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by ve55 8y ago
If you actually read this article in full, it seems quite inane to me. >Now you have actual Nazi groups being in favor of Bitcoin. Weev, one of the biggest Nazi leaders worldwide is into it. There's a great Twitter account that trac
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by ve55 8y ago
You might be able to make a solid case that wage theft results in greater nominal amounts of theft than violent theft, but that doesn't mean it's a bigger problem as the title assumes. The reason we are so hard on violent criminal
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by ve55 8y ago
It's pretty absurd to require users to continually pay you money with threat of revealing all of their personal information publicly if they ever choose to stop paying you. I can't imagine many industries getting away with that ex
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by ve55 8y ago
This brings up some good points about why a philosophy of "If you don't like it (certain surveillance technology), just don't use those products" will be increasingly more difficult to rationalize. It's already bord
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by ve55 8y ago
>Men show a stronger bias towards connecting to other men than women do for connecting to other women. This happens even when controlling for content productivity. If this is true then it seems to be the important piece of content here.
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by ve55 9y ago
This title seems quite misleading, dream control has been practiced by individuals for thousands of years and is easy to learn if you just do some reading and dedicate yourself to it ('lucid dreaming' and everything related to it)
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by ve55 9y ago
According to Wikipedia their profit was 3B last year. If they have 566,000 full-time employees at 2,000 hours each, that is 3 billion USD they have to distribute to 1,132,000,000 hours, so they could raise the wage of each employee evenly b
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by ve55 9y ago
Those sound like the perfect usable solutions. Do not run code on your machine (Javascript) unless you want it to be ran. The only good way to do that if you use a modern browser is using extensions to help you do it. It's definitely t
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by ve55 9y ago
It's pretty strange that the term used is 'Russian Troll', when there's next to no evidence that Russians were involved, as well as no evidence that the compromiser's goal was 'Trolling'. This article has
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by ve55 9y ago
This entire post reads as incorrect and misleading to me. Here are some examples that stood out: >Based on the order book, instantly selling 100 Bitcoin ($1,000,000) on GDAX will cause the price to instantly fall about 1%. This is very m
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An analysis of Tether: concerns over regulation outweigh those of solvency(blog.bitmex.com)
1 points by ve55 9y ago|0 comments
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by ve55 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16291211
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by ve55 9y ago
I can imagine a situation where it would completely collapse and fail to have a market price at all, but it takes a lot more than just "people selling it because it's going down". I can imagine similar scenarios for other ass
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by ve55 9y ago
The difference between your first two examples and the final one is that Bitcoin is decentralized. It only takes a single miner to keep the Bitcoin network functioning (in practice you'd need to wait for difficulty adjustment and it wo
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by ve55 9y ago
All I'm stating is that I do not think the price will reach exactly zero. Of course it's a crash, and of course shorting it is profitable during this, I was short myself in it for a bit. But the bubble has supposedly popped many t
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by ve55 9y ago
>Roubini said the sharp fall was the beginning of a crash that would see the value of the digital currency plummet “all the way down to zero”. It's really hard to take someone seriously when they say the price is going to literally
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by ve55 9y ago
There's alternative explanations for a lot of the very strong accusations made against Tether. People always refer to Tether 'printing money out of thin air', but they never consider the prospect that investors are wiring mon
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by ve55 9y ago
For those unaware, Bitconnect was a Bitcoin-based ponzi-scheme that had operated 'successfully' for quite some time. I don't say 'ponzi' as an insult in the way some do for cryptocurrencies, it was quite literally j
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by ve55 9y ago
I would be skeptical of strong claims about how Bitcoin futures have affected its price significantly so quickly, mainly because their volume is very low when compared to Bitcoin exchanges and even other unregulated futures (such as Bitmex&
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by ve55 9y ago
For those that haven't heard of TRON, it is what I would call one of the most successful scams in the history of cryptocurrency. It is a currency that was made on top of Ethereum (thus, it took no actual effort to create, as this can b
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by ve55 9y ago
You could have other languages that compile code into EVM-executable opcodes, but Solidity is currently the language used by all major players in the Ethereum ecosystem for writing smart contracts. Although there's other options (or ne
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by ve55 9y ago
Solidity has a lot of potential pitfalls that need to be avoided, just like similar languages. Some of these are due to poor or unintuitive language design, although a lot of improvements have been made over time. The wallet bug involving P
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EXMO Director Released from Kidnap After Paying Over $1M Ransom in Bitcoin(cointelegraph.com)
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$140M USD of investor funds still unclaimed since Ethereum's 2016 DAO hack(blog.bitmex.com)
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by ve55 9y ago
It's pretty bad when the type of wallet that is supposed to be more secure has bugs like this multiple times. For reference, this only affects multi-signature wallets, not normal wallets. Very few normal users use multi-signature walle
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by ve55 9y ago
>society has deemed that combating money laundering and tax evasion is worth the cost. I'm not sure that's the case, there's definitely many who would disagree, and even some banks. Complying with these regulations is very
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by ve55 9y ago
Situations like that are, to me, one of the greatest appeals to using cryptocurrencies and decentralized systems or websites. Unfortunately the ecosystem isn't quite there in some areas, so I don't expect these sites to go extinct
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by ve55 9y ago
There's a lot of projects that sound exactly like this. What they all have in common is that they all use an Ethereum (ERC20/22) token and all have very large amounts of money flowing into them, from private investors, companies,
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by ve55 9y ago
It's nice to see action like this being taken in cases so blatantly fraudulent. One thing to take note of here is that the reason why the SEC is taking action is not simply because of reasons related to tokens or securities, but instea
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by ve55 9y ago
A bit interesting, just posted after you made this comment was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15335146 . So maybe companies like Paragon will get in trouble with the SEC for their dealings, even if they do not sell &#x

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