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by sparkie 8y ago
> If the asset is physical, you have to solve the issue of making the blockchain match reality. I know you said there's a ton of work being done in that space, but I have yet to see a lot of solutions. There are no solutions . The
902.
by sparkie 8y ago
Deflationary "problems" are largely strawmen. We've never had such deflationary money systems to know how it plays out long term. In the end, people still need to eat and drink, and they're going to pay to meet those nee
903.
by sparkie 8y ago
"If only my opponents surrendered, everything would be peaceful" I think the far-left could equally do with some reflection. The far-right is not the only problem in today's politics.
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by sparkie 8y ago
The difference is Intel have a proven track record of producing actual products. Mill Computing have not produced anything tangible yet. The strategy appears from the outside to be one of aggregating IP in the hope that they'll license
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by sparkie 8y ago
Ludovic Courtes created a Boot-to-Guile image a few years ago, packaged using Guix: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-02/msg001...
906.
by sparkie 8y ago
I've been called fascist for suggesting that: Hiring decisions should not be based on skin color. Hiring decisions should not be based on gender. The irony is that these were all celebrated by the left previously. Now they are seen as
907.
by sparkie 8y ago
Some more recent publications here: http://arc.cecs.pdx.edu/publications
908.
by sparkie 8y ago
Mono used to have a CLA to Novell. There were GPL and LGPL parts. It turned out to be beneficial because it enabled Xamarin (made up of mono developers) to acquire licensing rights to redistribute and relicense it after Novell dropped suppo
909.
by sparkie 8y ago
Changing from BSD to proprietary does not invalidate any prior BSD license on work that has been published. In such event, you can still distribute the existing source code, or fork the project in order for it to remain BSD-only.
910.
by sparkie 8y ago
People not being responsible with their money is enabling the fraud. If some random stranger in the street asked you to hand them some money in return for a product you want which they will send you in the post, are you gonna cough up the c
911.
by sparkie 8y ago
Stable in the short term, that's because inflation takes its time to work its way through the system. It doesn't all hit at once. The inequality is that the money printers get to spend their newly printed money at face value at th
912.
by sparkie 8y ago
Cryptocurrency has inherent value. Fiat has no inherent value because it is just numbers somebody typed into the computer.
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by sparkie 8y ago
That was basically my point. The fraud protection works from the consumer side. It is useless from the business side, where no amount of evidence will convince them that you took a payment legitimately. Paypal are the same. They side with t
914.
by sparkie 8y ago
You're right, but on paper at least, the government sets the rules by which the central bank operates. However, we all know that the governments have been bought and paid for by the banks for a long time now.
915.
by sparkie 8y ago
Only people who have enough money to invest can do so. For the low-earner, it becomes near impossible to save up for investment because the savings either need to be devalued or put into risky investments. Saving is a perfectly viable choic
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by sparkie 8y ago
> Is that you Theymos? No > How many software choices do BTC users have? I know the answer to this. It's one. You've got one choice to choose from What? There's a bunch of BTC clients. Bitcoin Core is the defacto refere
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by sparkie 8y ago
Dogecoin is priced in Bitcoin though. Everything will eventually be priced in Bitcoin. And Chrisbucks are the reason why altcoins have no long-term value. If anyone can create coins then there's an infinite supply and their value will
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by sparkie 8y ago
As a good example of getting a discount, I've made several purchases through purse.io and saved plenty of money. A proper immediate and legal use-case, that people can exchange their otherwise illiquid Amazon credits for Bitcoin by tak
919.
by sparkie 8y ago
The only direction that benefits miners is the direction where they have the maximum potential for profit by selling the coins they earn through transaction fees. This will inevitably be the network which most people are transacting on. T
920.
by sparkie 8y ago
Bitcoin does not need governance. That's your problem. It has a better model, which is every user is autonomous and has the volition to choose the software they wish to run to interact with the economy they wish to participate in. Gove
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by sparkie 8y ago
You can't take the day to day price variance of Bitcoin as an indicator of anything at all. It is completely unpredictable and yes, if you intend to spend your money tomorrow, it is not the right currency for you. I'm not intendin
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by sparkie 8y ago
There is no transaction limit for lightning payments. The quantity of payments through Lightning is limited only by computing and network resources along the routes. There are limitations on opening and closing the lightning channels. That&
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by sparkie 8y ago
Take any point in Bitcoin's history and compare its value then to three years earlier. There is no case where it was worth more three years before. Sure, you can't predict the day to day price swings because the demand is not goin
924.
by sparkie 8y ago
> In your comment you state, without any source or reasoning behind your claims, that: > - Finite supply of currency is good > - Inflation is bad > - Bitcoin is "best money" > - Everything else is bad money My argum
925.
by sparkie 8y ago
The problem with the "directions on how to increase the blocksize" is that they're not compatible with what Bitcoin is. It's a system that nobody has the authority to change. The only people who can change it are the peo
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by sparkie 8y ago
I made the point of specifying long term (by this, I mean say 5 years). Bitcoin is unpredictable short-term because demand can change significantly on a day to day basis, where supply is predictable. If you take any point in the bitcoin his
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by sparkie 8y ago
Because it allows you to save money without it losing value in the long term. That is, bad government policy cannot reduce the value of your Bitcoin by printing more of it.
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by sparkie 8y ago
If miners attempted to hard-fork in inflation, do you think users would follow their chain? It was already attempted on the first halving from 50BTC to 25BTC. Guess which one won? Miners don't make the rules. They enforce them. The net
929.
by sparkie 8y ago
> And how would the users do that? Do you imagine all the users getting together and taking a vote? Yes. It's more likely people will follow the rules in the software client they prefer. Therefore, the developers of those clients ha
930.
by sparkie 8y ago
People would only follow mining power that represents their interests. They don't care about individual miners. If a majority of miners were not representing the interests of the users, the users would find a way to push those miners o

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