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by xur17 5y ago
I think that's fair. I will say, I select for laptops that are known to have good linux support (ex: Thinkpad X1), and my last few have worked pretty well. Sometimes there are weird quirks, but honestly no more than my macbook has.
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by xur17 5y ago
It's a futures based ETF, which means you pay fairly heft fees when holding it (vs a spot ETF). If you have access to GBTC instead, it's trading at a discount, and intends to convert to a spot ETF, so it's likely the better o
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by xur17 5y ago
> Even if the origin, operation of Tether is highly suspicious: if it functions, is widely adopted and does what is expected … may last longer than people think. I think you're right about this point, and I've been trying to im
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by xur17 5y ago
Doesn't FDIC cover default risk as well?
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by xur17 5y ago
> I have a water rower. I highly recommend it, as draining it makes moving it quiet easy (its pretty light when drained). I never setup a tablet; I just listen to podcasts when I row, the same as I used to when I ran. Which one did you b
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by xur17 5y ago
> No. The risk profiles on these products match that of Robhinhood, Wealthfront, or a Chase checking account (Genesis' custodial insurance policy beats the FDIC's $200k ceiling). Biggest issue is that you don't own your pr
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by xur17 5y ago
That's just not the same.
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by xur17 5y ago
> I'll be very curious to see those comparisons picked apart when people get their hands on these, and I think it's time for me to give Macbooks another chance after switching exclusively to linux for the past couple years. I r
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by xur17 5y ago
I like the concept, but the cypherpunk in me wishes I didn't have to go through a centralized party to accomplish it. To me this is just another competitor, and there's no reason to use this over something like Backblaze.
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by xur17 5y ago
Yeah, I've been pretty disappointed by what they actually shipped. The concept (decentralized, financially incentivized storage) is really neat, and there would be a demand for it, but every time I've tried to use it, it's be
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by xur17 5y ago
But those companies would only complain if Tether stopped redemptions, which presumably would only occur if they ran out of cash. You'd need some other outside impetus to trigger it all.
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by xur17 5y ago
> The big question is when the peg of 1 USDT ~= 1 USD (or USDC) is going to break. Tether is going to do everything they can to maintain that peg as long as possible. Yuup. Assuming USDT is a fraud, Tether likely makes very good money of
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by xur17 5y ago
Bitfinex has a very profitable system with Tether (loaning USDT out, and earning 5-6% interest), so they're incentivized to keep it running as long as possible. If they're smart, they have liquid reserves to cover the first x% of
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by xur17 5y ago
Doing this on aave would actually be net profitable right now with the "liquidity incentives" they offer, and you can apply leverage (deposit USDC, borrow USDT, swap for USDC, deposit again, ...). The rates aren't fixed, so y
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by xur17 5y ago
I've been using it for years - early on I ran into some routing issues for larger payments, but within the past year, it's gotten boring and mostly just "works".
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by xur17 5y ago
> This was meant to rip the market higher and liquidate shorts. Seems to have worked.
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by xur17 5y ago
I read your comment before reading the article, and went in with that view. The article changed my mind. The parent wasn't playing dice games with their kid, they were placing small wagers on the probabilities of things occurring. Buil
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by xur17 5y ago
That's actually the process I use right now. The problem is that it relies upon an old laptop and several usb keys for backup. It's much easier to backup 24 words on a sheet of paper than a full gpg key. Plus, those 24 words can a
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by xur17 5y ago
I just ran across this comment, and realized it also works with gpg. I really wish yubikeys supported this backup mechanism as well (given their size), but I'm very tempted to make the jump.
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by xur17 5y ago
A lot of scaling solutions for Ethereum focus on being fully EVM compatible, and as such are forced to store every transaction on a widely distributed, permanent datastore, which in my mind is never going to be "cheap". Since we j
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by xur17 5y ago
> Looking back, I have to imagine that this 3%+ tax on all American transactions must put a weight on the system. I 100% agree. It's pretty absurd that all merchants have to pay a 3% fee on the vast majority of their transactions wi
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by xur17 5y ago
Is the price you could sell it for used the same as you could buy a new one, or am I misunderstanding?
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by xur17 5y ago
To be fair, these weren't user deposited funds. These were governance tokens they have been giving out to incentivize usage of their platform.
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by xur17 5y ago
Most of the people I know that make any serious money on crypto definitely do report it, which made the founder's IRS thread confusing to me as well. If anything, I'd be more likely to keep it after hearing him say that (go ahead,
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by xur17 5y ago
Mining is a fairly efficient market over longer time periods, so net energy + hardware costs will naturally be fairly close to the value of the mined coins. Which means everyone mining Ethereum can't switch to Ethereum classic, or it w
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by xur17 5y ago
https://lightning.engineering/posts/2020-03-30-lsat/
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by xur17 5y ago
Fees weren't great, but I used one of these for cash on an international trip when I forgot my atm card.
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by xur17 5y ago
This is a really interesting point, and an issue that Bitcoin will likely run into as the block reward nears zero, and transaction fees provide the majority of the miner revenue. Miners could be incentivized to reorg blocks in order to get
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by xur17 5y ago
You can still pick and choose, EIP-1559 forces miners to burn part of the fee, which means it's no longer "free" to the miner to include these transactions. In the case of this transaction, Bitfinex also included a very large
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by xur17 5y ago
If you know roughly what area someone lives in, county auditor websites have a lot of information.

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