magicjosh

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by magicjosh 5y ago
Smart people taking time and effort to make fun of something is the ultimate compliment! This is the kind of satire that pushes me to go dig deeper into cryptocurrencies and figure out what's world changing and what's chaff. Been
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Trezor ditches controversial KYC features(blog.trezor.io)
2 points by magicjosh 5y ago|0 comments
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Wow lots to unpack there. For those reading, the title says "Trezor Ditches a Controversial KYC Feature, Plans Features to 'Cut Off Regulatory Overreach'" Apparently Trezor added a KYC system called AOPP. Then backlash.
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Can you explain what you mean by "high exchange liquidity"? My understanding is it's a policy issue not tech. Automated exchanges like Uniswap have Monero. edit: Uniswap has Wrapped Monero, not actual Monero.
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by magicjosh 5y ago
I had not heard of Hatreon so went looking. According to a few sites, Visa shut them down. After that Hatreon didn't (yet) get another payment processor setup. Their homepage [1] says: "This site's services were suspended by
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by magicjosh 5y ago
I never thought of it that way. I wonder what the article's author thinks about Ethereum's privacy.
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Neat can you talk more about what makes it fully private? How does it work?
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Agreed, a simple disclosure "I own Monero" is needed. The lack of this* hurt the credibility. On the about page the author says they run two Monero nodes. That said, the article is pretty much a list of links so not as much credib
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by magicjosh 5y ago
My understanding is a lot of interesting stuff gets blocked at the payment processor level. So far-right dildos, drug parphanelia etc may have issues that cryptocurrencies solve. If you've never tried to break the rules it's easy
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Got an article on how Lightning fixes this? This article is alarming to me as a normie user. I'm curious about going off the big exchanges and using my coins. What if I receive crypto through OpenSea that Coinbase deems soiled? Althoug
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Anyone have commentary on how cryptocurrencies will step in to this space? Platforms like GoFundMe provide such a thin veneer of value. It's easy for them to overstep their bounds to the point where it's not worth it. If I were a
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by magicjosh 5y ago
How about startup advisors? Or others who have received slivers of equity?
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by magicjosh 5y ago
The article mentions an account frozen after a deposit from a "far-right donor". I wonder how cryptocurrencies will fill the void left by platforms like GoFundMe. GoFundMe apparently just locked a $10M campaign as it violated thei
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by magicjosh 5y ago
It really does seem like the main purpose Bitcoin is succeeding at is sort of a digital gold. It's not good as cash, privacy, or anything else. Lightning seems like a joke compared to the types of efforts happening on Ethereum. Appreci
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Similarly, "Be your own bank" gets construed with "run your own checking account". Banking is much more than a checking account. Banking is interest, loans, credit, investments, and other systems that are far more comple
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Nice! Sounds like the course and book aren't delivering what you want. Agree with your points about the summaries and mining doge. Bizarre. I found your reflections in these posts much more engaging than the main post for this thread.
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by magicjosh 5y ago
This article seems like it could have been written in 2009 at the launch of Bitcoin. It has no real world examples or data. There are so many disaster stories. Is there a reason you chose to write such a high level article now? One of the t
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by magicjosh 5y ago
What do you think about Uniswap and other automated decentralized exchanges? These automated exchanges seem to be growing rapidly. At one point last year Uniswap had 77% of Coinbase's trading volume: https://tokenist.com&#x2
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Is anyone working on a VR-based library simulator? Sounds so cool to browse the Project Gutenberg library in VR. You could slip in fun additions like this as easter eggs.
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by magicjosh 5y ago
[2019] And could have been written anytime since Bitcoin was invented in 2009. I want to see an article with more depth. Get specific on the fees. Get specific with examples of people and their experiences. For use within countries with inf
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Wow what are your favorite apps? And a bit more leading question, what apps have you used in the last week?
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Wow what's better? As an Oculus owner I dismissed the 2 as just aesthetic. Can it run Alyx natively? On the Oculus 1 it requires a PC and cable.
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Too bad Bungie and Activision are off the table! I like these Zuck spitball ideas tho. Is the idea really that the metaverse is their big next market? I like VR but who the heck believes FB will lead it?
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by magicjosh 5y ago
To be fair to the other commenters, they're also talking about the nature of the article, but more about what these financials mean for the tracking products, Facebook, and the "tracking industry" broadly.
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by magicjosh 5y ago
This is a tech community, not a "making bank" community. You may be looking for a subreddit on investing for the reactions you're expecting.
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Ah ok! So then the other replies are valid then. Agree with others, to me this is useless. Browser handles it already if I wanted it, and I never use that anyway.
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Just to clarify this comment is sarcastic right? It gets confusing in text. (genuinely asking)
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by magicjosh 5y ago
tldr; Automatically switching user privacy settings from "off" back to "on" is unacceptable. Tracking company Google does it anyway, says you're misunderstanding.
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Search for Drive is mind bogglingly bad. How...I can't understand it. Is it really because Google can't track me from it so they just don't care?
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Rando: "So what's your company do?" Google employee: "I work at a tracking business"

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