keymone

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   by keymone 5y ago

   Proof of stake doesn’t use the energy because it doesn’t solve the problem that bitcoin solves.
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   by keymone 5y ago

   Inferior to what? It’s the first and arguably best technology that brought digital decentralized ownership to humanity. How is that not enough? Personally it seems all the negativity comes from people who don’t get it or those who are salty
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   by keymone 5y ago

   hey, sorry for late reply, i know some ways have stopped working over time, so my userChrome has accumulated a bunch of them: #main-window[tabsintitlebar="true"]:not([extradragspace="true"]) #TabsToolbar > .toolbar-it
4. 334.▲
   by keymone 5y ago

   Tree Style Tab and some custom css to hide top tab panel
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   by keymone 5y ago

   I always criticize Azov or any other organization for doing crap like that (militarizing kids, nazi-ish symbols, etc), but I don’t want to throw the baby away with the bath water. Azov is a volunteer battalion of people that decided to risk
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   by keymone 5y ago

   I will not deny that people with despicable views have joined those volunteer paramilitary groups when Russia invasion started. But it is quite natural and very different from what is implied by saying “Azov is neo nazi”.
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   by keymone 5y ago

   Is there actual evidence he was in Azov? Is there actual evidence Azov is neo-nazi as opposed to having some neo-nazi members? You do realize that nothing motivates neo nazis more than opportunity to kill some foreign invaders?
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   by keymone 5y ago

   I got rid of top tabs panel in favor of tree view, can’t imagine ever switching back.
9. 339.▲
   by keymone 5y ago

   Did you sign in on the website?
10. 340.▲
    by keymone 5y ago

    What videos are free to watch on there?
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    by keymone 5y ago

    This is why we can’t have nice things. How on earth do we make politicians do something that goes against their electoral interests?
12. 342.▲
    by keymone 5y ago

    that is pure gold.
13. 343.▲
    by keymone 5y ago

    Would it be banned if it was about AAPL or gold?
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    by keymone 5y ago

    > A running car consumes gas even when it's idle. Bad extrapolation of analogy, but still - how convenient that you decided to focus on the lower bound. How about the high bound? Can a car go trillions of miles per gallon? Because B
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    by keymone 5y ago

    > Cars monitor energy use through MPG. Datacenters monitor it as well. Why should crypto currencies get a pass? cars spend energy to move. datacenters spend energy to compute things. bitcoin mining doesn't spend energy to process ac
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    by keymone 5y ago

    Imagine still repeating the same “tether is about to collapse” fairy tale in 2021 Personally I don’t care - let it collapse if they did anything shady, but this zerohedge-esque “broken clock” strategy is extremely amusing.
17. 347.▲
    by keymone 5y ago

    Energy used for PoW per transaction is a dumb metric. Satoshi actually made the most efficient decentralized money that can ever exist and prevented more externalities in the world than potentially any human ever will.
18. 348.▲
    by keymone 5y ago

    Why would they publish that fact? You can pretend to be as many independent validators as you like.
19. 349.▲
    by keymone 5y ago

    This is good for Bitcoin.
20. 350.▲
    by keymone 5y ago

    Lightning isn’t going anywhere, or at least payment channels don’t. Taproot, aggregation and adaptors will make all sorts of scripts more efficient.
21. 351.▲
    by keymone 5y ago

    Great argument, as always, from people like you, enjoy your irrelevance :)
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    by keymone 5y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27025315
23. 353.▲
    by keymone 5y ago

    did your sources include all the activity on all of the altcoins?
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    by keymone 5y ago

    i'm not saying there will never be a valid use case for blockchain beyond bitcoin, i'm just skeptical about the hype of recent years where it's applied left and right to everything. so far all the use cases i've heard of
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    by keymone 5y ago

    blockchains are great in environments where parties can't audit and trust each other but need write access to the same database. so far it remains an open question whether blockchains will ever be useful for anything other than settlem
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    by keymone 5y ago

    thanks for detailed response! > Depending on a utxo state in blocks is effectively the SPV security model, -- it's an utter blind trust in miners to set the value honestly if it was hardforked in as part of consensus protocol - mine
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    by keymone 5y ago

    > impossible to mine bitcoin without burning up cpu time which means energy. i'm sure you would agree that amount of energy required to find signatures at 0 difficulty is negligible > And every year it gets harder, by design (to
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    by keymone 5y ago

    I think you're virtue signalling concerns about the environment in a situation where those concerns don't even apply. Bitcoin is an idea that opens a market for financial security expressed in form of energy expenditure. That kind
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    by keymone 5y ago

    If btc required switzerland's worth of energy to mine a block - how on earth did satoshi mine blocks in 2009 all alone by himself? the answer is that bitcoin doesn't require any amount of energy beyond a single computer to churn o
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    by keymone 5y ago

    > compromised security "bootstrap from a utxo set" could you elaborate what's compromised about including a sha256 of utxo set in every block and allowing users to choose how far back they want to bootstrap from? isn'