unboxingelf

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by unboxingelf 3y ago
Transactions on the Lightning Network are near instant and cost about ~$0.04, or 1000x cheaper than Visa or MC.
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
Contribute to the conversation in a meaningful way.
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
Transaction processors are paid by the proceeds from mining The miner that wins the block gets the sum of the transaction fees and the block reward. Once all Bitcoin has been dispersed and the subsidy is done, miners only get transa
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
Bitcoin fixes this
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
shhhhhhh
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
why are you shilling worldcoin on this website?
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
it’s the worst of both worlds.
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
why should Scam Altcoin control a centralized UBI system? sounds like a scam to me.
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
you forgot the shitcoinery - there is a token, with a premine, unfairly distributed. the VCs that invested (SBF, a16z,etc) will benefit disproportionately. it’s a scam.
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
Similar on the west coast in Oregon - bark beetles decimating douglas fir and pine.
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
They play both sides of the coin. Profit from war via defense contractors, and then profit again on the rebuild. I don’t think the environment is any different. They’ve profited by exploiting the environment and now they’re going to profit
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Kenya suspends crypto project Worldcoin over safety concerns(reuters.com)
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Bitcoin’s role in the ESG imperative [pdf](advisory.kpmg.us)
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
It’s a privately minted coin where the founders control the issuance and hold a large majority. It runs on a proof of stake network. The private company has complete control over the coin. This is absolutely a traditional shitcoin.
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
Worldcoin is simply another pre-mined, VC backed shitcoin - albeit worst because they’re building a biometrics database. - VCs dump money in (SBF, a16z, etc) - 25% of the coins are kept for the founders + investors How many times do people
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
Bitcoin solves the Byzantine fault problem, among other technical feats and for some reason computer scientists are focused on the networks energy usage (which is less than xmas lights in the US or your laundry dryer). how much energy does
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
https://endthefud.org/energy
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
what sort of solutions cook the planet?
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
He certainly has WeChat ambitions, he said it himself! video: https://werunbtc.com/wechat.mp4
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
this is effectively how nostr works. you generate a public/private keypair. the keys are bech32 encoded. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/19.md
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
just facebook doing facebook things.
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
good idea. let’s call it “git”
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
the comments about the layout of “mixing tracks” not following design guidelines or being a standard list/tree/etc struck me. in traditional audio engineering we call them channel strips and their layout reflects the signal flow -
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
check out nostr. it’s signed json blobs. that’s it. protocols should be simple and complexity layered on.
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by unboxingelf 3y ago
agreed. full disclosure: I’m a bitcoiner.
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by unboxingelf 4y ago
“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”
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by unboxingelf 4y ago
I defined an interface and asked ChatGPT to implement it, in Go, as method receivers on a struct named “repo” against sqlite. The code compiled and I wrapped it in unit tests to ensure it worked. Overall saved me an hour of boilerplate, wou
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by unboxingelf 4y ago
Mind blown example from last week: Implement the following repository interface against sqlite in Golang. The method receivers should be defined on a struct called “repo”. <interface snippet> The code used prepared statements a
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by unboxingelf 4y ago
divulging personal information to a Microsoft AI seems like a horrible idea.
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by unboxingelf 4y ago
If you want to put in the minimum effort you’re going to want to stay at big corps. If you want to be a little IC cog in the machine and build what you’re told, stay at big corps.

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