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by unabridged 8y ago
With all the talk of blockchain, dns should be one of the best uses.
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by unabridged 9y ago
They can see it, but they consider hypocrisy and corruption as just par for the course when it comes to government. Its the reason they are anti-government and want to "starve the beast". The democrats running people like hillary
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by unabridged 9y ago
How hard is it to audit tether? Can't they just point to a bank account or US treasuries that add up to the total they owe?
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by unabridged 9y ago
Blockchain is not going to make some traditional company rich. Its going to be used to build things like a decentralized, public web of trust that can be used for open, public uber & airbnb clones.
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by unabridged 9y ago
>has there been any factory floor, farm, private or government office where things have been different? First thing I thought also. The problem is we have a society where people are dependent on their jobs to keep from being homeless and
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by unabridged 9y ago
This is getting off topic, but I cannot wait for the day when we will be able to transmit music from brain to computer. There maybe genius arrangers/composers who never had the time to master an instrument or software.
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by unabridged 9y ago
The homelessness problem is one the most straight forward social problems that can be solved, unlike nebulous goals like decreasing crime, improving health, creating jobs, etc. Literally all it takes is building more places to live. The res
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by unabridged 9y ago
The problem is a charity paying off your debt does not make your credit better. While its slightly better than a writeoff/forgiveness because the creditor isn't as angry, it still shows they can't pay back loans. Is a future
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by unabridged 9y ago
Tensions aren't really high between China, US, and Russia. We are all huge trading partners, and no one wants to see the money stop flowing. In any time besides modern history they would be considered friendly.
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by unabridged 9y ago
This is what most people don't get, these technologies are all open source. So even if some random coin comes up with a great new feature, bitcoin can just add it or at worst someone can create a fork of bitcoin with the new tech. The
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by unabridged 9y ago
>MAD hasn’t prevented wars I disagree. While yes there were still proxy wars for the last 50 years, there has been no all out world war. Considering that for the 500 years before WW2 there was wars nearly every 20 years between major pow
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by unabridged 9y ago
E-gold, Liberty Reserve, PayPal, ... All of them failed or bowed to the US's FinCEN. Bitcoin was the first without a chokepoint the governments could step on.
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by unabridged 9y ago
It may never overtake USD, EUR, or other majors. But it doesn't have to, even just making it to the top 10 currencies would put it into the trillions. As more country's currencies fail or get reset, bitcoin becomes that much more
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by unabridged 9y ago
I don't think fire safety is much of an issue anymore if you put in modern sprinkler systems.
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by unabridged 9y ago
>By voting for either party we are essentially enabling the either-or system to continue I used to agree, but the parties have no ideology attached to them. Their names are just generic terms regarding democracy and you can see how much
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by unabridged 9y ago
Remote only is the next silicon valley. Office space in a major city is a luxury, and having to do all of your work 8 hours in a row at a specific time is a waste of productivity.
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by unabridged 9y ago
I used to think the same way about 3rd party, but now I'm beginning to view the 2 party system including the primary as just a 2 round playoff. If you really have enough support to contend as a third party, you can easily win the prima
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by unabridged 9y ago
Bitcoin is still in beta, new features can always be added. They are building something to last the rest of the century at least, so its going slow. Plus even without adding anything, bitcoin -> monero -> bitcoin solves the privacy pr
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by unabridged 9y ago
Filecoin or whatever Bram Cohen's project is called, is very interesting. Bitcoin and other blockchains store all data on every node which can be wasteful, but for file storing just having 1/100th or 1/1000th of the nodes wou
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by unabridged 9y ago
The idea of accredited investors horrifies me. The only way to get rich by investing is to get in early when the valuation is very low. These type of rules guarantee that only people already rich will be able to get in early. The reason cry
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by unabridged 9y ago
I would imagine rural high school would be a hellscape of a different sort.
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by unabridged 9y ago
This is just one step to internet becoming a utility. If the companies take it too far and mess with sites people like, the next set of politicians will make it a utility like water or power.
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by unabridged 9y ago
Not the entire chain or even the entire omni chain, they only need to send coins to the current endpoints holding tether.
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by unabridged 9y ago
The problem is you can't tell bittorrent or any other protocol from SSL if its encrypted. The only way to stop it is slow all random ip to random ip connections, basically if one of the endpoints isn't a major, known company its i
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by unabridged 9y ago
>the idea of a trustless, irrevocable, fully machine audited ledger of account This is just giving sentimentality an economic value. Forking should constantly be considered, you should always be looking to maximize the value of your stak
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by unabridged 9y ago
Tether is handling this completely wrong. They should not hard fork Omni and force everyone to blacklist addresses. Instead, tell everyone to halt on-chain trading, take a snapshot of the chain, then create a new tether token and send them
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by unabridged 9y ago
Omni layer wasn't hacked or exploited, this company just lost their private key
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by unabridged 9y ago
Loans against their stock, the company selling bonds. But after cryptocurrency enters the traditional financial system (eg ETH futures), I'm sure he will be able to get loans against it without a problem.
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by unabridged 9y ago
Saudi Arabia has been diversifying out of oil for at least a few years. Everyone sees the same thing. We are one battery technology breakthrough away from gasoline being unnecessary.
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by unabridged 9y ago
The land is being used efficiently. But per person they are using nearly the same amount of police, fire, sanitation, roads, schools, ... All of which is currently funded by property tax. I feel the tax burden will end up shifting away from

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