oafitupa

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by oafitupa 12y ago
Why would you ask such a question? If anything made you a loser, it would be worrying about whether others think you are a loser.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
What's 16/8? And how can you get up at 4:30 and also "get enough sleep"?
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Astroturfers using nicknames like “KillSnowden” are now also attacking Bitcoin(reddit.com)
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by oafitupa 12y ago
Math and physics look like a lot of fun. Does anyone know if the real fun only starts after like a decade of studying?
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by oafitupa 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=something+from+... If I remember correctly, one of his answers was something like "Because it's the only Universe where we could ask such a question". I think what
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by oafitupa 12y ago
False. It's a store of value, that even central banks use.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
> He's certainly the most knowledgeable person about bitcoin. That's false. There are several persons who are way more knowledgeable than him now (assuming he hasn't been following the developments since he disappeared).
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by oafitupa 12y ago
What you said makes no sense whatsoever.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
People don't like to work either, and yet they do it.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
And you would be wrong, because a scam requires a trickery and someone being fooled.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
A scam is a trickery by which you fool someone into giving something of value to you. Bitcoin is open source, and what we say it is is exactly what it is, and anyone (or any programmer, but hey, this is HN) can check it, so there is no scam
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by oafitupa 12y ago
http://bitcoinobituaries.com/
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by oafitupa 12y ago
50% of the total hashing power only gives you certain powers, and certainly not "control over Bitcoin". For instance, you can't change the protocol any more than you could without the hashing power. The economic majority cont
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by oafitupa 12y ago
See, it's not even clear where patio11 is going with his recurrent rants about Bitcoin. Looks a lot like irrational hate.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
What if I told you I have been using it as a store of value all these years? Seems to work too.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
But now Bitcoin haters will have nothing to say!
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by oafitupa 12y ago
Yes, I have the same feeling reading these comments. I tried Meteor and it felt like the classic monolithic framework that gets in your way.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
To get the bitcoins you need a broker, an exchange, or buy them in person. Check out Coinbase, Kraken, and Localbitcoins. To keep your coins safe you can use Electrum. It will generate a "seed" that you need to print or write down
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by oafitupa 12y ago
You don't have any evidence about that. And like I said, he expressed all kinds of libertarian ideas, so chances are he is.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
Of course it could, but it would be stupid. Why bother with mining, if they don't want anyone else to be able to do it? The point of mining is distributed consensus. You don't need a crazy algorithm to reach consensus with yoursel
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by oafitupa 12y ago
Too bad that you don't like libertarianism, because Satoshi Nakamoto (you might have heard of him) expressed all kinds of libertarian and anarcho-capitalist ideas.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
The real question is why would a government use a Bitcoin clone, instead of either traditional fiat or just Bitcoin.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
In many countries it's forbidden. Eg: Argentina, Venezuela, etc. The government doesn't like it when their people find ways of escaping inflation.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
Except they would have to also create their own mining industry to secure it, or enemy countries could easily attack it.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
You can't print gold either, but that's precisely why even central banks use it as a store of value.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
While I appreciate the criticism, I wonder why Bitcoin detractors' main argument is always "it will never go mainstream", while by their definition of "mainstream" (ie. "the average person"), gold isn&#x27
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by oafitupa 12y ago
Wrong. There are degrees of centralization. Hundreds or thousands of entities holding the blockchain is certainly not centralized. We don't need every single participant to hold the blockchain.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
General people don't care about gold either, and yet it's such a great store of value that even central banks use it.
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by oafitupa 12y ago
We already knew about several black holes more massive than that though (the news seems to be about how ancient it is too, not just its mass): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_massive_black_hol...
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by oafitupa 12y ago
I don't see you complaining about these: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunbar_armored_car.JP...

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