xur17

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by xur17 6y ago
> Bad actors exist and will do this with checks or lightning, game theory applies to both It does, but with lightning, as long as you are watching the chain periodically, you are guaranteed to not lose money. The same cannot be said for
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by xur17 6y ago
That's a fair point. In order to use lightning, PayPal would either need to hold some BTC in reserves on layer 2, or work with an exchange that accepts lightning transactions.
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by xur17 6y ago
That is correct, but the GP said: > It's like using a personal check - until the bank clears it you're at risk. Which is 100% not true, it's not like a personal check. You are only at risk if: * your counterparty decides t
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by xur17 6y ago
That's my point.
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by xur17 6y ago
Why wouldn't they at least point the NFT at a hash of the image, or an ipfs link? You still have the issue of the file disappearing because no one is hosting it, but at least no one could swap out the content..
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by xur17 6y ago
That's not true at all. You can perform lots of transactions over lightning, and settle with a single on chain transaction. The money clears instantly, and is not at risk, even if you keep the funds on layer 2.
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by xur17 6y ago
Then use the lightning network, it's really what should be used for smaller payments like this anyways. You don't pay for coffee with a wire transfer, for the same reason you shouldn't be using layer 1 for small everyday purc
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by xur17 6y ago
Does it scare anyone else to give the US government direct access to every single transaction we all make (plus the ability to reject / approve them at will)?
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by xur17 6y ago
I think the advantage some people see (which is a tradeoff) is that separate zoning means you can live on a quiet residential street that is away from the hussle and noise.
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by xur17 6y ago
I've tried using a dial-in number a few times, and the latency was horrible - made it really hard to jump in and say things without interrupting others. Not sure if it was just the crappy connection, or if that is a product of using th
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by xur17 6y ago
Coinbase has effectively become a USD / USDC wrapper and unwrapper for me. Most of my trading has moved to dexes.
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by xur17 6y ago
> Currently, less than 5% of front-running activity is performed by miners. How do we know this number? It seems like it would be possible for miners to front run without any identifying characteristics.
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by xur17 6y ago
Both fearless and lacking confidence.
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by xur17 6y ago
Possibly, but it seems odd to me that they would hook it up to the raw visual system rather than showing the "current state" of the car's perception.
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by xur17 6y ago
Agreeing with others here, this definitely isn't good. I'm curious if the car "boxes" in the bottom right view represent all of the cars it can see, or if it can see further out. Because in this case, every time it &quot
766.
by xur17 6y ago
I agree. In addition to a visual anchor, I find that it makes handoffs a lot easier - there are visual queues that can be used to see when someone is about to talk, which makes it easier to avoid talking over each other and knowing when to
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768.
by xur17 6y ago
Wait, 2.5 hours per day?? In the US I barely had 30 minutes outside / PE per day.
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by xur17 6y ago
But at the end of the day, PoW is simply a fee that users of the network pay (in the form of inflation) to secure the network. I'm not convinced it's really a distribution mechanism.
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by xur17 6y ago
> Hertz was in bankruptcy because it couldnt pay its debts, a capital injection might have raised enough cash to pay off its debts and exit the bankruptcy proceedings. While I do agree that it shouldn't be illegal, wouldn't the
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by xur17 6y ago
Sort of, but not really in the same way that a banking ledger is maintained by a bank. You don't need to trust the other 3rd parties to maintain it properly, and you are also "maintaining" the ledger yourself.
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by xur17 6y ago
Is there another way to send money over the internet that doesn't involve a third party?
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by xur17 6y ago
> If you bought an asset and it appreciated you are liable for a tax on capital gains. If you donate this asset that simply eliminates the gain and the associated tax. But this is obviously a thing. If you donate an asset it eliminates t
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by xur17 6y ago
Just to make sure I understand - you tried to resell the H1N1 vaccine?
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by xur17 6y ago
I'm not sure it would - it seems like this would discourage risk taking. Owning stock in a startup would be a terrible move in this case.
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by xur17 6y ago
Cash on the internet. I want to be able to send money to someone else on the internet without trusting a third party, and I want it to settle quickly / in a way that is "cash-like" (no reversibility). It isn't going to s
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by xur17 6y ago
Because "every transaction that occurs is stored in perpetuity on every node in the Bitcoin network" means there is naturally a scaling cap. Bitcoin's lightning network doesn't really centralize transaction validation in
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by xur17 6y ago
> It should not. Current systems manage it fine, because they don't use an insane model which tries to distribute every transaction to everyone, a model you're saying Bitcoin should move away from, at which point, why does Bitc
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by xur17 6y ago
I have no idea, but second layer networks have much different properties than a custodial paypal service has. In terms of USD vs BTC spending - I imagine a lot of people will want to spend USD, and BTC will serve as a store of value and bac
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by xur17 6y ago
> What you're really saying is that you don't think BTC should help banking the unbanked (because they often live in poor countries where their weekly salary is your cup of coffee). That is not at all what I am saying. I'm

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