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by mw888 5y ago
That’s absolute nonsense. Scammers and grifters making vaporware projects have no significant influence on the projects who spend their budget on development rather than marketing. What you just said is “all these novice basketball players
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by mw888 5y ago
It’s a fair point, they to bring it back to basics a Bitcoin maximalist still has a point: do you want the money in your centralized, easy to use bank under control of a private bank down the line, or in control of a predictable and perman
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by mw888 5y ago
Freeze is a complete overstatement. If you want to hate NFTs then the minor technical hurdles which smaller platforms already alleviate will not your most sustainable route.
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by mw888 5y ago
Articles behind a paywall are not good posts, it is essentially just the posting of a headline on a particularly divisive topic on this board.
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by mw888 5y ago
“Peer tube is supported by the non-profit...” You’re correct, this is different from true web3, which would be fundamentally self sustaining.
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by mw888 5y ago
Or at least seek out different perspectives. HN is very rationalist/materialistic, and it won’t have the most useful wisdom for everything under the sun.
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by mw888 5y ago
Weird to use Github for a simple list of hyperlinks. Anyways, this debate is extremely political as this is essentially a Bitcoin Cash viewpoint, and lightning makes BCH obsolete if it works, so from any dogmatic holder of BCH the motivated
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by mw888 6y ago
Well maybe we should ban gold mining instead of bitcoin mining. It uses more energy and anyone who can understand the source code understands that Bitcoin does gold’s job, only 10x better.
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by mw888 6y ago
It’s easy to take this stance and call others crazy, but what would it take for you to believe your current opinion is wrong about Bitcoin, apart from it changing to something which is in spirit and function not equivalent? If the answer is
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by mw888 6y ago
Ah yes. Because wealth transfers to the rich via money printing and bailouts isn’t something people should try and avoid.
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by mw888 6y ago
This is typical anti-bitcoin rhetoric, it’s nothing new and not completely unfounded, but the author lacks any awareness of the true value of crypto currencies, makes no mention of proof of stake, and assumes that speculation somehow justif
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by mw888 6y ago
I find completing challenges helpful, but I don’t find grinding them all that productive. Personally, my biggest steps forward came from working hard on a small number of problems. Doing code challenges is kind of like taking every class at