shanecoin

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by shanecoin 5y ago
It has been the goal since day one. The Ethereum protocol was designed with PoS in mind and has a built-in difficulty bomb[1] to prove it. In short, this difficulty bomb makes it exponentially harder to mine ETH over time. The goal of this
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by shanecoin 6y ago
I hear this argument a lot and have a genuine question. How does Bitcoin electricity usage compare to something that achieves a similar goal? A good example is gold—many people compare Bitcoin to gold. What are the relative electricity cost
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by shanecoin 6y ago
> cryptocurrency has a finite volume of transferrable currency This is true of Bitcoin. Others, such as Ethereum, have a known inflation schedule, which would help alleviate the issue you mentioned as being a currency of the future. Furt
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New FinCEN Proposed Requirements for Certain Cryptocurrency Transactions [pdf](public-inspection.federalregister.gov)
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by shanecoin 6y ago
> Telegram supports end-to-end encryption ("secret chats") with no logging -- as far as I know there is no proof that these chats are untrustworthy. The argument I've heard is that Telegram uses their own encryption protoc
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by shanecoin 6y ago
This seems like a great way for newcomers to learn the basics of `git` though GitHub. A great move by GitHub to try to capture this market of users who may not yet be comfortable with subversion control.
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by shanecoin 6y ago
RegExr [0] does a great job of showing individual highlights even when they are in a sequential string. You can try to implement this if you want instead of showing a callout with a note to let the reader know that they highlights should be
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by shanecoin 7y ago
One of my favorite things about htop are some of the projects that have been created that are modeled after htop but focus on information other than system resources. Cointop [0] is one of these projects that comes to mind. [0] https:&#x2F
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by shanecoin 7y ago
The best part of this repository is that the authors and the commit dates reflect the true date of the event: James Ashley authored and JesseKPhillips committed on Dec 6, 1986 8th Congress authored and JesseKPhillips committed on Jun
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by shanecoin 7y ago
To take advantage of the ICO hype. Telegram could never have raised $1.7B in different, more traditional medium.
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by shanecoin 7y ago
As a non-designer, I am finding it easier and easier to get something professional looking up. Couple this with Material-UI and a solid looking template and you could have a beautiful, custom landing page up a day. There are obviously UX an
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by shanecoin 7y ago
Atlanta Chicago Washington D.C. San Francisco San Diego Boston
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by shanecoin 7y ago
I would argue that this is not just banks but a number of different services. This entire Github repository [1] and this Twitter account [2] are dedicated to sites with dumb password rules. Passwords are not meant for humans. Here is a link
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by shanecoin 7y ago
Google Fi is the only provider that I know of to best protect against SIM swapping due to the fact that there is no human interface. An attacker would have to get control of you Google account in order to attack you—if this happens it is li
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by shanecoin 7y ago
Interesting read. As an FYI, Table 1 (Strengths and Weaknesses of Payload Delivery Ratings) is unreadable on mobile.
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by shanecoin 7y ago
True. During the Libra hearing, one of the senators basically turned to his peers and said (paraphrasing) "Why are we worrying about this now? We have a million other issues of much greater importance to worry about."
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by shanecoin 7y ago
I would argue that Libra is competing directly with the US dollar. It is a new form of currency for a user to obtain and use within the Libra ecosystem. I would imagine that the ideal world for Libra is for a user to onboard into the ecosys
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by shanecoin 7y ago
What time period? In the US? In communist countries? I would imagine what you said has been the case in many time periods in many different countries, but I am sure there are other scenarios. Do you have anything specific in mind?
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by shanecoin 7y ago
What other times in history have private corporations taken on government entities and succeeded? Have any of these attempts been on this scale and against an entity of this power (i.e. proposing a new monetary policy against the US Federal