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by patrickk 9y ago
I've invested some BTC, which I earn passively, and ETH, which I've held for some time and have seen enormous capital gains. It makes sense to me to invest to diversify my crypto holdings and try to catch a nice increase in anothe
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by patrickk 9y ago
Here's the ETH contract address: https://etherscan.io/address/0xb56d622ddf60ec532b5f43b4ff9b0... over 20,000 transactions in Ether alone.
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by patrickk 9y ago
> Ethereum Classic's price is no where near Ethereum's but it is still maintaining a good position - 5th by Market Cap and 3rd by 24hr volume. ETC's price is being pumped up (some more context can be found on /r/
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by patrickk 9y ago
The amount of spam, manipulation of news and opinion, and fake accounts on reddit is insane, and reddit's staff (actual paid staff, not moderators) do almost nothing about it. This story is only the tip of the iceberg. Look at the rece
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by patrickk 9y ago
One of the most blatant examples is /r/bitcoin. Some context: https://blog.plan99.net/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experi...
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by patrickk 9y ago
Very clever. Sounds like this strategy is for an ultra specialised product, that you have need of yourself, so that you can write good copy about and which is not sold through the usual channels like Amazon etc. Thanks for sharing. I'l
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by patrickk 9y ago
Any advice on how to find the niche? > Don't look out for affiliate solutions specifically, but keep an eye out for them. Especially when you found some product/service that's hard to find, but very valuable - do they have
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by patrickk 9y ago
Passive bitcoin lending, and bitcoin secured lending. You can partially automate it, there are scripts on github to automatically manage your lending. You are exposed to the full volatility of crypto price swings though.
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by patrickk 9y ago
> Facebook should provide an API so competing and extending services can be freely built on it, restoring competition and innovation and niche utilities it brings. Facebook has zero incentive to do this voluntarily. It would be good fo
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by patrickk 9y ago
> So, net effect will be: poor people who do not use roaming (e.g. because they cannot afford vacations abroad) will pay for the convenience of middle and higher class people who travel a lot. You'd have to be fairly destitute to no
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by patrickk 9y ago
> Can you expand on how crypto currencies relate to positive social mobility? Bringing those who are unbanked into the global financial system is a powerful way to help lift people out of poverty. In many cases, banks are unwilling or un
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by patrickk 9y ago
Dubai has engaged on vast spending to ensure that it has other revenue sources other than oil. It required a massive bailout a few years ago from it's neighbour Abu Dhabi, whose wealth derives from oil: http://www.reuters.co
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by patrickk 9y ago
> I don't know of any stores that take ETH, while plenty take BTC. BTC also completely runs the economy of the DarkNet. Bitcoin is "digital gold" while Ethereum is a bit like "digital oil". So the main value of E
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by patrickk 9y ago
Bloomberg has a very interesting article on this topic also: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-05/germany-s... Reading in between the lines, it seems as if a good chunk of gold has gone missing
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by patrickk 9y ago
> The cleaning worker does not have many connections to CEOs, to wich he can sell his services, but the middle men have. Bingo. Additionally, in many cases the person/team carrying out a procurement process may require (often by law
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by patrickk 9y ago
> might have been going to the same bars or been part of the same local sports clubs as the cleaner, their kids might have gone to the same school. Now they probably live in other parts of the city. I don't think this ever the case,
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by patrickk 9y ago
Not the OP but: http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/?s=munich+lounge I've flown Lufthansa plenty of times, they're great, even economy.
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by patrickk 10y ago
I mined Ethereum last summer on a 6 GPU, dual-PSU rig. Each GPU consumed roughly 220W-250W IIRC, so the heat and noise was considerable.
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by patrickk 10y ago
I haven't seen it, so I can't comment. I've seen lots of people complaining about BBC's "new" Top Gear with the new presenters, apparently it's lost all it's character. The best car show at the moment
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by patrickk 10y ago
It's more about giving people an extra reason to buy/keep a Prime subscription, similar to getting the Top Gear guys on board (Top Gear was the BBC's most syndicated show, and was massive all over the world, apart from the US
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by patrickk 10y ago
Samsung has produced a sentry gun for the DMZ for quite some time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SGR-A1
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by patrickk 10y ago
> I'd go as far as to say that supply chain management probably is one of the few truly viable use cases for the blockchain. I get that there is a massive amount of hype and bullshit around everything "blockchain", but sur
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by patrickk 10y ago
For freeview UK channels, you can watch some of them on FilmOn[1] I'm a rugby fan and it's possible to watch high quality, BBC or ITV coverage of the Six Nations from abroad (BBC Scotland on Wales/Scotland has the higher qual
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by patrickk 10y ago
This wasn't true for Ethereum, at least last year when I was mining it with (used) R9 280xs. Depends more on the cost of electricity in your country. EDIT: also, AMD graphics cards had a significantly better ROI than Nvidia cards.
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by patrickk 10y ago
Would it be worse than our current world of unreadable legalese contracts and legislation?
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by patrickk 10y ago
Cutting out middlemen out of a transaction is a very useful feature of cryptocurrencies which potentially broadly benefits society. For example (in certain parts of Europe, and probably elsewhere too) merchants have to pay a fairly high fix
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by patrickk 10y ago
Since batteries are the single most expensive component currently, knowledge and IP around batteries will be important in areas such as: * using clever techniques to stretch the life of batteries * keeping them in good condition in extreme
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by patrickk 10y ago
Another way to look at it: how big is the global market for gas peaker plants? If current trends continue, solar PV + batteries will be cheaper at some point than any fossil fuel[1], so at that point Telsa energy will begin to consume large
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by patrickk 10y ago
The US government even goes after foreigners committing crimes outside US borders for simply using US dollars . That's how they were "able" to go after the corrupt FIFA officials. "The country’s law enforcers claim the
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by patrickk 10y ago
You wont get Blu Ray quality for sure, but for "normal" online streams the frame rate has been perfectly watchable for me.

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