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by nprz 5y ago
What about commercial cruise lines? Do people need to go on cruises? The cruise industry uses over double the emissions of the bitcoin protocol[0]. Furthermore, millions would be affected if bitcoin were to go offline tomorrow. Particular
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by nprz 5y ago
How would you know which miner would pick up this transaction and process it?
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by nprz 5y ago
Yeah there's this whole lecture about the hyperbolic geometry commonly seen on a DMT trip: https://youtu.be/loCBvaj4eSg?t=504
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by nprz 5y ago
Interesting, I was just watching this last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loCBvaj4eSg
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by nprz 5y ago
I haven't spent much time with Next.js, but luckily React will soon natively support[0] SSR. Wonder if Next.js will still be around once React Server Components are fully released. [0] https://reactjs.org/blog/2020&
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by nprz 5y ago
Remember digg.com?
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by nprz 5y ago
> I hope to live in a society where economic experiments can be executed Totally read experiments as experts
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by nprz 5y ago
The bill expands the definition of broker to include anyone who facilities the transfer of crypto: miners, wallet providers, smart contract devs. These people are now made responsible for collecting transaction records for the IRS. That&#x2
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by nprz 5y ago
So you're saying sending money to a bitcoin address would help obscure the identity of the receiver?
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by nprz 5y ago
So why not just send the payment to a Russian bank?
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by nprz 5y ago
Wouldn't it have to be an agency in their own jurisdiction that would prevent the hacker from accessing banking services? They would make an effort to shut down the hackers bank account but not prosecute them?
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by nprz 5y ago
Why not just ask for a paypal or a wire transfer then? If they don't care about revealing their identity?
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by nprz 5y ago
So they might as well just ask for their ransom via a wire transfer or paypal? Since their identity will be known anyway.
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by nprz 5y ago
So why are ransomware hackers never prosecuted?
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by nprz 5y ago
You say all this, but where are all the thousands of silk road/DNM vendor/ransomware arrests? The gov has the tech to deanonymize these transactions, but fails to make any arrests?
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by nprz 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYYh4aPXAM https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/31/out-of-co...
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by nprz 5y ago
Cubans do use bitcoin: https://www.coindesk.com/cuba-protests-bitcoin-donations It doesn't matter if you use VPN with your paypal account, you can still be locked out of your account and your funds frozen. This is not
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by nprz 5y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/31/out-of-co...
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by nprz 5y ago
Read the article linked above and I think it will be difficult to resist the conclusion that Nigeria is an oppressive regime. There's even a wikipedia page dedicated to documenting human right abuses in Nigeria: https://en.w
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by nprz 5y ago
> The dollar volume of crypto received by users in Nigeria in May was $2.4bn, up from $684m last December, according to blockchain research firm Chainalysis. And the true scale of crypto flows through Africa’s largest economy is likely t
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by nprz 5y ago
> I don't see any scientific or technological application that could benefit humanity and would be developed from blockchain technology. Bitcoin is helping humanity right now as I type. There are millions who live under authoritativ
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by nprz 5y ago
Because the original commenter is not arguing in good faith. There are countless examples of crypto and bitcoin helping civilians escape tyrannical states, conveniently non were mentioned.
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by nprz 5y ago
Bitcoin is a technology that improves individual freedoms. No institution can prevent you from holding or transferring bitcoin. When you buy a bitcoin you can remain confident there will never be more than 21 million btc minted, btc will ne
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by nprz 5y ago
This is getting downvotes, but it is true Shkreli got his bail revoked for offering $5000 for every strand of hair collected from HRC.
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by nprz 5y ago
Who knew a distributed/decentralized database could be so threatening.
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by nprz 5y ago
> has produced nothing more than something to gamble on in the stock market So then why did China ban it?
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by nprz 5y ago
They can't arrest a husband and wife for the same crime.
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by nprz 5y ago
> being found to be sexy by others is not against our rules Phew! Glad I'll still be able to host my twitch stream!
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by nprz 5y ago
It's 100% honest. Palestinians have been using bitcoin for exactly the reason I mentioned above. [0] [0] https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-gaza-west-bank-bitcoin-pales...
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by nprz 5y ago
Say you wanted to pseudonymously send funds to a family member with a frozen bank account in say, Gaza, by the end of the day. What tech would you use to accomplish this?

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