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541.
by robjan 6y ago
If you have only five you are already lucky.
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by robjan 6y ago
Why would the general public buy ASICs when they can get no utility out of them?
543.
by robjan 6y ago
That's a big problem then. That means once the block mining reward turns to zero most miners will have to cease their operation to keep themselves in the black. If that happens, the cost of a 50% attack significantly decreases.
544.
by robjan 6y ago
Look at the distribution of Bitcoin. Do you think it's any different? A small number of people (I'm excluding the exchanges here) controll the majority of the bitcoins.
545.
by robjan 6y ago
If Bitcoin is the future and an antidote to the alleged extreme inflation of the US dollar, it makes more sense to buy the Tesla in fiat
546.
by robjan 6y ago
Bitcoin is not counter-correlated. When the stock market corrected last year, bitcoin also crashed.
547.
by robjan 6y ago
Part of being a good engineer is pushing back when clients and managers start making bad engineering decisions.
548.
by robjan 6y ago
Bitcoin is supposed to be trustless but now I have to not only trust the merchant but a stranger on the internet to purchase those items using their fiat.
549.
by robjan 6y ago
I can buy mining equipment or stay at an hourly love hotel located in the red light district in my city according to the map. I guess some of my needs could be met.
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by robjan 6y ago
I can receive bitcoins but I cant buy food with bitcoins or pay my staff with bitcoins. At some point I need to convert these coins to fiat and that's subject to the same controls that GP noted.
551.
by robjan 6y ago
During a bull market the bulls say the bears are stupid. During a bear market the bears call the bulls stupid.
552.
by robjan 6y ago
You could use that same argument for anything you can buy with dollars, including the metal used to mint them.
553.
by robjan 6y ago
Has bitcoin actually solved that problem though?
554.
by robjan 6y ago
An SLA for starters
555.
by robjan 6y ago
The site is a marketing tool for their IPO notification newsletter so presumably that would not be in their interests
556.
by robjan 6y ago
Altria (MO) returned nearly 12Mil since 62 (and even more since its IPO date) https://onethousand.in/MO Home Depot (HD) nearly 10Mil https://onethousand.in/HD
557.
by robjan 6y ago
I think the unwritten part of that sentence is "so he can quit what he's doing whenever he wants, but he chooses to live like this"
558.
by robjan 6y ago
That's not really it. The majority of participants in the stock market are passive investors.
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by robjan 6y ago
This is more of a description of a robo-advisor than an algo-trading system. Algo trading usually describes what hedge funds and market makers do.
560.
by robjan 6y ago
The article does disclose that they hold no positions in cloverhealth which may or may not increase your confidence in the article.
561.
by robjan 6y ago
It's neither. You can't just match up the terms of Creative Commons licenses then assume because they are similar that you can say it's Creative Commons licensed.
562.
by robjan 6y ago
Just throwing ideas out there but each instance could have its "firehose" feed and ping discovery services / followed instances when there is a relevant update. Not sure if there is any benefit over just sending the update an
563.
by robjan 6y ago
The hourly rates are quite meaningless anyway. If you look for the cheapest price, the offshore providers will give you fresh grads who muddle through the work with little guidance and supervision. This is especially true for clients who ar
564.
by robjan 6y ago
The lack of transparency is huge red flag which would make me unlikely to want to do business with this company.
565.
by robjan 6y ago
This was a common investment scam in the past. Create an email newsletter, split it in half and give opposing advice to each side. You then keep ramping up the fees to the winners until eventually they become one of the losers. Once the lis
566.
by robjan 6y ago
I didn't say there is an airdrop function. 100% of the supply of Nano have already been distributed by way of an airdrop. This is stated on the homepage of the project.
567.
by robjan 6y ago
That doesn't address the issue that I raised in that a "landed gentry" has been created by airdropping millions of tokens to a relatively small group of people. The only way to get hold of tokens is to buy them from these peo
568.
by robjan 6y ago
Since the entire supply has already been airdropped to select people how is this "money for the people" rather than crypto-cronyism?
569.
by robjan 6y ago
Tesla is a company which produces goods and services in return for money. When you own stock in Tesla you own part of the company so it's not something that would be classified as a store of value since it's economically productiv
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by robjan 6y ago
Tell me more about some used of DeFi. So far I have only seen DeFi being talked about in the context of yield farming which isn't an economically productive activity.

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