robot_no_419

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by robot_no_419 5y ago
Monero is one of the few currencies that focuses on the core project of a decentralized payments system. Go to their subreddit and you'll see they have a strong culture of discouraging price discussion and focusing on the technology.
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I am about to blow your mind with this crazy thing called "situational irony"
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I'd even go so far to say that plenty people on these forums have the required knowledge in physics, mathematics, and computer science to make meaningful contributions to this conversation. This is not beyond the realm of every day peo
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I know what we're talking about and I will say (again) that using the words "failed state" for USA is objectively a bad, ignorant take based on numerous nationwide metrics and the standard of living of the rest of the world.
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
The US is not anywhere close to meeting any of those definitions. USA has problems, sure, but it's nowhere close to being an actual failed state. You'd have to be aggressively biased against the US to argue that it's a failed
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
Calling the world's superpower and one of the wealthiest nations in the world a "failed state" is a bit ridiculous, is it not? Do words not have meaning anymore?
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
Yes, those are all digital assets. It's a much broader class of assets than just virtual currencies (ie, cryptocurrencies) that includes photos, electronic records, and pretty much everything that's electronically stored and can b
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
I'd say that the cryptography and computer science field as a whole have tremendously benefitted from cryptocurrency indirectly. It has led to numerous new cryptographic protocols that are being used outside of blockchain. POW is an ef
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
You come off as rather disingenuous in your way of conversation; pretending on one hand that you don't really know that much or have an opinion but in reality, it's something you've done a considerable amount of research in a
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"It's that the current use cases can be either replaced by preexisting less compute-intensive tech, or that the usage is just meaningless (gambling-like speculation, failed attempt at anonymity, tax avoidance, etc)." The fact
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"I don't see any scientific or technological application that could benefit humanity and would be developed from blockchain technology." Cool, but there are plenty of financial, economic, and political applications of blockch
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
Lots of tech nerds are upset that they understand technology but not finance and economics.
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
"Ah, that's it. I'm not lazy, I have internal resistance. It all makes sense now", I said as I browsed HN and packed another bowl for my bong.
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If it was a futures contract, the cash and the product would be exchanged at the expiry date. If the cash is provided today in exchange for a product in the future, that is indeed a debt - some kind of zero coupon bond where they payment is
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
Did they also disconnect from satellite internet?
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Starting arrays at 1 deeply and personally offends me as well, but I honestly can't see that as being a reason to discard a programming language TBH.
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
"Is your salary higher than the average salary" and "Is your salary higher than the average person's salary" are two different questions when you think about it. I interpreted all of these questions more along the l
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
In the "about" section of the webpage: "ThanAverage is a small unscientific investigation into how we value and compare ourselves to each other." It's just a fun website... don't think too much about it.
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
Not sure what you meant by this comment, but I don't expect any of these risks I listed to realize themselves anytime soon. If you're waiting for these events to happen, you might need to wait a few decades, or maybe you just keep
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
Plenty of things would be bad for crypto, they just don't happen. Here's a long list of things that would genuinely be bad for crypto: Financial events: - Posting lower highs and lower lows (not happening) - Decreasing trading vol
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
You call it a "threat", but that's literally the whole point of Bitcoin. It cannot be censored that easily. It's a feature, not a bug.
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You are also taxed if you use cryptocurrency to directly buy goods or services as well. Based on my understanding, that would include using cryptocurrency to buy a company.
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Because the coronaviruses mutate much more quickly, to the point where your antibodies are no longer effective against the new strain.
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
Here is a tweet where he literally says "crypto should be outright banned": https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1391655510760431617 There, can you stop being so obtuse now? You are wrong. My point is that
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by robot_no_419 5y ago
How about this article, titled "The Political Case for a Blanket Cryptocurrency Ban"? https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/banbitcoin.html The author is extremely prolific and vocal about his support for outrigh
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The author has multiple articles calling for an outright blanket ban on all cryptocurrencies. So in the author's own words, he is calling for a ban on all cryptocurrency.
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FYI, the author has a huge conflict of interest whenever he writes about cryptocurrency, seeing as he's the founder of Adjoint, Inc, a company which digitizes cash and settlement processes for multinational corporates. So it's eas