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by spottybanana 6y ago
Or the owner might just have died or might be in prison. I'm pretty sure that the reason for not moving those coins is because BTC is radioactive. It might be partly a reason, but surely not the only reason. If you really needed the mo
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Not agreeing, but it is interesting viewpoint. Personally I have been involved a lot in the crypto space, and seen lots of bank account freezes and similar problems happening to crypto traders. Maybe sometimes there is something nefarious g
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by spottybanana 6y ago
So, you are glad to see articles that support your viewpoint? Don't you regret at all missing all the gains you have made along the years by not buying small amount of BTC? In the end the guy who wrote this article made quite good amou
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Lawyer? Isn't the most effective thing just to quit and look for another job. Maybe you can milk some money out of the company with a lawyer, but you are going to pay mentally by investing your brain to that issue. It is better to focu
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by spottybanana 6y ago
> - The primary lesson I learnt is that it doesn't matter if you work hard. Nobody notices, and even if they do you will likely not get anything out of it. Do your job, but don't kill yourself over it. Work-life balance is king
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by spottybanana 6y ago
If you think Bitcoin is bad, don't use it. Bitcoin is free market protocol. Often in free market it comes down to preferences, and this kind of opinion pieces are just a statement that I don't like what other people don't lik
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by spottybanana 6y ago
XRP is a security, so is Ethereum, as both have been issued to collect initial funding. Bitcoin is not a security because it hasn't been issued to collect funding. To me the distinction is very clear and simple. However if I really nee
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by spottybanana 6y ago
The professor probably had other options, but decided that this is the route to go. And once the decision is done, there is no turning back. In the early phase of a startup it quite often happens that equity is given on very relaxed way on
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Well technically no contracts are broken? Calling it a theft is overblown, there is no theft happening if all contractual obligations are met.
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by spottybanana 6y ago
The OP however didn't say who has the power to fire and on what kind of terms. If the other founder can fire him, the 3% was offer for him to leave on good terms. Because they could just fire and OP would get actually 0% and no discuss
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by spottybanana 6y ago
I understood "walk away" meant walking away without any kind of papers signed. That would mean, that if the other stakeholders want something from OP they have to approach him and make a clear offer. And I think that is also the b
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Good analysis. It sounds in principle that for OP there isn't really much options to win big, sometimes that happens in startup land - mentally it is good idea to admit that this project wasn't personally very successful and start
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by spottybanana 6y ago
> If it was about some "religious anti-sex work movement," then the credit card companies wouldn't still process payments for the legal brothels in Nevada. Which they do. Don't know about brothels, but even in the str
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by spottybanana 6y ago
I use large doses just for fun. It is great. Haven't had migraines either, I think I will keep using just to prevent the migraines.
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Quickly googling, here is an estimate that annual shoplifting value is 15-20 billions. Should be quite easy to find data on this because companies probably research it a lot - might be skewed ofc. https://www.securitymagazine.com
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by spottybanana 6y ago
But the easiest group to exploit, also with least negotiating power.
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Personally I'm an atheist, but I still find this piece of religious text interesting. It tells us that this is as old problem as human civilization is. How do people share the work and the fruits of the labour?
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by spottybanana 6y ago
In my experience the fields which are seen as critical and involve software, are quite regulated. For example finance. There are lots of various standards that are enforced, for example PCI-DSS for credit card processing and so on. Yes, pro
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Well many of them count as success for the founders when they issue some tokens and sell them to stupid investors... Getting rich is an use case.
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Whether KYC/AML laws make sense is totally beside the point. That's like saying because cannabis being illegal makes no sense, therefore it makes sense to sell cannabis publicly in large quantities and not comply with any laws.
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Not doing any KYC/AML with that kind of volumes can't really be seen as competent by any standards. Of course customers love it when KYC procedures are not needed, but from their own perspective they should have tried at least som
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by spottybanana 6y ago
> The best solution (and I believe a bunch of research backs this up) is to better incentivize your line workers and reward them appropriately. I know one study in particular that showed broad-based stock option ownership among employees
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by spottybanana 6y ago
From government perspective the prosecution with jailtime will mean lengthy court processes with an army of lawyers. Lots of costs for government and headache for the government officials. Instead if you just impose a fine, the government w
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by spottybanana 6y ago
What about the simplest explanation - shareholders believe that when people meet in office face-to-face it generates more value. If WFH produces superior result, it should mean that companies endorsing WFH should be better investments and m
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by spottybanana 6y ago
With investing you can always wait an year or two with the cash and think about it. However if you end up doing nothing with the money for 10 years, you will lose some serious purchasing power. I would just put first everything to an index
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by spottybanana 6y ago
> Presumably the author would do much better with a VM or something from OVH, they'll just shut you off or limit you before it becomes a problem (not that they would care about 30 TiB). That's actually what I love about these d
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by spottybanana 6y ago
To me it sounds like people somehow assume that wealth, success, happiness are about the same thing, which necessarily isn't the case. You can be wealthy and still miserable, successful without being wealthy, etc. I didn't really
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by spottybanana 6y ago
The article points out that being grumpy brings success, which probably doesn't correlate with happiness.
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by spottybanana 6y ago
> can't they just block all bitcoin traffic at the ISP level? Are you serious? That block is trivial to avoid. VPN's are used mostly for porn and that kind of things, but with BTC you have clear financial incentive to work arou
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Paypal is not really in that many countries... And I think ACH is US only? Also BTC is exchanged to physical cash since the early days. Nowadays BTC ATM count is in the thousands: https://coinatmradar.com/charts/growth&

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