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by kerng 6y ago
Crypto.com who issues CRO is the first to use this with Visa. Bitcoin isnt really in the picture here. It will be interesting to learn how this will work between ETH/USDC/CRO. Crypto.com had Visa debit cards where you get CRO &quo
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by kerng 6y ago
This made Amazon look quite childish honestly. I hope that union thing works out so there will be more checks and balances in place going forward. Those bottle peeing stories and all that surveillance is quite horrible... I also heard lower
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by kerng 6y ago
Calling Bitcoin owners leeches seems a bit of a stretch. In my opinion there is little to absolutely no reason to ever change Bitcoin back to cash. Maybe take a loan against or rent it out to others for cash interest, if you really want cas
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by kerng 6y ago
You are talking about centralized exchanges, which is something built on top of Bitcoin - much like the current banking systems. You are not required to use that with Bitcoin. With Bitcoin someone anywhere can have a "bank account&quot
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by kerng 6y ago
Exactly, the decentralized nature makes this possible.
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by kerng 6y ago
It does have value, its the value to secure the Bitcoin network (at the moment worth $1 trillion). No additional tanks, armies and nuclear weapons needed.
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by kerng 6y ago
Saying it has no value is incorrect. It's seemingly the price to pay for securing $1 trillion. Maybe the better way to look at it is, how expensive is it to secure $1 trillion with other means in a decentralized and permission-less fas
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by kerng 6y ago
Although of course not necessary but as a personal advice, I would pick up site reading early on. It teaches you a lot about music and it's a formal way of persisting your musical thoughts. Also, finding a good teacher and taking regul
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by kerng 6y ago
Not just old apps, recently I saw Robinhood/BlockFi/othere use Plaid, and Plaid pops up a dialog to enter your bank account credentials! I'm not kidding. Of course there is a note that you dont have to worry and all is fine.
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by kerng 6y ago
It's not linking to real world items, but to digital assets. But it doesn't really. I learned the other day that NFT standards don't even store a hash of the digital asset. So, ransomware will wipe out a lot of NFTs one day,
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by kerng 6y ago
https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2021/broken-nft-standar...
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by kerng 6y ago
If I understand right the ETH chain will be integrated as a shard. This would mean it would just live on inside the new Ethereum ecosystem until it is ice aged - so one could say it's not a fork but a wrap of some sort. Unfortunately n
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by kerng 6y ago
Isn't this bad for privacy? Encoding app, org and such information in IP address?
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by kerng 6y ago
I think the rover is at least going to film the flight, but agree a camera in it would have been dope.
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by kerng 6y ago
Not really, in information technology megabyte often is calculated via (convenient) binary multiples, as has been for many decades. As often in life there is not a single truth.
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by kerng 6y ago
Discussed this with a few friends also recently, even now during short seller week and future expiration - where billions of Bitcoins are sold to push the price down the impact is about -10-20%. So $30 billion maybe make a maximum of 40-50%
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Crypto Market Could Destabilize If Bitcoin's Creator Sells $30B Stake(yahoo.com)
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by kerng 6y ago
I think I might become an Apple fan. Writing this on Android device to be replaced with the new iPhone mini. Facebook's behavior becomes more and more disgusting with their continued push against privacy and transparency. although I t
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by kerng 6y ago
This sounds like a phishing mail even, at least the way it's written.
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by kerng 6y ago
Binance CEO said this a while ago: “Wherever I sit, is going to be the Binance office. Wherever I need somebody, is going to be the Binance office"
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by kerng 6y ago
This definition of virus is actually referred to as worm. A virus just attaches iself to a host (binary, document,...) to spread, like 30 years ago viruses spread via floppy disk which required a lot of manual doing. A worm is what activley
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by kerng 6y ago
This talk from Grayhat conference last year gave me a lot of insights on how powerful but brittle ML is: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-SV80sIBhqY
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by kerng 6y ago
Good comment. It seems the only ones benefiting are the partners in these companies - who actually try to create that startup narrative and get the compensation in return. If a group within a large company tries to advertise as startup, it&
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by kerng 6y ago
Yes, some call this "Code is Law" - it is blind to race, social status or how much money you have.
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by kerng 6y ago
The energy usage (and its side effects to the environment) seems like a problematic and valid aspect, and it seems that is the price to pay to have truly permissionless, decentralized system (proof of work). But I imagine there is also a lo
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by kerng 6y ago
Bitcoin has been around for a while now and it has been down talked quite a bit on HN whenever it comes up. It now has a larger market cap as Facebook - so the market sees more value in Bitcoin than Facebook. The sentiment on HN seem still
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by kerng 6y ago
Yes, surprised also, given past stories around Defcon. I think it's great to have audit tools like this. It makes people realize how vulnerable their accounts are. Does a similar tool exist for Salesforce and Heroku?
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by kerng 6y ago
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-hit-by-solarwinds-breac... “We have been actively looking for indicators of this actor and can confirm that we detected malicious SolarWinds binaries in our environment, which we is
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by kerng 6y ago
Stuxnet seems to be far more sophisticated. I mean the entire idea of jumping an air gapped network was crazy but it worked. Since Microsoft itself was compromised via SolarWinds angle I'd take the president's statement with a gra
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by kerng 6y ago
I think 30% is too much, but ethically not really comparable to trading my data behind my back in the alley to shady or non shady businesses - outcomes and implications are not understood, not even by Zuckerberg himself (besides making $$$)

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