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by josu 4y ago
They drank the kool-aid and actually thought that the risk of a depeg was very low, or that they would be able to pull out the money in time? Hanlon's razor.
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by josu 4y ago
Interesting. I had no idea, but it definitely makes sense. Thanks for sharing.
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Bad grammar on my end, just edited the comment to clarify that I was indeed saying that I don't see it as a legitimate business.
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IANAL, but anything between fraud and gross negligence I guess.
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Backstopping those losses would be the right thing to do.
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by josu 4y ago
We considered putting some of our treasury in Anchor. I didn't build a model, just one hour of DD was enough to see the risks. Here is the message I shared with my team on Slack with the findings from a very brief DD: https:/&#x2
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by josu 4y ago
I publicly called out LUNA/UST on Twitter a few times a few months before the collapse [0] [1]. Just stating this so it's clear that I don't have any interest defending them. That being said, calling these platforms "pon
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by josu 4y ago
The cost of operating a US company in a highly regulated environment. Binance US, the closest comparable, "only" does 10% of the volume of Coinbase, or 20% if you take into account that half the Coinbase users are not from the US.
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by josu 4y ago
Heuristics That Almost Always Work (...) The Doctor She is a primary care doctor. Every day, patients come to her and says “My back hurts” or “My stomach feels weird”. She inspects, palpates, percusses and auscultates various body parts, do
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by josu 4y ago
As explained in the article profits are frontloaded, so the company currently looks better than it should.
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by josu 4y ago
> I don't get why it doesn't mention if there are any other (standard) methods of depreciation accounting that are more realistic for this kind of asset Of course there are, and they should actually be using them. But then fund
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by josu 4y ago
Yeah, this image is quite old, around 27k years or so.
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I am big fan of Jim Simon's work as well as Quanta, really interesting that both are connected.
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by josu 5y ago
>After forty years this is what the internet gives us. A few people get rich at the cost of all the rest. Sure, if you want to focus on the negative you can focus on the negative.
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by josu 5y ago
What does "fake" mean in this context? Malicious? Or that the attacker made it look like a BIP so it would get executed? Or something completely unrelated? EDIT: More context here https://twitter.com/peckshield&#x2
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"A former blackhat hacker who goes by the name Gummo online claims to have amassed around $7 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC). (...) The latest comments came as part of a follow-up interview published on Saturday after the initial discus
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by josu 5y ago
You are in the correct universe: https://github.com/tomicooler/UniverseSplitterUnofficial
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by josu 5y ago
I wrote this a few years back. It is more relevant than ever: In cryptoland “decentralized” doesn’t mean what you think it does https://medium.com/@josusanmartin/in-cryptoland-decentralize...
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by josu 5y ago
The numbers match with the chain activity: https://twitter.com/ErgoBTC/status/1483540849434763264
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If this is true why aren't farmers using other less extractive brands? Has JD used anticompetitive practices to hinder competition? Or did JD increase farming productivity in a pareto efficient way, so the farmers are still better off
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by josu 5y ago
> The bigger issue with metamask is that (at least at the time) it allowed any site you visit to silently query your crypto wallet address. Yeah, that's not correct, and I don't think it was ever that way. However, websites can
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by josu 5y ago
I mean, to make your life easier just play Doom on your computer. But I don't think that was the point of this project.
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Some context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lago_Agrio_oil_field
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by josu 5y ago
Wow, I was sure they were encrypted. I just checked and encryption is turned off by default. I just turned it on, thanks for the heads up.
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by josu 5y ago
This is the response from Len's widow, Meredith, the last time a similar article was posted. "It's a very well-researched and respectful article, but to the best of my knowledge, Len was not Satoshi. Worth reading for the his
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by josu 5y ago
The answer is in the press release: Portfolio of Fully Accredited Carbon Offset Credits Starting June 1st
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by josu 5y ago
Not sure about the lake temperature, but the energy company just announced that all their bitcoin mining operations are carbon neutral. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/greenidge-generatio...
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by josu 5y ago
This isn't correct, they are carbon neutral. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/greenidge-generatio...
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It was just added last week https://bitwarden.com/blog/post/admin-password-reset-is-out/
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It is not just gravitational waves, they look at light, with telescopes (visible, infra and ultra), spectrographs, interferometers, radio signals, gamma rays... Then they combine all that info to come up with cohesive theories. LIGO just by

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