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by thisisit 9y ago
Yes, demographics for Credit Karma does play a role. But, given that IRS did raise under reporting as the main issue during the fight with Coinbase : n 2013, 807 individuals reported a transaction on Form 8949 using a property description
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Silicon Valley Is into Bitcoin. It Wants to Keep Washington Out(wsj.com)
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Mt. Gox Villain Mark Karpeles's Surprise Redemption(fortune.com)
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by thisisit 9y ago
> While studying social psychology of what makes a kid popular vs unpopular (on Coursera), one significant factor was that an unpopular kid came into the group and tried to play a new game. Whereas a popular kid just went along with what
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by thisisit 9y ago
There is a huge problem with this audit. If we look at the page: https://www.iconomi.net/audit/201804 There are liability and reserve line items. ICONOMI made special effort to spell out their liabilities - giving user
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by thisisit 9y ago
So, Finland doesn't have tax loss harvesting at all or is it specific only to cryptocurrency trading?
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by thisisit 9y ago
HN has a character limit on titles. The original title is 34 characters longer than HN limit. So, people try and edit the title and submit the story. Sometimes these edits don't work very well. So let's cut OP some slack. Maybe Mo
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CFTC Charges People Running The Virtual Currency Known as ATM Coin(cftc.gov)
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SoftBank Fixes Four Years of Tax Filings After Failing to Report Some Earnings(wsj.com)
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by thisisit 9y ago
Is there a way to print this out?
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by thisisit 9y ago
It's important to recognize that this is not an exploit or high-tech exfiltration: it's extremely well-documented in https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB... . and https:&#x2
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by thisisit 9y ago
That is assuming a 51% attack is only about double-spends. There are other attacks which can be done without trying to double spend. Still it this exact belief in math that will become a self fulfilling prophecy and keep bitcoin afloat way
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by thisisit 9y ago
Satoshi said as much in the Bitcoin paper. To quote: If a greedy attacker is able to assemble more CPU power than all the honest nodes, he would have to choose between using it to defraud people by stealing back his payments, or using
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by thisisit 9y ago
You could argue that. And that is a good point. But it is simply price swings or volatility. The job of the stable coin is to be stable during periods of volatility, even high one as that. A black swan event is the one you pointed out about
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by thisisit 9y ago
Something is unstable because market wants it to be unstable. There are no mathematically underpinnings which can stop them from a long time. This is a fallacy which cryptocurrency groups need to wake up from. Sure it looks like math can so
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by thisisit 9y ago
> MakerDAO's DAI coin (currently collateralized by ETH) has already proven quite stable in the face of several black swan events and the price of Ethereum crashing nearly 70% over the past couple of months. That is an interesting cl
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Elite Dating Apps Threaten to Make America’s Wealth Gap Worse(bloomberg.com)
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Barclays Hints at a Cryptocurrency Future. Expect Big Banks to Follow(bloomberg.com)
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by thisisit 9y ago
Aside from the electricity usage concerns, this presents a big risk for bitcoin. Centralization of mining power was one of the biggest issues of the BTC vs BCH debate. BCH proponents wanted bigger block size. While BTC proponents argued tha
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by thisisit 9y ago
Consumption per transaction will go up, actually. Bitcoin's value has to appreciate to accommodate everybody using it as a fiat replacement. And once it goes up, people will add even more energy to mine ever valuable bitcoin.
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by thisisit 9y ago
How big fine should be, according to you, to really deter them?
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by thisisit 9y ago
There is a growing culture of reaction videos on YT. People watch other people watching and reacting to stuff. That never sat well with me. And I always wondered - are people so alone or insecure that they need to watch other people's
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by thisisit 9y ago
I think lot of media seems to misunderstand the idea of algorithms - They are not there to do the job for you, they are there to help you. Taking the dating example from the article - it speaks less about intimacy and more about people&#x27
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Mortgage-Backed Securities and the Financial Crisis of 2008: A Post Mortem(nber.org)
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Harvard, Yale Are Among Colleges Working to Repeal Endowment Tax(bloomberg.com)
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by thisisit 9y ago
I just can't get behind the article. Starting with headline. It just tacks on the word - "startup". Companies re-orient and re-brand themselves routinely. Some companies are more adventurous than others but that doesn't
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by thisisit 9y ago
I came around to this couple of days late, so I don't know if it's worth it but here's my take on it. Your identified problem was - Don't like cooking and don't want to eat outside. The solution you had was - crowds
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by thisisit 9y ago
I am sure Facebook looked at today's internet discourse and thought - If whatabout-ism works for every discussion out there, why not us? Hence, they asked - What about Google? What about Twitter? They just dint go the full mile and
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by thisisit 9y ago
> without Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing capabilities a very large number of Western companies would suddenly be without product. Yes and similarly without Western markets Taiwanese semiconductor will suddenly without a big paying
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by thisisit 9y ago
That is an interesting thought. How is this an action of an individual?

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