keymone

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by keymone 5y ago
> Which is why the meme with LN was "its 18 months away from wherever you are in time". yeah, if memes are the way you keep yourself informed on the topic then i totally understand your point of view. the reality is that LN wor
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by keymone 5y ago
you're overthinking it. and in the meantime LN works great. your analysis is obviously wrong somewhere, but your ideological position prevents you from accepting that fact and re-evaluating your assumptions. again: LN doesn't need
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by keymone 5y ago
but then the act of depriving a being of a certain pattern of synapses that would make it immoral to harm is immoral in itself.
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by keymone 5y ago
that's too grim, i think probability is much larger that we figure out a way to grow human organs inside pigs before we turn actual humans into mindless incubators.
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by keymone 5y ago
would it count as cannibalism to eat such kidney?
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by keymone 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28941210
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by keymone 5y ago
A laptop?
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by keymone 5y ago
These cards idle at 15w while m1 max is yielding like half the performance at that wattage. Sorry, Apple is clearly lightyears ahead. All they need to do is put out a chip with 48 of their gpu cores and they will beat the most expensive top
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by keymone 5y ago
Somebody should tell DHL and USPS that they should shut down their businesses because TSP and CTP are unsolvable. Nah, you’re just wrong because good enough solutions are easy to find, nobody cares about 100% optimal.
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by keymone 5y ago
i doubt it'll even initialize.
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by keymone 5y ago
> * NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs M1 Max - OpenCL https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/compare/3551790?bas ... [29.0%] 30% performance for ~15% of power use in laptop form factor? that's not boo, that
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by keymone 5y ago
No centralized processors, all channels are permissionless and lightning nodes cannot monitor or censor any traffic.
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by keymone 5y ago
It’s one transaction to settle any number of in-channel transactions. That’s why it doesn’t make sense to talk about 7 transactions per second because every one of them can represent a billion value exchanges. It is infinitely more importan
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by keymone 5y ago
https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-capacity
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by keymone 5y ago
time will tell. this fairy tale of tether printing and propping up price is being told and re-told for 6 years and nothing ever happens. you can't hide a deception that large for this long.
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by keymone 5y ago
> you need at least two onchain transactions for every merchant you want to trade with you absolutely do not. you open a channel once with some node and that channel can be used to send payments to all other nodes. it's also simplis
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by keymone 5y ago
gotta explain where you taking those numbers from. how did 1.88m BTC enter the picture? i was talking about $6b in tether. if sold on market instantly BTC price would probably not even drop below $50k judging from books i see on different e
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by keymone 5y ago
> When was the last time you made an everyday purchase like food with BTC? last month. why does it matter? as i said: > adoption can look different from what you expect. i don't expect BTC to be used for small everyday payments o
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by keymone 5y ago
(let's just say that we both assume "you're clueless and have no idea how any of it works" and not repeat ourselves?) tether volume *by definition* will be close to BTC volume because BTC and most other altcoins are tra
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by keymone 5y ago
> And don't give me the L2 lightning network bullshit. Both you and I know that it doesn't work as an actually decentralized payments system, and it plausible deniability and makeup for a centralized workaround of BTC's fu
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by keymone 5y ago
all tether in existence is only worth $57b. BTC market cap is $1.2t. "t" for trillion, you know.
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by keymone 5y ago
it's called DCA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging
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by keymone 5y ago
that's sort of baked in assumption in questions like that: all your assets are in coins, why would you ever sell them if their value only goes up? because living involves consumption of various resources, other than just coins.
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by keymone 5y ago
lots of companies with btc on balance sheet: microstrategy, stripe, tesla, spacex, etc. mutual funds and non-us etfs. us etfs since yesterday. adoption can look different from what you expect.
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by keymone 5y ago
> why sell or ever use it if it continues to go up because you need to eat and live and pay your bills?
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by keymone 5y ago
given how m1 macs perform, thermals significantly better than any laptop with non-apple stuff inside. nvidia/amd just don't design with thermals in mind and that's exactly why you need to attach multiple helicopters to every
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by keymone 5y ago
> It doesn’t matter if renewable energy is built if that new energy is being wasted on cryptocurrency instead of replacing fossil fuel energy for something else. yes it absolutely matters, because expanding the market of energy with rene
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by keymone 5y ago
market is definitely not free at this point because of how much subsidy fossil producers receive from corrupt politicians. doubly funny your worries about externalities, when bitcoin actually meaningfully drives renewable production that is
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by keymone 5y ago
nope, electricity is absolutely fungible. not only in some places consuming excess renewable energy help to stabilize the grid, it also helps producers financially and drives up the demand. bitcoin literally pushes for increased renewable e
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by keymone 5y ago
you should be ok with market participants paying market price for a finite resource sold on a market.

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