user-the-name

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by user-the-name 5y ago
The difference is that the former is pointless frivolity, and the latter is, in this case, defending against a literal invasion.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
"Bitcoin is about freedom", you say as a response to Bitcoin being used to fund an invasion? How do you not see the absurdity of this claim?
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by user-the-name 5y ago
Yes, obviously. I don't like him and his politics much at all, but it is very clear that all you said is the case.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
The second world no longer exists, by definition.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
I really do not want to use a file system that has problems at edge cases. A file system needs to be incredibly stable.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
That hasn't been the case for most of the decade. I already told you what does: Completely custom-built hardware that can do nothing but bitcoin mining, such as Antminers. For instance, here is a shipping container that burns 1 megawat
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by user-the-name 5y ago
No, nobody mines bitcoin on GPUs. Surely you would know that if you're here trying to make argument about it?
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by user-the-name 5y ago
It stands in for a gambling token, that is all. Speculators like to gamble using it. That is bringing actual value to society. We can get rid of it and it will be a net positive.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
Absolute bullshit. Bitcoin does not even use processors for mining, it uses massively specialised hardware that is absolutely useless for anything else. No advances in bitcoin mining will translate to gain in anything else. It also massivel
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by user-the-name 5y ago
Literally nobody buys goods with bitcoin. Any services you buy tend to exchange to real money as soon as they get the payment.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
The good thing about Bitcoin is that we can just ban it, since nobody actually uses it for anything important. It could be turned off tomorrow and nothing of value would be lost.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
If there is a "golden age of tech", it is right here, right now. I would never in a million years go back to the tech I've used in the past. This kind of empty nostalgia is the epitome of intellectual laziness.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
The "total market cap" is a completely fictional number that represents nothing real whatsoever. It makes no sense to compare anything to this number.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
No, that is obviously not the only kind of value you can have. That is one. I am saying bitcoin has none of them. And, again, mathematically, bitcoin trading is negative sum. This has nothing to do with what the price is. It can go up, do
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by user-the-name 5y ago
Everything? The default state after checking out a git project with submodules is for them to be in the wrong state! Keeping the state of submodules and the main repo in sync is a complete shambles. Try mercurial to see how to do it correct
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by user-the-name 5y ago
I have plenty of views. But you declared right from the start that you have chosen to blind yourself from the truth, and I know exactly how pointless it is to try to argue with someone in that position, so I simply will not.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
I can't find it mentioned anywhere, but does jj support submodules? And does it make them actually work, unlike the broken mess git has? This is the biggest thing keeping me using mercurial, the fact that it has subrepos that work.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
Why? People are doing it all the time, and you are rejecting them outright. Why should I bother to do the same when the last hundred times, you would not listen?
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by user-the-name 5y ago
> If positive news comes out about bitcoin, the price can immediately move without any trading I mean, it can't? The "price" is literally defined as the price of the latest trade. The mistake you are making here is the as
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by user-the-name 5y ago
Unfortunately, my truth is reality. It is not really my problem that you have yet to realise this.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
None of it is unfounded or manufactured. If you think it is, you are blinding yourself to some pretty obvious truth that you do not want to believe in.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
There is no known functional and scalable layer 2 solution. Lightning, as designed, can not scale.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
Here are the words of Satoshi himself: > Once it gets bootstrapped, there are so many applications if you could effortlessly pay a few cents to a website as easily as dropping coins in a vending machine. This claim that Bitcoin was never
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by user-the-name 5y ago
> the bias is comical and the talking points are recycled as a new article every week (scams!, speculation!, hype!, wasted electricity!, tether!) There is a very strong bias towards the truth, yes.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
Any decent human will speak up when they see a scam being perpetrated.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
Cryptocurrency trading is not the same as a regular market. None of the things that make a regular stock market not a zero-sum game do not apply to cryptocurrency markets. And cryptocurrencies are actually negative sum, due to miners and fe
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by user-the-name 5y ago
The optimistic view is that it will all crash and burn tomorrow. The pessimistic view is that it will survive, and cause even more harm than it has already.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
Every single one of those dollars came out of the pockets of somebody who lost money because they invested. You got lucky. The majority of people did not.
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by user-the-name 5y ago
The first line of the Bitcoin white paper: > A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Now, if you want to sa
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by user-the-name 5y ago
There is no safe way to wind down mining. As mining becomes unprofitable, mining equipment will be shut down. But it will still exist, and it will be in the hands of people desperate for cash. This means that the price of 51% attack will dr

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