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nicky0
9y ago
Why only consider illegal transactions? Are you saying the number of legal transactions is negligible?
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nicky0
9y ago
Law enforcement?
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nicky0
9y ago
Perhaps they could buy a sharp chisel from Amazon.
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nicky0
9y ago
So did you personally audit the code of you phone or do you just trust that it is not spying on you?
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nicky0
9y ago
Ah so there will now only be a reduced chance that your incriminating speech will be uploaded. That's OK then.
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nicky0
9y ago
The Spotify classical catalogue is pretty deep. Also it is very much international - it being a Swedish company.
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nicky0
9y ago
Faith in the Lightning Network, the Saviour which is to come.
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nicky0
9y ago
That's not really the answer. The answer is that there are more transactions being broadcast than there is space in the blocks to accommodate them. Thus creating fee pressure.
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nicky0
9y ago
Lightning network (a 2nd layer on top of bitcoin) aims to solve this.
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nicky0
9y ago
Bitcoin transaction are never "returned" - they are simply either confirmed or not yet confirmed.
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nicky0
9y ago
Yes
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nicky0
9y ago
Store at least the value you put in. Falling in value would be bad. But rising in value is a bonus.
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nicky0
9y ago
The fee is chosen by the person making by the transaction.
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nicky0
9y ago
Do you have a smartphone in the house? You know, that thing with a microphone and an always-on data connection.
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nicky0
9y ago
As far as I can tell, the only people the iPad is suitable for as a full time computing device are bloggers who write about iPads
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nicky0
9y ago
I get your point but it's rather tiresome to repeat this Emoji jab since clearly the people drawing new emoji will be artists who would hardly be fixing code bugs instead.
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nicky0
9y ago
But face data is not shared with apps for security/unlock purposes. Access to the live face data stream is provided for features like silly Snapchat filters ("turn your face into a lion" type crap) which the user may opt in t
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nicky0
9y ago
Speak for yourself.
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nicky0
9y ago
What happens in a year?
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nicky0
9y ago
So you would recommend staying no more than one annual release behind?
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nicky0
9y ago
I agree but it is ironic, because one of the great strengths of Bitcoin is that, with just a little education and following the right basic procedures, anyone can hold it directly with very little risk. No need the need for any middlemen, c
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nicky0
9y ago
Just as a point of accuracy, the Robber only lets you steal one card. But anyone with 8 or more cards has to discard half rounded down.
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nicky0
9y ago
That is correct, currently only about one third of all humans over 13 are active users of Facebook.
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nicky0
9y ago
Print the key on paper and put it in a safe. How is that not easy? Or etch the key on a piece of metal, seal it in plastic, and throw THAT in the ground, if your are that way inclined! I don't see the difficulty.
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nicky0
9y ago
But most do.
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nicky0
9y ago
But with floats you just use a divide operation.
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nicky0
9y ago
In what way is holding Bitcoin hard? That's the point of it. It's a store of value that's easy to hold directly.
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nicky0
9y ago
It's very easy to secure. Just generate a private key offline and never tell it to anyone.
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nicky0
9y ago
What if you need to calculate the percentage difference between two monetary values? Ints wont cut it there.
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nicky0
9y ago
Is it just me or does this look a lot like Medium?
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