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by kobasa 6y ago
There are scummy folks in every space, can't generalize the way you did at the end there.
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by kobasa 6y ago
>The reason PKK and/or YPG/YPJ is on some terrorist lists is mainly because Turkish government is against Kurdish rights in general. So you're just gonna omit the fact that they have a decades long history of bombing and k
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by kobasa 6y ago
Once again the HN community completely missing the point on crypto and this time on NFTs. Bunch of unimaginative people who think they're smarter than everyone else but have missed out on the biggest technological investment opportunit
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by kobasa 6y ago
Hashmasks for example gave everyone copyright to their specific piece. And they're quite visually appealing too.
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by kobasa 6y ago
It's not crypto-currencies and it's not crypto currencies. It's simply cryptocurrencies. At least learn to spell the word correctly before giving your absolutely ignorant opinion on it.
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by kobasa 6y ago
I just want to say I'm shocked a community who's supposed to be as technologically adept as HN still "doesn't get it". I have no intention or interest in changing anyone's mind...if you know, you know.
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by kobasa 7y ago
First of all YOU are the one cherry picking dates (conveniently picking the all-time high price which only lasted for a small timeframe). And now, I'm talking about DeFi (decentralized finance) where you can earn interest on top of you
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by kobasa 7y ago
You can send a stablecoin if you have a problem with volatility. There's even a native one called Dai which is outside the traditional banking system.
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by kobasa 7y ago
Thankfully your circle of acquaintances isn't even remotely close to representing the wider world out there and the plethora of legitimate use cases that it presents for all sorts of people in this world. Just last week a friend of min
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by kobasa 7y ago
FIRE doesn't necessarily mean retirement, as you touch on later it can be a valuable position to be in even if you continue working. Independence is the single greatest luxury that money can buy so labeling the FIRE movement as harmful
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by kobasa 7y ago
Yes Tether moves Bitcoin because it's literally people in Asia who want to dump their fiat to buy Bitcoin. There is no grand conspiracy here, people tried to claim Tether were printing money out of thin air to drive up BTC but even the
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by kobasa 7y ago
They aren't minting their own money out of thin air - it's fully backed by existing currencies like the Dollar/Euro/Yen/Pound. They're just making it easy to send this across borders digitally.
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by kobasa 7y ago
Seems you haven't looked up the history of "1st world currencies" and how they don't in fact retain value over time. Even the almighty US dollar has lost 97% of its value over the past century and it's the reserve c
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by kobasa 7y ago
What if it costs twice as less? Think of it as cashing in a small part of some stock/investment to use it to buy something. If you're really that concerned about crypto price changing, you can just top it back up that evening.
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by kobasa 8y ago
Got a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 a few months ago for around $180 and couldn't be happier. Big screen, crazy battery that lasts 2 days on heavy use, fingerprint unlock, fast and quite sleek look. I've even dropped it quite a bit (not cov