kayamon

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by kayamon 5y ago
You talk about schoolyard arguments but you seem to be the only one here trying to start them.
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by kayamon 5y ago
Transactions have already been reversed on Bitcoin via successful hard-forks: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823.0
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by kayamon 5y ago
> With BTC, there’s no underlying asset. lolwut BTC defines computation/energy as a tradable asset -- that's literally the whole point of it.
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Cryptocurrency Interview: Alex Gladstein (With Casey Muratori) [video](youtube.com)
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by kayamon 5y ago
Bitcoin is the only legit blockchain. You don't have to take my word for it; he proved it in the paper. The blockchain with the longest proof-of-work is always the real one, given multiple competing blockchains. All other cryptos are a
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by kayamon 5y ago
Any additional cryptocurrency is already inflation.
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by kayamon 5y ago
The dollar price of many cryptos is being manipulated by things behind the scenes, e.g. exchanges pretending they've bought Bitcoin when they haven't, or stablecoins messing with the market.
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by kayamon 5y ago
> Any Bitcoin transaction will only ever be as fast as the underlying blockchain, which currently processes around seven transactions per second (last time I checked). Then check again. Go google the Lightning Network. This is outdated F
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by kayamon 5y ago
Bear in mind many private exchanges aren't ever really exchanging crypto until you cash out -- the numbers you see can be just trades on an internal stockmarket, not necessarily backed by any external crypto asset until realized.
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by kayamon 5y ago
There's a lot of snippets posted over the years on various forums. Nothing much, a few pages to get a hint of the syntax and the basics. Once you've picked apart the loader/runtime[1] the dynamic nature of the Lisp runtime sy
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by kayamon 5y ago
It was written in a Lisp/C mashup and compiled to MIPS assembly.
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by kayamon 5y ago
Python is not easy to embed. It's very unsecure and is difficult, if not nigh-on impossible, to effectively sandbox. (see RestrictedPython)
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by kayamon 5y ago
> I acknowledge no one cares about my hardships Me taking the time to type this disproves that. > Healthy, functional people are just looking for ways to get further ahead in life. All other people are doing the same thing. > Happy
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by kayamon 5y ago
> Don’t destroy that by getting into a semantic debate. And you've just done... what exactly?
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by kayamon 5y ago
https://murchandamus.medium.com/i-have-just-read-jonald-fyoo...
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by kayamon 5y ago
There's only one real blockchain; the longest one. That's the whole point of the blockchain. It's a global solution. If someone's trying to sell you on parallel blockchains they're trying to scam you.
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by kayamon 5y ago
I think this is why we're already starting to see a shift towards platforms like Etsy rather than Amazon -- people are realizing that goods become worthless when you can just obtain anything. Personalization is going to be big in the n
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by kayamon 5y ago
Miners are the only people who decide the rules of Bitcoin. They vote with their mining power. (this is in the paper)
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by kayamon 5y ago
But Bitcoin has inflation though. The supply doesn't become limited until the inflation curve runs out in years to come. The early adopters will find the same financial pressures as with fiat currency.
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by kayamon 5y ago
"Gee no carry flag how will we cope?"
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by kayamon 5y ago
It already has this.
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by kayamon 5y ago
> However, in C++98, how else would you handle when you have an arbitrary number of things to print in a type-safe way? e.g. If I were the one designing the language, I'd have simply fixed printf to be type-safe. (e.g. via adding ma
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by kayamon 5y ago
> Agriculture is invented and pretty advanced and yet there are a lot of humans suffering from hunger. Perhaps we could invent a new thing to solve that too? Improvements to crop technology, breeding, farming methods continue to happen e
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by kayamon 5y ago
> The network can’t compete on scale, compared to VISA, MasterCard or AMEX. Yes it can. Bitcoin Lightning solves this. They're using it in El Salvador right now.
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by kayamon 5y ago
Agreed. There's no reason why one Bitcoin should be worth X, right? It's just monopoly money, right? Right...? So homework question: what does define the value of a Bitcoin?
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by kayamon 5y ago
> independent governing systems, tamper-free databases, and all the good stuff that the enthusiasts used to sell the dream to everybody else. That stuff is all still there though.
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by kayamon 5y ago
But this is why Bitcoin works though. It's why it's important. Because it solves a problem most people have no idea even exists. That's why they get angry when people talk about it, because it seems like people are lying to t
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by kayamon 5y ago
Indeed, which is why the inefficiency in Bitcoin is deliberate. People seem to overlook that. If you goal is simply to send numbers around the world, of course there are better methods.
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by kayamon 5y ago
But aren't all problems just due to a lack of technology? Not enough food? Invent agriculture. Or invent the spear and the sandal so you can hunt further afield. Technology is not a field. Technology is what humans apply to improve the
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by kayamon 5y ago
I've been following Alex Gladstein[1] on Twitter and there's been lots of interesting podcasts and other discussions worth checking out. [1] https://twitter.com/gladstein

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