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9y ago
not only that ERC-20 is a standard, so apis and bots are easy to write on top of them, ever more reason why forks won't replace ICOs
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9y ago
I saw one exchange charge 0.5 btc to list and support new forks but charge 0.1 btc, if it was an ERC-20 Ethereum token
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9y ago
Facebook, Google, etc, didn't scale well from day one either. The software infrastructure for blockchain space is improving. Cryptocurrencies markets are more egalitarian so they will always be more favorable than traditional markets
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9y ago
So we should rather invest in IPOs that pop as soon as they're available to retail investors right? If our monetary system was so good we wouldn't be in 19 trillion in debt and cryptocurrencies would have no reason to be adopted,
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9y ago
The founder who was given the title as "inventor" in this article is not the inventor. He did not mention the developer who help do the C++ source code and actually invent Dogecoin. I would call my cryptocurrency a joke too probab
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9y ago
it cost on average around $1 USD to perform an average blockchain transaction and millions of transaction are made a day, the demand is transparent and the data is available for everyone to see. If it was a solved problem I would expect the
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9y ago
no one would be able to write a smart contract on top of your cryptocurrency if it is not on the same blockchain or follow certain standards cryptocurrency exchanges expect to have in a tradable digital asset. For example in Solidity a lang
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9y ago
Coinbase was operating at a loss last time I check, it's not like they can stake their user's ether funds. Also, the Ethereum addresses they create are intended not to be used for smart contracts
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9y ago
he is trying to trigger a bank run, but doesn't realize our whole financial system runs on fractional reserves
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9y ago
did they make the first million bitcoins they mined unable to spend? No founder reward means no mining so it is very true, there was an advantage, the crytokitties creators are not allowed to breed kitties, but take a cut from every sale wh
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9y ago
the founder of bitcoin gave himself/herself a mining headstart with low difficulty, this can be seen as a founder reward
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9y ago
These are new users, whose funds are lower than $200 because they haven't been validated to buy more? "Locking Users" seem like every user new and old
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9y ago
the velocity of money increases price, look at how the price of litecoin is rising when bitcoin mempool is congested, if Coinbase didnt play politics, Bitcoin Cash will be pumping right now too, decentralized exchanges are coming though in
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9y ago
cryptocurrency can be used in the background for fiat money settlements, It has made me a better software engineer for sure, secure code will always be in fashion. Also the majority of online gambling which is a billion dollar industry is b
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9y ago
Sure I will, do you own what you call digital tulips or are you being a wise ass? I'll let the price do most of the talking, your clueless doubts makes me want to buy more. Even without the price factor, I'm interested in sending
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9y ago
at this point you lost a lot of money not investing and it still look like an up-and-coming technology, in the future Solidity developers will be in demand like React developers.
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9y ago
Sorry I chose to reply to a clueless person, who did an ad hominem and criticize people investment as digital tulips, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum have cheap transfer fees but you don't own either, you just wanted to hate or haternews, th
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9y ago
Anyone that says digital tulips at this point sounds hurt that they didn't invest, do some research on Bitcoin Cash, so this time next year you don't look as foolish
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9y ago
cyptocurrency markets are more inefficient than traditional, so it has more profit opportunity, a larger spread between bid and ask price incentives people to arbitrage and engage in market making, I made a ethereum bot for an exchange and
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9y ago
they added an asset to the market that has no intrinsic value other than to help the company that created it and to fuel the market making bots that run rampant on exchanges. There is some social utility to this
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9y ago
people who hold Tether trust the Tether system that is enough to keep the peg to the dollar for now, but I have doubts the peg holds
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9y ago
if it was possible to lose less electriciry the possible attack vectors are increased, with billions dollars in market cap, Bitcoin has been very secure at the protocol level, there is still the counterparty risk of exchanges
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9y ago
The fundamentals of the market demand for Bitcoin works, the liquidity is amazing
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9y ago
High Frequency Trading is in the regular stock market and has a larger barrier to enter
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9y ago
I consider it a winner a long time ago, sold my bitcoins for it when the ratio was 0.15, accumalated some more at 0.055 and now its 0.25, I predict 1 BTC = 0.5 BCH before the end of the year
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9y ago
it is not for nothing but for wealth protection, it is impossible to do a DDOS attack because you have to burn energy as a collateral, people will exploit anything when it comes to money so this is the only fair one
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9y ago
Segwit is a horrible blocksize increase strategy, the mempool is filled with unconfirmed transactions that 1mb believers call spam
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9y ago
where are you getting those false numbers from, this is the distribution https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.... Trading on attitude is not the best trading analysis strategy, I'm glad you sold
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9y ago
I want less fees so I can increase my profit margin, some are doing fraud in cryptocurrency which is bad but as MtGox fiasco has shown this free market with more freedom than traditional markets is self-correcting
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9y ago
Robbery! You can't use Alice funds who is not a short seller to lend out to Bob, that is a Ponzi scheme
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