but even I think these assets are probably not the best for your typical doomsday scenarios.
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by josephagoss 9y ago
I completely agree especially regarding older workers willing to branch out on their own terms. I've often found startups (anyone and any organization really) will often present their opportunity as very one sided to an extent. "T
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by josephagoss 9y ago
Every refrigerated container I've seen has its own cooling unit and does not use the trucks power.
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by josephagoss 9y ago
Most people in the scene were warning people away from Bancor due to the large amount of money being raised. Generally large raises will result in a massive fall regardless of the teams performance short term. Also it was never clear how th
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by josephagoss 9y ago
A private blockchain spread across for example, several organizations, may be a good vehicle for sharing a database in such a way that all parties know it can't be falsified. For example, you could use a different consensus algo and en
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by josephagoss 9y ago
For testing smart contracts in a private environment.
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by josephagoss 9y ago
We use them for testing smart contracts in a private and controlled setting.
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by josephagoss 9y ago
I think that anyone in markets such as Bitcoin or Ethereum should be getting out now. It's obvious that we're at the peak and the bubble is soon to pop.
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by josephagoss 9y ago
The quality of the XPS 13 is very poor. The coil whine is so bad that I had to use noise cancelling headphones just to be not distracted by it. For a $2,100 AUD laptop it's a joke. Their quality control is non existent.
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by josephagoss 9y ago
$5 worth of Bitcoin to make a single transaction using Bitcoin! Fees will come down with Bitcoin based LN or another network like Ethereum. Give it time this is still early days. it is clearly inferior to US Dollars in every
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by josephagoss 9y ago
> If you have the impression that serious cryptographers are knee deep in the problem space of trying to make sure cryptocurrencies are actually secure, revise your expectations. I'd say the teams behind Bitcoin core, Ethereum and e
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by josephagoss 9y ago
The ZCash team are one of the most academic teams out there (for cryptocurrencies), which is a very good thing. The more serious cryptographers that get involved in cryptocurrency the better.
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by josephagoss 9y ago
Should STEM be seen as desirable though? It is one of those careers where you either make it before you are 25 or you are replaced. STEM fields are extremely ageist where at 25 and onwards you have to look over your shoulder and watch out f
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by josephagoss 9y ago
What about using tabs that render as spaces in the IDE?
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by josephagoss 9y ago
> Which is in a real currency. It's not about being a real currency or not. It's about what is the legal currency of that particular nation. Notice how they are not pegging the amount to the Australian dollar?

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