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by wickoff 5y ago
I became convinced that NFTs are worth something after understanding that there is little difference between an outrageously expensive watch and a rare NFT. One shows off your wealth in person, the other will let you show it off online.
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by wickoff 5y ago
You may be better off using rails instead to fully capitalize on rapid development through automagic.
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by wickoff 5y ago
As a person who is hopelessly addicted to refreshing feeds I can say that TikTok is the first app in 10 years that replaced reddit - my previous digital drug of choice. Their algo is just to good. People without rich and fulfilling lives do
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by wickoff 5y ago
I watch YouTube and play music through my TV. I have no choice.
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by wickoff 5y ago
Me too. I think his friend circle became almost entirely right leaning since the move and his viewpoints are no longer balanced. I listen to a few other podcasters who definitely can't called lefties, yet they manage to present things
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by wickoff 5y ago
I've always been a somewhat active person (at least 10 hours spent walking/cycling every week). Did it just because I liked it, but it never helped with weight loss. Switching cardio for resistance training (5x5) helped immensely
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by wickoff 5y ago
If I decide I want to be long BTC, why not also lock it up to earn fees?
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by wickoff 5y ago
As long as we're banning things we should also ban all videogames, they are too addictive. There is nothing more precious than time and it can be spent much more productively. And alcohol for obvious reasons.
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by wickoff 5y ago
Low on-chain fees are actually a disaster for Bitcoin. Once mining rewards dwindle to nothing due to halvings fees would have to rise astronomically to maintain hash power.
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by wickoff 5y ago
Bittrex is a dead exchange these days. On a particularly frothy day DOGE hit something like 80B in voilume across all pairs and exchanges.
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by wickoff 5y ago
Global availability, no questions about the purpose of the loan, not difference in rates depending on purpose, transparency enforced by a smart contract, no hidden fees or upfront costs.
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by wickoff 5y ago
Let's say I have some Bitcoin and I want to buy a car without selling any Bitcoin. I can take out an over-collateralized loan in a stablecoin at 4% APR. I can transfer my stablecoin to an off-ramp exchange and pay for the car. Now two
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by wickoff 5y ago
https://sushi.com is the best example.
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by wickoff 5y ago
It's understandable why people consider 100% of crypto to be a scam. But several projects have an actual P/E ratio now. You can't deny a P/E ratio. Value is being created here. In 2013 bubble everything was bitcoin clone
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by wickoff 6y ago
As far as I know leveraged trading isn't accessible to Binance users without KYC.
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by wickoff 6y ago
Legislation is problematic too. I can't be bothered to make a decision to make a decision about storing cookies every time I visit a website, so I click yes every time without reading.
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by wickoff 6y ago
Exactly right. All needs to do is outlast everything else. This where the store of value narrative comes from.
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by wickoff 6y ago
If the owner of Bitcoin's 51% hashrate decides to take anyone's coins, then Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general is over. They all go to 0. If that happens, then all of the critics will be proven right. Hasn't happened so fa
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by wickoff 6y ago
Can you really not find a single use for bitcoin? Here is the most obvious one - true sovereignty over your capital. When you have bitcoin, you have have physical ownership of a digitally transferable asset. Not legal ownership where a cust
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by wickoff 6y ago
Bitcoin is too volatile to be useful as a currency, it is too volatile because its market cap is so small.
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by wickoff 6y ago
> What are you going to do, fork it? Yes. Miners with huge operations whose profitability depends on people's trust in bitcoin are going to refuse to deploy the new software.
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by wickoff 6y ago
She received payments from multiple insurance companies for the same flight.
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by wickoff 7y ago
For me it's the questions. He gets these incredible guests with deep understanding of their respective fields and yet they keep being asked nonsensical question they can't possible give a meaningful answer to. For example almost e
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by wickoff 7y ago
In Europe revolut has virtual cards with monthly spending limits. Cash App must have a similar feature in the US.
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by wickoff 7y ago
I think that some primal instinct gets triggered when you are building your own thing. Hundreds of thousands of people use the product I helped build at my current workplace and I don't feel a thing. Yet having even a 100 daily users s
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by wickoff 7y ago
Crypto caps are calculated by multiplying the price by the potentially circulating supply. In most cases there isn't enough liquidity to accommodate the biggest holders, so there isn't much actual circulation happening. If there w
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by wickoff 7y ago
I've blocked Reddit and HN on my desktop, now I am watching more YouTube, drink 3 times as much coffee and tea and am hyperaware of what's going on outside of my window. Seems that specific websites aren't the cause, the prob
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by wickoff 7y ago
The ketamine their are using costs a few bucks. Most of the money goes to the clinics for facilitating the treatments. Depending on the kind of session it can take about 2 hours and there are a few medical professionals involved. This cost
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by wickoff 7y ago
There are hundreds of Ketamine clinics using it off-label already, the problem is that the insurance won't cover the off-label use and a course of about 10 infusions might cost around $5k at the current rates.
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by wickoff 7y ago
Yes, that's exactly the reason. They are filtering racemic Ketamine just so that they can patent and upsell it at exorbitant rates.

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