placeybordeaux

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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Wouldn't littering cover it?
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Yeah I have put a pretty significant amount of money into bitcoin and have seen amazing returns. If I thought of it as an investment I'd feel like a fool for not putting more, but as it stands I view it more as a hobby.
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
My personal recommendation would be to have your bitcoins held by a private key you control on Aug 1st. I'd expect tx fees to be pretty bad leading up to Aug 1st as people move BTC out of exchanges.
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
It looks like the part of tulip mania that made it famous lasted less than a year. Bitcoin is going on 8 years at this point.
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
If we only wanted to track the current unspent outputs we're sitting at 54M which interestingly has been holding relatively constant since June. Where as the total number of transactions (size of blockchain in general) is at 240M and i
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
I just moved ~20% of my crypto holdings from BTC to LTC. The rest I'll likely keep close to 40% of my cryptoholdings in BTC, but move it onto my own wallet. If a fork actually happens, I'd prefer to be in control of the private ke
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Is the code available?
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
I guess thats a form of binary search, however thats not what I was thinking. For example: sqrt(7720.17) first guess 50: 2500 Go up second guess 100: 10000 too high go down third guess 75 5625 too low go up fourth guess 86 (for ease of calc
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
More likely you just have 1BTC in an open connection to a company that specializes in strong connections to the LN, such as bitpay or coinbase.
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
If two browsers both implement strictness, but have different standards or implementation bugs then you truly have made the dev's job hell.
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Looks like current fees are closer to 1 USD than 0.2 USD, but that's not the point, the fees are not a core feature of bitcoin. It's the censorship/manipulation bit that's the core feature IMO. There's no need to tr
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
> If Bitcoin is inferior to an existing payment system used by 500 million people, then it’s worthless. If Bitcoin is strictly inferior to an existing payment system used by 500 million, then it's worthless. IMO the major value pr
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
It's a bit of a tragedy of the commons, not sure who will be the third party to impose a cost onto cryptocurrencies that consume excess energy. So far bitcoin has maintained it's lead as the largest cryptocurrency essentially enti
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Ironically the best way to get bitcoin to switch away from proof of work would be to silently acquire 51% share of the mining pool and start voting for proof of stake instead of proof of work.
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Minus the transportation costs.
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Wow that site had a in page pop up that covered the entire page. Seems fitting for a site named "attn".
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Would you consider my private keys secure if I posted them here and said that I would rotate them as soon as someone uses them in a way I don't like?
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Do you mean this one? https://engineering.coinbase.com/may-22-24-downtime-post-mor...
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Yeah it's just another form of trust based exchanges. And if you are going for trust based exchanges you can go debt based and be able to expand the supply to meet the demand. The advantage of bitcoin is that you only need to trust pub
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Using gold as a means of transaction below 100 USD becomes pretty hard. 1 dollar worth of gold is 1/40 grams. That is a tiny amount and you need a ~50 dollar scale to weigh that amount accurately. Gold theoretically has all of these ni
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
This is a pretty poorly researched and written article, but the core idea of switching to a trust-the-individual decentralized network is a solid one. It seems like we'll need a couple more advances before it's reasonable, but if
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Why did you just throw "blockchain" in there. The path to insurance companies on any blockchain is pretty far, you need something to make decisions on if the claim is valid and how much to pay out. The cost of solving those proble
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
> Your example is extraordinary and could be specifically excluded. Complications and hospital related infections are not extraordinary. For most of the history of healthcare they were the norm.
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Props for providing the scraped data set as well!
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
I've only used zeppelin for spark so far, but it's been a joy to work with.
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Do you feel like your life is threatened when someone throws a cup of liquid at you?
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
There's definitely a good bit of gatekeeping here
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Looks good to me now.
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Be that as it may, it's kind of weak to say that it's hosted on ipfs if the majority of the content is actually not on ipfs and on tumblr.
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by placeybordeaux 9y ago
Not a deep copy. Those images are still hosted via tumblr.

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