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by leppr 4y ago
Then the software will automatically discard the evidence. I would suggest to stop spamming the HN comment section and read the introductory articles people helpfully linked you to.
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by leppr 4y ago
> In principle, inflationary currencies have a force pushing away from wealth centralization That depends entirely where the new money gets injected. If it gets injected at the top, like with our current fiat currencies, then there&#x2
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by leppr 4y ago
The wealth centralization effect is not an inherent aspect of crypto, it was nothing more than a result of the liquidity injections from central banks. The same argument could be made of all scarce assets that rocketed in price in the past
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by leppr 4y ago
> It doesn’t seem that arbitrary if it’s true that he was directly profiting from money laundering as described. It remains to be seen what they mean by this. Tornado doesn't extract fees, so the profiting couldn't be exactl
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by leppr 4y ago
Given how arbitrary the Tornado enforcement seems, fully private ledger cryptocurrencies will probably be declared criminal too. While this won't deter criminals from using them, it will deter normal people, as publicly offering goods
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by leppr 4y ago
> There is no "democratic process of adoption", because switching currency without a managed, centralised process is likely to be catastrophic. Actually this already happens and has happened in many, many countries and time p
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by leppr 4y ago
COVID money also came with lockdowns, which reduced spending and thus delayed inflation. It also naturally takes time for inflation to travel from assets to commodities to consumer goods. Furthermore there was no justification for raising p
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by leppr 4y ago
> No, this isn't removing some imaginary consensus process on money > "The many" are not using ethereum-based money laundering tools, nor will they. Cryptocurrency in general is already a niche activity of techbros
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by leppr 4y ago
> it's about the integrity of democracy itself. Oh please, this has nothing to do with Democracy. Democracy literally means citizen-power, while this enforcement is removing the power of citizens to come to consensus on which mone
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by leppr 4y ago
In a similar vein, adding a voice for E2E. It's just me, but I won't consider using a tool gathering such personal information if it's not encrypted with keys I control.
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by leppr 4y ago
That's a very accurate statement for what it was like 5 to 10 years ago. But nowadays with resets, saner modern browser APIs, polyfills, build steps, and frameworks, compiled into starter projects, it's much more systematic.
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by leppr 4y ago
I distinctly recall a virologist on public television early in the pandemic saying the hands and surface disinfection rituals were for psychology. He was not recommending masks either because there weren't enough to go around for every
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by leppr 4y ago
How do you handle the loss of privacy caused by using only non-cryptocurrency digital payments? Any mitigation measures one can take, or is it an all-or nothing proposition to have everything you ever buy logged? Can you see what other citi
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by leppr 4y ago
> https://en.eagle.cool/ - I LOVE it. Paid and local only. But Cross-Plattform and Dropbox sync available. Proprietary operating systems only, so not really an alternative no.
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by leppr 5y ago
Try using a more common browser (Chrome, Edge, Safari) and see if that changes anything. When you sign up for a service, access it from Google, not by typing the address directly. I used the same as you do and would often get my accounts bl
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by leppr 5y ago
Instagram, Google and Twitter probably have a different cause. Everyone gets accounts disabled on these services, if one doesn't use them often.
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by leppr 5y ago
> I went looking for solutions and found some interesting options - but most of them required me to give up my bank and brokerage login data. For me this was a non-starter. I was just not comfortable entrusting a company with that sensi
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by leppr 5y ago
I don't see how that's ludicrous. There's a lot of dirty money on both sides. One could easily imagine a scheme where items or accounts loaded with games bought with dirty BTC are sold for now cleaner fiat or crypto.
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by leppr 5y ago
Why ask HN though? I don't know who decides on social media propaganda, but I doubt it comes from any HN participant. Assuming you live in the US, reaching out to your government officials should be more effective.
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by leppr 5y ago
Your view seems based on over-generalization. It's fine to think "most porn is disrespectful", but that shouldn't lead you to conclude all porn should suffer from repressive laws or social norms.
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by leppr 5y ago
To paraphrase the message you're replying to: The inconvenience of credit cards manifests itself after making the payment: when you're filling taxes, or when whatever information derived from your payments is used against you. You
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by leppr 5y ago
What's new is the democratization of falsified images, not their existence. Nowadays, local police investigating a small crime would never doubt the veracity of photo or video evidence. If they are provided video evidence of someone co
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by leppr 5y ago
The number of game developers and studios is more or less fixed for a certain period of time. Since returns on games are so low, game creators have to save money on development. The easiest way to save money on development is to make a clon
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by leppr 5y ago
Social contracts don't encompass country-level laws (at least since passports appeared and freedom of movement vanished). A contract implies you have a choice: to abide by the rules and participate, or leave. Citizens of most countries
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by leppr 5y ago
Cryptocurrencies are supported by more democratic means than fiat currencies. Anyone has freedom to use the cryptocurrency or not, which affects its value. The supporters of some cryptocurrencies often have quasi-religious faith in it. Supp
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by leppr 5y ago
If you're trying to craft attacks you should execute them on a private network and not the public testnets, as people monitor the testnets and will copy your attacks if they see you exploiting the corresponding testnet contract of a ma
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by leppr 5y ago
This piece cites the exact same article you linked in your previous reply as the source used to come up with their number. Same issue.
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by leppr 5y ago
And some NFT collections have billion dollar marketcaps as well.
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by leppr 5y ago
The "lost bitcoins" figure is misleading, since most of these happened during the early days of Bitcoin when their value was low and mining outputs high. Little care was taken about backing up wallets, many have simply been abando
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by leppr 5y ago
2 trillions

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