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mr_woozy
6y ago
and it's not working https://www.bbc.com/news/education-53417284
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>If you live on an island, disconnected from everyone else, then you can do whatever you want. I think you're unaware how isolated and segmented some of the global electrical grids are (even in well populated areas) that create the
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Minus the tax hit they might take when selling back for fiat and being unaware of the tax implications that having advice a dedicated lawyer or accountant would offer.
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https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Help:FAQ#Why_don.27t_we_use_calcu...
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>If we could push for legislation to ban PoW, then projects would take the time to switch to PoS, and everyone will go on like before. Still distributed. Still decentralized. How would this even work, if in the same article you mention C
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Well said. I may refer back to your excellent point when this argument comes up again......and again.........and again.
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Except that it's not true and been debunked continuously the past few months over and over. Most of this electricity is idle peak going to waste already and up to 60% has been via renewables that cannot be distributed globally like in
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> so... we have Proof of Stake, in various forms. And which one of those Proof-of-Stake forms are you already heavily invested in?
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100% sure this anonymous article writer is somehow vested in a proof-of-stake shitcoin.
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here you go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zymINXCAMw0
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This doesn't hold for places like Iceland (where I live) as there will never be transmission of power to either continent due to distance impedance losses.
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also if anyone wants to donate to our rescue services they can be found at https://www.rescue.is/ It's all volunteer based and non-for-profit and helps keeps sites like this eruption safe for all visitors.
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I was there last sunday, you can see from comparing it from the other camera setup from RUV (National state Broadcast). the main fissure is about 50m high 30-40 across currently. There's a timelapse where you can compare during daytim
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There have been scientists at the site at Geldingadalir since the first day of eruption as well as helicopter flyovers.
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Lightning Network Hacksprint Wrap-Up (March 2021)
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Here we go again........
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run a pruned node and it only takes up 3Gb
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and what his account number and pin are!
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It's a misrepresentation, but you're on to something. Crypto is also backed in addition by all the other network participants willing to transact in crypto. which scales log with number of network participants.
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Same here in Iceland where we mine 11% of the btc Network.
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>The problem with a digital currency, of course, is that when you hand someone a sequence of bits, they don't go away from you, so you can hand that same sequence of bits to another person. I mean, you're not wrong, but this i
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I don't see how sidechains isn't doing exactly this.
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because it helps someone elses narrative!
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>the continual barrage of hostile comments in every single HN article looks mostly like groupthink to me. I think its more a sensational narrative that angry geeks don't realize they're being used to advance.
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For other coming here who didn't immediately get the joke either. The kiddies attacking the sender were using curl to steal data, it wasn't an exploit in curl itself.
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because by assuming blind trust (or your ability to discern who is trustworthy to interact with) with mean statistically you will get burned eventually. Better to build systems that assume on untrusted actors as the default start state and
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> so, if Franck Leroy wants to have a chat I'm thoroughly convinced this author is a made up pseudonym. No other articles, no information on what development work they do for what project paired with a generalized emotional call-to-
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>. I think the cryptomining rigs could eventually be claimed by the government to house a large general AI what? via hashing sha256? what are you even talking about,nutter?
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how could you possibly call Hawala trustless if you understand it?
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looked at a map lately?
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