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by josu 5y ago
Don't forget about Richard Branson.
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by josu 5y ago
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupola_(ISS_module)
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by josu 5y ago
https://archive.is/TwwDA
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by josu 5y ago
Before reading the article, keep in mind that Elliptic makes money by scaring governments: either selling their software to them directly, or through regulation that is passed forcing companies to hire them.
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by josu 5y ago
There are a lot of ways, these are just a few: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080813/how-p...
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The regulation
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by josu 5y ago
It's just as bad in Madrid where the public transportation is actually OK, and not everybody owns a car.
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It's also going to be pretty bad when an employee-driver ends her shift 1 hour away from home and she has to drive back without the ability to make any extra money.
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by josu 5y ago
The volume has been huge, at some point it was the most traded perp on FTX. I don't think wash trading is that prevalent (except for maybe in some minor books on Binance).
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by josu 5y ago
Someone must be selling them at 30 cents, for other people to buy it. So some people are definitely making money.
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by josu 6y ago
The second largest donor to the Biden campaign was SBF, the CEO of FTX, another crypto exchange. The crypto ecosystem is spending a lot of money on lobbying. https://www.coindesk.com/cryptocurrency-ceo-donated-second-l...
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by josu 6y ago
A few arguments to justify the valuation: - Government intervention tends to benefit incumbents. - Coinbase employs a lot of lawyers [1]. - Coinbase invests a lot in lobbying [2]. - While fees are lowering for international exchanges, those
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by josu 6y ago
This analogy would have also worked for a quantum computer proposal at the beginning of the 20th century.
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by josu 6y ago
Thanks for your reply.
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by josu 6y ago
Your first sentence seems to imply that losing the gold peg had no impact on the real economy, yet, your edit points to the contrary. Although establishing a clear causality isn't easy, intuitively it seems that leaving the gold standa
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by josu 6y ago
The founder's response to the article: Why users shouldn’t worry about ads on Telegram I read an article that cautioned users from switching to Telegram from other apps, because "Telegram is going to introduce ads". This is m
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>Despite the narrative, Bitcoin isn’t really competing with traditional banking at all. It's additive. It has become another asset for banks to sell to people, collecting relatively high exchange fees in both directions on the trade
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by josu 6y ago
>But I'm telling you that no sane Joe will touch that shit without a serious cryptographic specialist by their side. One would think so, but people in the space are calling each other "degens", one of the best Ethereum dev
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> really hard to reach places in the developing world Like North Hollywood, CA. https://abc7.com/att-internet-fiber-man-takes-out-wall-stree...
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>and that is better since it is easy to have an IPFS node running locally since it is quite efficient. No, it isn't.
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by josu 6y ago
The rule in finance is that if you give a timeframe don't give a number, and if you give a number, don't give a timeframe. This way you are never wrong, and you may eventually be right.
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by josu 6y ago
Hey, I re-read your initial message and I agree. My reply makes no sense. These short term movements are definitely influenced by bots, fragmented liquidity and issues trading venues.
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Take it for what it is. Many "long time" crypto traders are feeling this way currently. We could be completely wrong. There are many indicators to support and disprove this hypothesis. Markets are just social constructs, so eviden
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The most interesting thing is that this feels like the begining of a new bull run, rather than the top. The price action is starting to look like 2013 or 2017, but this time the driver seem to be institutionals and large investors.
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450 billion market cap, larger than 99.99% of stocks. Also, it is much more liquid. I have no idea what "driven by bots" means.
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https://bitcointreasuries.org/
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by josu 6y ago
Thank you for the explanation. I'm really out of my depth when it comes to hardware.
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Would this work on a Raspberry Pi? It also has a GPIO3 interface. https://pinout.xyz/pinout/pin5_gpio3
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by josu 6y ago
You borrow the assets that you are depositing in the fund, so there is no price exposure during the lockup period. Not all arbs are executed instantly. But you know all this...
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by josu 6y ago
The fund has 100 ETH. Let's assume the price of ETH is $1. The NAV of the fund is $100. A premium of 100% means that the fund is trading at $200. This means that there is an arbitrage opportunity: https://medium.com/amb

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