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by noddy1 9y ago
I've been paying venezuelan contractors in bitcoin - it works amazingly well for them.
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by noddy1 9y ago
Depending on how you define the money supply then you could say that the total supply of the US dollar is around 12 trillion dollars (based on M2 money supply.) Given that bitcoin has a hard-coded cap of 21 million coins, if bitcoin became
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by noddy1 9y ago
I don't think the google founders started the company "just to sell ads". It is just how they make money. What they DO is make the best search engine, host every video and livestream anyone on earth wants to upload, run the
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by noddy1 9y ago
> Who invests: - Some of the hundreds of thousands of people who have made big $ in crypto - especially ether > How do ICOs reach these people: - There are numerous forums/chatrooms/reddits/twitter posters etc etc.
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by noddy1 9y ago
Often the urge is more "Ive made 10x gains on these things! I'll sell them for $15/$150!".
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by noddy1 9y ago
If you understood and saw the promise, why didn't you load up? If you believe Sathoshi's thesis, and believe that the technology can fulfill the stated function, it is kind of a no-brainer to buy a few/a bunch? In addition,
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by noddy1 9y ago
Anyone who knows anything about biology or genetics knows that it is absurd that there would be zero phenotypic difference between males and females. There are simply different factors driving each gender's reproductive success, and t
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by noddy1 9y ago
MD here - I remember leaving a lecture theatre after 8 hours of didactic lectures, and I could not remember the topic of any of the lectures other than the one i'd just seen, and I could not remember a single fact from any of them. I
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by noddy1 9y ago
"Pop bottles and Hodl"
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by noddy1 9y ago
Coinbase has a lot of issues - they need to raise more VC and hire some support temps to get through the current shitstorm. My biggest issue with Coinbase is that they claim insured wallets, but actually only insure the 2% of bitcoins store
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by noddy1 9y ago
exactly - more info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bancor/comments/6o34fz/heads_up_for... "Tali Yaron-Eldar, Israel’s income tax commissioner from 2002 to 2004, in 2007 founded eTrader, a binary opt
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by noddy1 9y ago
that's great and all, but is the money going to go to people who lost money in various hacks and raids, or is it going to pad the pockets of US-based regulatory organizations?
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one of the issues is that having your currency added to coinbase gives it huge legitimacy. every altcoin would love to be on there. The most simple way for coinbase to distribute the coins would be if coinbase "listed" the forked
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by noddy1 9y ago
There are ways to achieve this though - using a martingale betting strategy where you take small, high risk bets and basically keep doubling up until you win or bust, you can achieve the same risk-reward profile on most high risk markets
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by noddy1 9y ago
sadly capitalism seems to be an incredibly effective and efficient way to completely destroy the rainforests. there does not seem to be any solution.