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by tristanj 6y ago
Looks like another corporation will soon be joining the crypto buying frenzy. That’s bullish news for Bitcoin!
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I encourage you to read the original source. A letter to shareholders is not a press release. This was legally filed with the SEC.
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The media spin machines are in action. Pick the worst parts of the letter, ignore the good parts, and use it to reinforce the chosen narrative. People think totally differently when primed. Compare how the comments here are totally differen
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That's assuming a BTC miner even agrees to process the transaction. Why would a BTC miner want to deal with the headache of tainted bitcoins? It's such a problem that Marathon Digital Holdings, a major bitcoin miner, has stated th
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by tristanj 6y ago
This RT article is clickbait and spreading misinformation. The tax is on revenue generated from users in the US, not on all revenue. If creators provide no tax information at all, only then will YouTube tax all global revenue. And YouTube
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by tristanj 6y ago
Satoshi's wallets have 1.1 million bitcoins, which are worth $56.4 billion at today's price. That would place Satoshi Nakamoto among the 25 wealthiest people on the planet.
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The market cap of crypto is not large enough to accommodate a several-dozen trillion dollar an outflow from stocks/bonds into it. Crypto would have to rise massively in value for that to happen. That's one of the bull cases for cr
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by tristanj 6y ago
Elon Musk has single-handedly made hundreds of millions of people into passive crypto investors. Tesla stock is 1.9% of the S&P500 by weight, and Tesla's Bitcoin holdings makes up ~0.2% of Tesla's market cap. This means for ev
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They're already looking into using Blockchain for this solution https://www.finextra.com/finextra-downloads/newsdocs/embraci...
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It's a fundamentally better system. It allows all parties to know who owns what assets with extremely high statistical certainty.
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It's a good thing that DTCC aware of this issue and is looking into accelerating this to T+1 (followed by T+0) using blockchain and distributed ledgers. https://www.finextra.com/finextra-downloads/newsdocs/emb
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by tristanj 6y ago
Non-archive.org version: https://www.euromoney.com/article/b1320xkhl0443w/naked-short... The "self-replenishing pool" missing image is available here: https://web.archive.org/web/202
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This is not the grandparent comment's point. SpaceX is not the weakest link here, the user on the ground transmitting radio signals is. Satellite communications are easily identifiable, and can be rapidly triangulated.
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> Meanwhile, I can't remember a covert operation done by China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cyberwarfare Major incidents include the 2010 Google gmail hack, the F-35 blueprints hack, multiple militar
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TSMC is the 11th most valuable company in the world, with a market cap of 489B US dollars.
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Very much disagree, a speculator can be investor. See the definition of the term on Investopedia. > Speculators are sophisticated investors or traders who purchase assets for short periods of time and employ strategies in order to prof
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by tristanj 6y ago
No, this is fake news. The page was never verified in the first place. https://www.soyacincau.com/2020/12/24/did-facebook-remove-ap...
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China used stolen data to expose CIA operatives in Africa and Europe(foreignpolicy.com)
4 points by tristanj 6y ago|1 comments
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This is a result of the bullwhip effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect Rolling supply chain disruptions were predicted to happen early this year when China shut down much of its economy due to the corona
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by tristanj 6y ago
For those who haven't seen, here are some excerpts from AirBed and Breakfast’s Application to Y Combinator. https://i.imgur.com/55yP1CZ.jpg This is from the Harvard Business School case study on Airbnb.
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by tristanj 6y ago
I find the hypothesis that the virus originated from contact between wild animals and humans in the area unsatisfactory, given that: * The most genetically similar zoonotic virus to SARS-CoV-2 was found in Horseshoe Bats, in a cave in Yunna
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by tristanj 6y ago
The pangolin intermediate host theory, which has been heavily promoted by Chinese state media, has been invalidated. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7405773/ https://www.news-medical.n
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by tristanj 6y ago
Then what is your most likely explanation of the origin of SARS-CoV-2?
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Any member of Congress can propose a bill, including bills that have no chance of passing. Most bills go nowhere. Flagging this as off-topic. See these posts by dang for why https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&a
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None of the iPhone 12 models support mmWave 5G outside the US(the8-bit.com)
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Ex-App Store head says Apple Arcade violates Apple's own policies(appleinsider.com)
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I think the author is very confused about what China agreed to in the Paris climate agreement. China agreed that they will start reducing emissions by 2030. Specifically, China agreed they will take emissions from the year 2030* as a baseli
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Because that's what they told the US house antitrust committee. Apple CEO Tim Cook testified that “we [Apple] apply the rules to all developers evenly”. But that's clearly not true, looking at the examples listed above. The poster
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Facebook isn't a big enough player to get a free pass. Apple know they can bully Facebook and Facebook will back down (they have done this). Here's a few examples of Apple selectively enforcing their rules. Apple agreed to charge
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by tristanj 6y ago
The app store guidelines are a complete joke. Apple can change the guidelines at any time. They make up 'rules' to their own benefit. And selectively enforce existing ones so major players get a free pass. Developers have no recou

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