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Bitfinex Used Tether Reserves to Mask Missing $850M, Probe Says(wsj.com)
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
Financial institutions offer a vast array of services, safeguards, and functionality and significantly higher transactional infrastructure versus Bitcoin/cryptocoins. Exchanging cash versus submitting a Bitcoin transaction would be mor
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
The two-party system is a direct result of FPTP election forms. First past the post receives a lot of criticism for restricting options to vote for due to the idea of vote splitting and strategic voting. This leads elections to
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
Marijuana legalization is proof of the contrary
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
Just because you're not interested or motivated in changing something, doesn't mean it can't be changed. City and state level political change is very malleable.
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
Are you implying regulation/anti-trust/anti-monopoly/anti-plutocracy is socialism? Do you understand the difference between state/corporate socialism, and regulations?
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
I've directly noticed Yelp penalizing a local restaurant down in their search results for a key term and when I asked them about it, they told a nearly identical story to what this Reddit poster describes. They had paid for Yelp advert
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
I'd envision "kamikaze" drones being the most feasible thing to be effective first. Basically much smarter missiles. A vision of a swarm of something.. Reminds me of this foreboding demonstration of micro drone
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
Consider what happens when another software hack/bug is found in Bitcoin/Ethereum/cryptocoin client wallet software, allowing an attacker to double spend (rob exchanges/OTC trader/dark pools), or generate more BTC f
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
UTXOs remain the best way to track overall market use and movement. UXTOs can be mass produced in bulk from single users controlling and scripting multiple wallet addresses. Looking at the Winter 2017 UXTO transaction logs, it'
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Dat: // a P2P community-driven project powering a next-generation Web(datproject.org)
2 points by nosuchthing 8y ago|0 comments
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
Cooler, and free: https://www.datprotocol.com/
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
What value does the expensive building offer the city if it's exactly the same? You've actually just convinced me rent control might do a city good by pushing capital investors into more useful pursuits, rather than simply "i
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
What do you mean by vacancy controls leading to reduced rental stock and lowering property values? If high rent is the issue, vacant units should be pushed to the market instead of artificially limiting supply. Cities and residents would mu
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Data Is in the Eye of the Beholder(sites.uw.edu)
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Data is in the eye of the beholder(sites.uw.edu)
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
https://sites.uw.edu/bevanseries/2018/02/28/data-is-in-the-e... "Dr. McClenachan used photographs taken between 1956 and 1985 to document the loss of the large trophy fish in the Florida Keys, and c
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
Proof-of-Work in effect is giving control of PoW blockchains to anyone with the most excess capital to spend on electricity and hardware, in return for the lottery tickets the software generates.
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vi... By putting your artwork on the "BitCoin Blockchain", Verisart will hand wavy magic increase the trust in art dealers and red
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
The author of your paper appears to be attacking another author and yet has nothing to back up their claims other than "Trust me I'm an expert and I know a guy in Hong Kong who tells me what's happening in China!" The ar
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Verify, Dont Trust.(digiconomist.net)
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You seem to have no familuarity with software or computer science, and you're intentionally ignoring and evading addressing the issue with the Bitcoin bugs and hacks on BTC client wallet software, which keeps having bugs/hacks in
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
No customer protection and irreversible transactions = "This is a feature not a bug of bitcoin." Shapeshift is not an atomic swap, it's an exchange and they charge a large fee on top of the current spot price determined by ot
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
The issue you're ignoring is accountability. Decentralized exchanges are a myth. Someone is creating the software and with the added complexity, lack of accountability with anonymous developers comes the risk of malware hidden in softw
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
You're attempting to argue with nothing to offer? hmm looks like your mind is made up but you have nothing to show for it? The main points I presented are provable, leaving only the Bitfinex'ed theory up to the evidence and allega
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
The difference is the ease and magnitude. Where there even cases of demanding payments for ransomware before Bitcoin? Ransomware and international money laundering are easier with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monereo. It's arguably their onl
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
Gold to Bitcoin analogies are a marketing falsehood. On paper things might look similar, but looking into the details and history behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency software development it quickly becomes clear there's a multitude
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
The exact terminology is beside the point. Cryptocurrency software is a large scale enabler for ransom, kidnapping, and money laundering, bribery, etc. There's a reason ransomware was not feasible with cash at the scale it's happe
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
You just said, in paraphrase using cryptocurrency software "[to bypass the legal system is a] fantastic use case", which is anarchocapitalism in its purest form. You can't pretend cryptocurrency is made to bypass only unjust
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by nosuchthing 8y ago
I could almost guarantee that anyone who thinks anarchocapitalism is an innovation has never been kidnapped, ransomed, subject to extortion, or lived under a corrupt regime supported though bribes and cronyism.

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