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9y ago
How will any kind of blockchain used for real-estate be de-centralized? My guess is that it will be centralized. No government would give up that much control over the property within its borders. Governments want authority to be the first
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That's a terrible situation, but this is exactly why people should want their retirement savings to be kept in an account with their own name on it. When the music stops for a pension, your chair is up for grabs. When the music stops f
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9y ago
Go use any gift cards you've got while you have the chance.
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The day before I finally broke down and purchased it. Aww yiss.
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9y ago
Can you elaborate more on what is going on at universities? Are you saying that grant money comes in for research, but gets funneled back to the university through tuition?
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9y ago
Anybody could report some bitcoin as stolen and make a claim on it at any point in time if the private key for that bitcoin ever became public or was cracked. All you have to do is come across a private key of an old account with no bitcoin
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9y ago
I wish I could have 72 hours to review the front of all my snail mail electronically and either select "release to mailbox" or "shred/recycle/delete". After 72 hours it just assumes you want to release it to yo
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9y ago
Start the conversation with "Have you or a loved one ever experienced identity theft?" "How long did it take to get things fixed?" "Since your social security number never actually changed, what's to stop you f
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9y ago
This is simple, I just need a government issued public/private key, a government username/password, a government OAuth servuce and a government mobile authentication app. Most people won't even need to know the public/pr
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9y ago
I understand the principle of two plus two equals four and I'm not saying we should make two plus two equal three, something mathematicians have warned would harm everyone's ability to do basic math, nor do I want to ban math all
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9y ago
Ideally there's a public partnership between government and the private sector rather than any one side bending the knee, but not so close as to have any secret handshakes.
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9y ago
Users who purchased the credits go from unknown prospects to customers. All transaction fees are consolidated for better efficiency. From that point on, you are servicing a known paying customer rather than spending effort selling your ware
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9y ago
I think you make some good points, but couldn't someone just buy 20 or 50 article credits from you in a single transaction and then choose which articles they want to use their credits on (no time limit and no counting credits toward a
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9y ago
This guy understands market principles.
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9y ago
As far as I'm concerned, It's their land. They can build office buildings right up to the millimeter of the easement line for all I care. But they are actually going to still build some housing which is generous.
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9y ago
Keep reading that wikipedia article especially the "Disadvantages" section: * Capital flight (people invest in other countries with more sane tax policies) * recessionary effects, including job loss. * huge burden on small busines
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9y ago
It represents a massive massive redistribution of wealth rather than a pyramid scheme. Not an even distribution, but a different distribution for sure.
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Whopper coins being tied to whoppers is a one-way street. You can't just take some two week old whoppers to an ATM and feed the bread and patty into the machine to get whopper coins.
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9y ago
No credit history is a wildcard. You could go either way and they choose to not trust a stranger to the system rather than give you huge credit that you may not be able to handle responsibly. It's easy to get a low limit store credit c
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9y ago
Agreed. People with bad credit are pooled together and all charged more to make up for the ones within that pool who default. You can't simply put people with good credit in that pool because they will shop around for a better rate and
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9y ago
At some point, they'll just have to decide which threat is greatest. The internal one that is very real for them or the external one they are making stronger every day.
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9y ago
Just buy Bitcoin Today and hold it for a year. Then hold it for another year. Buy it with money that you don't ever need again. Don't do so much that you feel like you woud be in trouble if you lost it all and don't do it wit
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9y ago
You never run out of things to see if you never go AFK!
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9y ago
"Many American citizens have a criminal record for the crime of being an American citizen." It's better to have the tone of people owning up to their actions and then moving forward rather than saying the US is just giving ou
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9y ago
Is this going to be put to use finding bitcoin hashes or what?
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9y ago
Now if we could only delete files that are allegedly in use by another process.
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9y ago
I hear a lot about hash rates. How are aggregate hash rates confirmed/reported? Does a miner submit every single attempted hash to the network as a potential solution or do miners self-report their total hash rates?
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9y ago
What's to stop the intended recipient of the movie from intentionally and unabashedly claiming the bitcoins for themselves.
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9y ago
This would be a much better resource if it was in tabular format (Title, Author, Description)
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9y ago
An extremely large number of people do not understand this... Take for example people who want to buy a nintento switch for $299. But it's $415 and in stock on Amazon and sold out everywhere else that is listing it for $299. Well I gue
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