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by once_inc 9y ago
Diablo 3 did pretty poorly because of an un-fun system. No Man's Sky was a flop, a horrible flop. Both games have been heavily changed and built upon to make them fun and worth their price.
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I doubt that any of the decision makers at Bosch have enough theoretical knowledge to be able to form any sort of opinion about it.
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No. There is no valid reason to do so.
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by once_inc 9y ago
Monopoly is in its core a flawed game, because it was created as criticism against capitalism. The 'cutt-throat' way to play it is buying 4 houses on your streets, but not getting a hotel. Since there is a limited supply of houses
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by once_inc 9y ago
A simple fork invalidating coins originating from the double spend would be enough. You've just spent $2B to achieve something that the network can invalidate with a dozen lines of code. It would set a bad precedent, but it did cost yo
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by once_inc 9y ago
> So many people forget that the original paper clearly states that Bitcoin is an experiment. Where exactly in the white paper does it state this? I've just looked it up, and don't see any reference to Bitcoin being an experim
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by once_inc 9y ago
bitcoin's mempool is being cleared off 5-10 and even some 0-5 sat/byte transactions. If you set a correct fee, you can have $0.5 transactions that confirm within 10min.
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by once_inc 9y ago
I went back to the article and read the comments after seeing your comment. Thanks!
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Bitcoin doesn't easily scale in its current form. For that, people have invented the Lightning Network ( https://lightning.network ). LN is a layer 2 solution which sacrifices a modicum of trustlessness in favor of fewer on-c
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In juli 2010, 1 bitcoin was worth 0.08 usd.
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Bitcoins (the unit, not the currency) can indeed be destroyed by using OP_RETURN. This has been done in the past, and is still being done right now. It is however highly unlikely that all 21 million bitcoins will end up in that drain. Bitco
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by once_inc 9y ago
Because banks don't want us to save, they want us to _borrow_.
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by once_inc 9y ago
I'm so glad that this discussion is held in literally every forum I frequent that mentions bitcoin. I never tire of it. /s
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Mine was 5 sat/byte. 3 conf in 30min.
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Do you know what it really reminds me of? Tasty Wheat. Did you ever eat Tasty Wheat?
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The lightning network is one of the proposed solutions for scaling bitcoin further.
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Cryptocurrencies indeed move the trust from a centralized accountant to a distributed system guarded by both code and math. Instead of trusting a mostly anonymous group of people that stand to gain from abusing that trust and have done so i
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The author uses a slide to say: > fiat currencies issued by strong stable states capable of taxing their citizens, with banking systems effective at encouraging widespread borrowing, with large, diversified domestic economies (and so the
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Don't forget to download a bitcoin wallet and add a bitcoin address for donations to the page.
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The trilogy is actually named "Remembrance of Earth's Past". That name is apt enough, though a bit bland. The Dark Forest is a pretty good concept though, and much more important to the story than the three body problem.
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I recently described the scope as an exponential function, which is really the only acceptable way of doing justice to the book.
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Part two and part three are both exceedingly more brilliant. Very much advise you to read them.