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by once_inc 5y ago
I feel like the person you are replying to is going to take this discussion into the direction of bitcoin cash being the real bitcoin. If so, please let it be noted that all other cryptos, including forks of Bitcoin, aren't bitcoin, an
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by once_inc 5y ago
There's quite a few lottery systems running on lightning and Ethereum, using smart contracts with clearly defined, verifiable randomness. I also like the idea of geohashing, by XKCD, where they take the date's most recent Dow Jone
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by once_inc 5y ago
Indeed. This is why Bitcoin maximalists tend to be set aside as "religious zealots" while their conviction is a direct result of these three answers.
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by once_inc 5y ago
This feels very much like teletekst, which is arguably the best thing on TV worldwide.
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by once_inc 5y ago
for those interested: there's a larger resolution picture on her blog.
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by once_inc 5y ago
The file explorer appears to lack autocompletion. This feels like a project very close to being usable, but held back by minor issues with the UX.
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by once_inc 5y ago
I personally fear the lone-wolf attack drastically reducing in cost and effort. Where it would once be cost-prohibitive to design and manufacture your own nerve gas or lethal virus, these days with AI/ML and Crispr-cas and the like, it
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by once_inc 5y ago
Are you also off-planet because of the fallout that would wash over our planet for the next several months? Because the blast radius is quite limited, but a nuclear annihilation scenario has vast amounts of radioactive dust circling the pla
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by once_inc 5y ago
There are actually quite a few companies doing things with bitcoin that generate revenue. Bitcoin isn't supposed to make you money; it's supposed to be money. Dollars on their own don't generate revenue, nor is gold locked
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by once_inc 5y ago
Schumacher says: nothing much for a couple of years now.
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by once_inc 5y ago
others have jumped onto your post and made some good comments. - Crypto is fun for people who are in a repressive government (Canada). - Crypto is fun for people who live in a country that is being mismanaged monetarily (Venezuela/Leba
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by once_inc 5y ago
Was anyone else expecting them to dox themselves after a chess game and the feds linking the money to the hacked stash?
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by once_inc 5y ago
Then they should have just called it a rocky planet. Earth-like is a massive misnomer/clickbait here.
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by once_inc 7y ago
Chromium is struggling here too. Bit ironic given the title of the article.
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by once_inc 7y ago
no, it is merely the proof of having done that work. Hence, the name.
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by once_inc 7y ago
> (...) the security of the BTC chain will plummet. Nitpick here, but what will happen is that the cost of mining blocks will outweigh the revenue of selling its fees. This means that miners will at some point decide to stop mining bitco
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by once_inc 7y ago
That is the price to pay for decentralization. That said, further optimizations will increase the number of transactions per block, and second layer solutions can scale bitcoin to a vastly larger size.
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by once_inc 7y ago
> LN requires that both sender and receiver be online at the same time to transact. This never existed on Bitcoin. Correct, but this is clearly stated in its whitepaper and is one of the tradeoffs to get massively more txs and privacy. &
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by once_inc 7y ago
> but Bitcoin (BTC) failed to scale. Citation needed. > When fees hit $50/transaction, with weeks long confirmation times, most companies backed by DGC failed to switch to the upgraded version of Bitcoin (BCH). This was despite B
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by once_inc 7y ago
He's basically explaining the snowflake method, right? Start with a most basic explanation of the plot, sometimes just a single sentence that people would use to describe the book. Then slowly build out from there, adding more details
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by once_inc 7y ago
down probably. Just noting things in a list and having that list to base your actions of.
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by once_inc 7y ago
The Red Mars trilogy, by Kim Stanley Robinson. All of terraforming Mars in a hefty triple-tomed story that leaves naught unexplained.
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by once_inc 7y ago
So did I, but I wouldn't classify it as hard sci-fi. Too many things left unexplained for that.
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by once_inc 8y ago
Bread. Look at the Arab spring. All countries that revolted did so in a period when the price of bread exploded. That price explosion was caused by financial mismanagement of the leaders of the country. The dollar has lost 98% of its purcha
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by once_inc 8y ago
The refutation ( https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-reports-of-bitcoin-environm... ) is a medium article. Please try not to let that influence your opinion about the article though, because it does rightly point out the fl
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by once_inc 8y ago
All that would accomplish is taking control of the revenue generated while they are in control. If the big mining centre is working with private keys that are unknown to the operators, then they would not be able to spend the coins previous
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by once_inc 8y ago
Bitcoin is censorship-free, permissionless money. It is sound money (the single soundest money ever conceived) and this allows for an age of monetary freedom where citizens are no longer forced to fight an uphill battle against centrally pl
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by once_inc 8y ago
> several different cryptocurrencies have used this method and recovered to a functioning blockchain The most notable is Ethereum, with the DAO hack and the subsequent bailout. Did lead to Ethereum Classic, which is a fork that gained so
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by once_inc 8y ago
Correct: https://www.reddit.com/r/RaiBlocks/comments/7l9o9y/raiblocks...
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by once_inc 8y ago
But a lot easier than getting them from a hardware wallet like a Ledger or Trezor. Exchanges are hacked because of human stupidity or laziness. Hardware wallets are significantly harder to hack.

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