lancemurdock

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by lancemurdock 5y ago
interesting precedent for the future. Whats an 'emergency'? Whats is the point of an FDA review at this point?
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
this would indeed be a serious blow to current price of crypto. Many projects would die and tons of liquidity would leave. Liken to a mass extinction event. But like all gov attempts to ban something, there would still be a cohort who belie
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
very much agree
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
I am both terrified and in awe at the technical prowess it takes to discover these vulnerabilities, let alone exploit them. Meanwhile I sit here fumbling with writing custom hooks
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
the sooner we move to nuclear the quicker we will get to clean energy
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
I seriously wish I could never hear the word the "privilege" again. Its an extremely spiteful mechanism to tear people down.
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
"Hodling" is certainly part of the culture but it wont be as more services get rolled out. Look at the volume on exchanges, people move coins around, stake them, or even loan them out for APY rates. Loans would not become unfeasib
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
Deflationary currency would be a nightmare because some cohort would become very wealthy? I am not sure those two thoughts are connected. Deflation is not a bad thing for the end consumer. Our purchasing power should be going up over time a
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
some of the biggest plagues on society are rooted in central banking policies. If you have ever been upset at the amount of money bankers make, markets they've manipulated which resulted in tiny fines, or went bankrupt and needed bailo
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
car accidents account for 38K deaths a year in the US alone. If we ban cars, we'd be saving 38K lives every year. Why do people continue driving knowing this statistic? The conversations around ransomware and climate are both slippery
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
"hate speech" has become such an overused, loose term that its losing its original meaning
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
im just bummed they went with the modern body style and did not revive the early 2000s Lightning body style that had a more street racer vibe. That car was sweet
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
i'll check back on this coin when its tokenomics have improved. I am not interested in something with 70% of the total supply not yet in circulation.
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
a pollution tax will not work. That just becomes the price of doing business and that cost is factored into other areas of the business model. Even worse, it just gives more capital to inefficient governments
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
While the energy consumption of bitcoin is debatable due to the unknown usage of clean, renewable energy (some reports are at 75%) to to secure the network and prevent bad actors, even for arguments sake, we can agree the energy consumption
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
just because you lack an understanding to rebuttal coherently doesn't render the argument useless.
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
A talking point to the dangers of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency is that it can be hard to trace bad actors using the network to launder money. The comment I replied too was stating "debunks another favourite talking point of the crypto pe
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
clyde looks good but that font is not what I would chosen
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by lancemurdock 5y ago
so which is it then? "BTC is bad cause it can be used by drug dealers to launder money" "BTC is not even secure from government access" Surely someone will point out both can be true but the point is the anti-btc folks s