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kayamon
4y ago
I used to struggle to build muscle the same way, until I switched to a paleo diet.
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kayamon
4y ago
> You realize we can go on github and setup a bitcoin network too, we call it BitcoinYC, our coins have the same properties of bitcoins, why would that have a value? Miners will only mine the blockchain with the longest proof-of-work. Th
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kayamon
4y ago
Indeed, very much the article's point. Dogs kept behind fences always be barking the loudest.
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4y ago
> There is no insurance for cryptocurrency. https://www.lloyds.com/about-lloyds/media-centre/press-relea...
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kayamon
4y ago
How would you prefer people talk to each other?
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kayamon
4y ago
Math takes time and energy. It's like a race to keep ahead. The fair trading rules of Bitcoin remain enforced because no one party can ever gain control of the race.
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kayamon
4y ago
Nothing screams free speech like using money to silence dissenting voices.
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4y ago
You can print more crypto. You can't print more Bitcoin. You could make a competitor to Bitcoin, and thereby print money that way, but it takes energy. It takes energy to make new Bitcoins. And people can't use their energy for tw
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kayamon
4y ago
Bitcoin has continued clearing transactions throughout, just as it always has since its creation. Crypto != Bitcoin.
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4y ago
The rules of Bitcoin are fixed in place, and no one party can adjust them in future. ETH has core developers who can make any changes they wish whenever they wish.
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kayamon
4y ago
They have done it before -- Bitcoin existed first, and has kept clearing transactions every ten minutes since, and will continue to do so once Solana is long dead.
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kayamon
4y ago
Then you're part of the problem. Bitcoin is real, the rest are scams. What part were you struggling with here?
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kayamon
4y ago
They don't wanna hear it. Folks just seem to like lending other people's money out for them.
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kayamon
4y ago
^ rich people create new money every day so that they'll have more money than you
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4y ago
Most banks only keep a fractional reserve of their money and happily loan the rest out to other people.
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4y ago
Algorithms that can control their own energy usage and energy price can leak out into the real world.
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4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinandea_Island If history is any judge it becomes a bickering contest.
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4y ago
Humans like spending other folks money for them without their permission.
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4y ago
It really is the elephant in the room at this point.
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4y ago
If they sent SBF to jail they'd have to send all the other bankers doing it too. Ain't gonna happen.
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4y ago
But immune to fraud. Conservation of energy proves the vote happened without manipulation.
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4y ago
There's currencies now you can trade online that aren't controlled by any one country.
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4y ago
He really is the world's best door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. His advice on how to make money is basically that you should give some to him. Sometimes you just have to stand back and clap.
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4y ago
People like calling others names rather than discuss the actual issues.
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4y ago
If you can explain what's bad about it and how you've improved since, you never have anything to worry about.
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4y ago
Of course they have the right. It's called 'fractional reserve banking' and it's the foundation of our financial system.
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4y ago
The details you consider 'unimportant' are the precise reason cryptocurrency was invented.
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4y ago
People use Bitcoin to trade and send money around the world with each other.
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4y ago
The beans with the weird pyramid and floating eye logo are definitely the best beans.
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kayamon
4y ago
Do you not want a technosocial revolution?
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