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by ve55 9y ago
Haha, I appreciate the response, I'm glad that upon doing your own investigation you found that my wording was reasonable. As far as legality goes, it's difficulty to say. I think that a project like this is likely paying lawyers
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by ve55 9y ago
Why is the link at the top of this article ('cyber•Fund') to https://cyber.fund/system/Paragon , a page for 'Paragon', a very shifty high-budget ICO? Given the other things Paragon has paid big bucks
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by ve55 9y ago
It's interesting the large amount of regulations that are involved with gambling, due to how addictive and potentially harmful it is. Facebook seems to be one of the few things even more addictive than gambling. What is one of the only
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by ve55 9y ago
What is their fear based on? If their friends are being physically assaulted for those reasons, then it makes sense for them to fear for themselves. If their fear is based off of sensationalist news articles that significantly over-exaggera
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by ve55 9y ago
This paints a pretty bad picture for IOTA. Ternany, custom hash functions, and a significant amount of buzzwords used to back up their poorly made choices. It's interesting their market cap is still as high as it is, although that&#x27
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by ve55 9y ago
If as a user, these types of things anger you, please just stop using the product. These practices will continue to get worse as long as users put up with it.
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by ve55 9y ago
So they're basically an ICO consultant or contractor? It looks like it's just as profitable to him as it sounds. As far as those marketing techniques go, I'm aware of a lot of them such as paying for press releases or article
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by ve55 9y ago
Their IP address could still be revoked by a hosting/server provider for violation of ToS (or any other reason). In addition to that, there's a lot of security and usability problems, like using TLS without a valid domain name, ha
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The Cost of Decentralization in Ethereum Projects 0x and EtherDelta(hackingdistributed.com)
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Why would it (legally or not) be Namecheap's job to curate the content? What about the server the content is hosted on, its CDN, its DNS servers, its domain registry (not registrar), or so many other layers? If a website that incites v
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by ve55 9y ago
Perfect enforcement is ideal, but definitely impossible, especially based on arbitrary policy statements like 'incites violence'. In practice they will act when content becomes known to them, but a problem with this is that it wil
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by ve55 9y ago
If you set your miners to Bitcoin Cash instead of Bitcoin, the current US-equivalent amount of concurrency you will get will be higher. But, that does not take into account a lot of other variables: One is that as more miners switch to Bitc
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by ve55 9y ago
Link to the Namecheap post: https://blog.namecheap.com/inciting-violence-vs-freedom-spee... The Namecheap post argues in favor of revoking the domain by saying that it is inciting violence, and not just exercising free spee
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by ve55 9y ago
Right, it's not difficult if all you want to do is buy BTC or ETH and then sell it later at some point. Gemini is probably the best option for that. Bitfinex offered KYC/AML for US citizens that wished to interface with fiat (USD)
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by ve55 9y ago
This doesn't surprise me, and I expect other large exchanges to follow suite. Although the intentions of many US cryptocurrency regulations are to protect US residents/investors, they are instead leading to the exclusion of US res
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by ve55 9y ago
I wouldn't want to invest in it either, but the truth is is that these investors will likely all make a lot of money. Just because a project is terrible in various ways doesn't mean the investors in the ICO won't get rich, an
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by ve55 9y ago
You can short these coins in a lot of locations, depending on which ones you want to short. If you want to short larger ones, you should check out bitmex ( https://bitmex.com ), a derivatives platform, or bitfinex ( https:/&#
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by ve55 9y ago
That's a good example that's a bit further back in the archive, but hopefully shouldn't be too hard to find due to how influential it was. Probably better just to read the entire site, some really amazing posts there.
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by ve55 9y ago
If you enjoyed this post you should read a few others that have been posted by Scott recently (on the linked website). If any chance were to be made, the least that I would hope for is that people stop responding to every argument with noth
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by ve55 9y ago
Users don't have to run a full node to use it though. I'd bet that most users just use a 3rd party web wallet (such as Coinbase), and thus are contributing nothing to the network in terms of decentralization.
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Not everyone running a node has a plethora of available resources for it. It would be great if we could keep scaling bitcoin by just increasing the blocksize, but by the time you get to a block size like 8MB or 32MB, things get really diffi
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by ve55 9y ago
It's true that decentralization will decrease if/when Bitcoin nodes require significantly more resources to run. But LN isn't good for decentralization either. Most big blockers want to maintain decentralization as well, they
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by ve55 9y ago
This should be very interesting. It's quite possible that this fork is negligible for awhile. But because parties such as Core will likely refuse to let the segwit2x part of segwit happen [1, many others], if the miners follow through
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by ve55 9y ago
If I have a friend that is visually impaired and is using this, I have to consent to their phone recording me and analyzing me and sending all of that data off to who knows where. And this is just from my perspective - someone who is not vi
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AlphaBay taken down by law enforcement across 3 countries, WSJ says(arstechnica.com)
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This is accurate, all of the ether that bancor owns it can do whatever it wants with - the investors get nothing except a centralized token (BNT) that Bancor can control completely (create, delete, etc, see https://medium.com&#x2
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by ve55 9y ago
The idea is that if a cryptocurrency completely succeed in its goals, there would be no need to convert the BTC to begin with. They would just use it to buy food, pay rent, and so on. Obviously cryptos are not very close to this goal, but y
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by ve55 9y ago
I've done a lot of work involving buying and selling virtual goods (not cryptocurrencies, think of currency in an online game as an example). A lot of communities in these areas love bitcoin, not becuase they want to scam anyone, but p
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by ve55 10y ago
What's the purpose of this article? As far as 'hacking', it states that this person has purchased credit card numbers online and then used them. This can be done by anyone, you only need to know basic things such as how to us
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by ve55 10y ago
This seems like it's a problem with the people that were used in the study, not inherent within the system that they used. What would you suggest, after having read this, to not attempt meritocracy at all because it will be biased when

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