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by leppr 5y ago
What country/area? Interesting anecdote.
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by leppr 5y ago
Your examples are about spending oversized amounts of resources to send messages to would-be imitators. How are you going to dissuade new hackers popping up when they have total freedom in where to base their operations and hiding their tra
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by leppr 5y ago
What I want to see a source for is your claim that there is hard evidence for the opposite of " net crime being reduced ", not random anecdotes and opinion pieces. I see nothing there indicating a quantitative increase in crime vi
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by leppr 5y ago
Care to provide any sources to that "ample hard evidence"?
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by leppr 5y ago
I'll reference a previous related comment of mine to avoid rewriting everything here [1]. In short, the root cause behind everything you're talking about is low interest rates and money supply inflation. Rich people have been on a
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by leppr 5y ago
It's hard to parse the graph's flow. Maybe putting a gutter between the cells, and/or using curved lines for the connections would help.
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by leppr 5y ago
> It's such a shame that so much of the crypto world relies on people being uninformed. You can extend that take to almost all of DeFi yield farming as well. APYs almost always rely either on a greater fool buying the useless gove
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by leppr 5y ago
In typical HN fashion I'll criticize the naming: This seems to be a trading bot on centralized exchanges, so as it stands it doesn't interact with cryptocurrency and it could trade anything (not necessarily cryptocurrency). Hence
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by leppr 5y ago
The flags seem to be mostly attached to accounts. I've found accounts being systematically shadow-muted whatever the content of their post (and they were "neutral" accounts, i.e. hadn't posted anything one could consider
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by leppr 5y ago
Storing data has low cost versus continuous computing. This is what makes Chia mining have less external impact. Unused storage space can be used to make a little bit of money. If the "useful" data you're talking about has no
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by leppr 5y ago
I have been seeing Nano shills pop up on HN recently. This is not the place. Please restrict your operations to Reddit, 4chan and Facebook. Thank you.
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by leppr 5y ago
Oh, what a surprise, another unexpected event pumping oil prices.
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by leppr 5y ago
The #1 argument against Bitcoin and Proof-of-work consensus in general is that it's harmful for the environment. Chia and other Proof-of-Space consensus coins promise environmentally-friendly consensus (because running the algorithm re
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by leppr 5y ago
One aspect? This is the full picture. We wouldn't be talking about how polluting Bitcoin is if not for the all-assets bubble, as miners wouldn't be incentivized to spend much energy mining it. Nobody talks about ransomware or the
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by leppr 5y ago
If you're really primarily worried about the sea of scams, I think the focus on crypto is misdirected. My opinion is this tsunami of money flowing into ponzis is way bigger than crypto, and looking at crypto in isolation is missing the
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by leppr 5y ago
Chainlink's model has hardly proven itself, even if the marketcap could lead one to guess otherwise. Node participation is permissioned and the economical model has not even started to be tested: queries are free and nodes are paid thr
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by leppr 5y ago
I was agreeing with them until the very last bit where they conclude that this means blockchains achieve nothing. Then I read their nickname and remembered they troll almost every crypto/blockchain-themed thread with vaguely-related sh
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by leppr 6y ago
Ok but then what do you use? Lynx? Chrome/Chromium/Brave have 10 times the amount of dark patterns. It's sad but the complexity and cruft of browser APIs have created an effective browser duopoly. There are no alternatives fo
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by leppr 6y ago
Have citizens participate in writing legislation instead of deferring to a small entrenched elite? I believe our elders called it Democracy. Nowadays they call it decentralization.
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by leppr 6y ago
> But my research indicates that Demovracy does truly have a shoddy track record at spurring development. First step is to stop referring to "democratic republics" as "Democracies" with a capital D. That's a po
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by leppr 6y ago
> The statement that P2P networks are superior to centrally managed ones stands far from reality. There is a certain class of problems where this is true. Yes, indeed. That's enough to be useful, they don't need to be better
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by leppr 6y ago
Community-governed vs. advertiser-dictated networks. Free markets. It's a wide topic, I'm surprised you can't find a single usecase you would use or think makes sense. If it can help you imagine some, take the decentralized p
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by leppr 6y ago
Cryptocurrency/web3 is at its core just technology. Fundamentally, the technology is still not that far advanced from the early Bitcoin days, but the little that is currently implemented successfully allows for ponzis and gambling. Cry
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by leppr 6y ago
While I have little doubt they're indeed broken in the way you describe, as long as the results are consistent they could still be useful to hire for diversity. You would care more about your team members having a wide variety of resul
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by leppr 6y ago
Yes, the point here is not about the total valuation of each asset, which affects every holder equally, but about how individuals can influence, or not, the relative distribution of said asset. If I'm, say, from a persecuted cultural g
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by leppr 6y ago
Gold or other physical scarce assets come pretty close to allowing you to escape this.
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by leppr 6y ago
MobileCoin transactions and balances are private and untraceable. This problem doesn't exist here.
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by leppr 6y ago
How does the ability to transfer "points" from one number to another, remove from the messaging features? Is it really that hard to imagine unobtrusive UI that makes this as optional as sending GIFs, stickers or location data? Or
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by leppr 6y ago
> I believe that everyone has a fundamental right to secure, private communication. Some people may hold the same belief for the right to transfer funds. I don't agree and I suspect many others feel the same. What are the argument
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by leppr 6y ago
A hard fork in a decentralized cryptocurrency is democratic, users chose which of the 2 new chains assets' they want to keep. No binary winner is decided, the market currently values ETH as 122 times more valuable than ETC, but ETC is

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