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by toolz 4y ago
I'm genuinely glad crypto enthusiasts spend more time defending their position than they do being as obtuse against fiat as this comment is towards crypto (in my opinion). If they were as unnecessarily hostile, I imagine it might sound
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by toolz 4y ago
you're using electricity just to comment on this thread - presumably you're okay with that, so what makes your electricity usage justified and not bitcoin owners? Both forms of electricity have been paid for (presumably) with res
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by toolz 4y ago
that isn't possible in bitcoin - there are no "obviously unspendable addresses" like I said, the best you can do is burn the private keys, but that isn't verifiable - you can't prove something doesn't exist
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by toolz 4y ago
I see your interpretation now, my apologies. When I read "scheme" I understood that to be slander and mean satoshi had malicious intentions. If you understand scheme to simply be a benign way of suggesting his plan was wrong then
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by toolz 4y ago
I'll just stick with my "innocent until proven guilty" opinion. Taking the most outlandish route possible to smear someones name seems rather unhealthy for everyone. There's no precedence for someone pulling off a huge d
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by toolz 4y ago
and who exactly is harmed when two people engage in free trade with resources they own? In your example the bank robber does not own the money, it was stolen and the robber has no claim, only possession.
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by toolz 4y ago
well that's definitely your opinion, but when the choices are being poor by a poor countries standards or taking a job that allows you to pay for your entire immediate families lifestyle - the choice for me is obvious It's also ob
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by toolz 4y ago
sorry I misunderstood you. Possibly because I can't really comprehend what you're asking still. I won't give you these peoples names and location, if that's what you're asking for - I simply know that I'm aware
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by toolz 4y ago
are you aware of what it means to "burn" bitcoin? It's simply putting the coins in a wallet and destroying the keys. For all we know, these coins have already been "burned"
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this is evidence that he wasn't in it for the money. If you came up with an elaborate scam with intentions of hustling people - how likely are you to be wildly successful, but accidentally lose access to the funds you worked so hard fo
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by toolz 4y ago
which argument do you find to be an "edge case"? My main argument in favor of crypto is the democratization of finance and leveling the playing field, which as we can already see crypto generally only has real benefits to the poor
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by toolz 4y ago
I just don't understand why crypto discussions seems to draw out so many rude comments. If satoshi wanted fame and fortune he could have both easily, but there are a ton of early bitcoins that haven't moved - so obviously he wasn&
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by toolz 4y ago
similar in action, but vastly different in the ethics and consequence - in the same way that stealing a loaf of bread from a wealthy person to save a starving child is considered by most to be ethical, ignoring overbearing laws to provide f
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by toolz 4y ago
it doesn't seem easy to find details and I'm not particularly interested to keep digging, if you legitimately can't fathom that places exist where moving fiat across borders is practically impossible then I don't know wh
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by toolz 4y ago
I'm struggling to understand your connection at all. There's a difference between legality and ethics. Something can be illegal and it would be immoral for someone to obey that law. Similarly something can be illegal and it woul
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by toolz 4y ago
then your friend knows all to well how difficult it is to get fiat to these people. Not every company has the resources to navigate corruption and red tape in other countries when they can simply pay them in bitcoin and be ensured the worke
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by toolz 4y ago
Someone using something unethically does not make the thing being used unethical. Encrypted communication is a great example of this...how many people circumvent local laws with encrypted communication in order to reveal crimes against huma
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by toolz 4y ago
I wouldn't say that's the only use, but it is a very legitimate use. Let's not forget legality is not morality. I consider it highly unethical to prevent someone from trade simply because you don't like where one of the
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by toolz 4y ago
I agree there's certainly a difference, but what you might consider grifting someone else might consider quite legitimate. e.g. I think essential oils and energy crystals are grifting, but many people find a lot of value in those thin
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by toolz 4y ago
> The examples you state are not the primary reason that people want to be paid in crypto This claim can be dismissed as easily as it was made. Quite literally everyone I know getting paid in crypto (which is only a dozen or so) would ra
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by toolz 4y ago
> You’re claiming that these countries prevent people from being paid money for work? Yes, it's quite common even in the US you can't work without a visa. Other countries have much stricter rule depending on things like sanctio
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by toolz 4y ago
Their local regulations, which is exactly the problem crypto aims to solve. Some see illegal activity - I see consenting individuals being enabled to engage in free trade. Personally I would question anyone that would believe people shouldn
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by toolz 4y ago
It's truly amazing how many people spend their entire lives pushing for higher salaries than they need and seeing the immense benefits of competing in the economy, but somehow fall back to the conclusion that greed (the only thing that
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by toolz 4y ago
I know many poor country citizens who have had their families lifted into middle class even by american standards because companies were able to pay them in bitcoin whereas USD wasn't possible. You aren't alone, though. There are
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by toolz 4y ago
I feel like I covered the fact that there's a large overlap between most languages, but to clarify more - when a software team chooses a language they aren't choosing a language based on the overlap, they are choosing it based on
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by toolz 4y ago
There is a ton of overlap with every general purpose programming language. So it's correct to say you can solve the vast majority of problems with the majority of programming languages, but languages differentiate themselves in many di
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by toolz 4y ago
If you're trying to break into the industry you're not going to be working on problems that the language really matters. Pick a popular language, learn enough to be dangerous and specialize once you find categories of problems tha
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by toolz 4y ago
We have not withdrawn from the middle-east - troops increased during trumps era substantially and obama era created new war fronts. We've redeployed troops to somolia this year (technically not middle east, but I think most people asso
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by toolz 4y ago
This guy speaks with a great deal of confidence. I love listening to him talk, but the claims he make are breathtaking and he seems to make them without a second thought. For that reason I was curious to see what sort of predictions he&#x
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by toolz 4y ago
What point are you trying to make? That I'm misrepresenting the usage of Ivermectin by cherry picking facts? Wouldn't you be inclined to show I'm wrong then instead of just imply I'm misleading people? Here you can find

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