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by xur17 6y ago
That or provide on and off ramps that users can use to arbitrage any deviations from a value of $1.
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by xur17 6y ago
> The reason we income instead of wealth, is that wealth can go up and down without the owner seeing any benefit. I don't think a wealth tax is the right solution, a person that holds wealth definitely does derive a benefit from tha
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by xur17 6y ago
> Do you think he can put money to better use for all of society than a good government? Yes, I do.
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by xur17 6y ago
A lot of time the merchants sell them at a discount since they are normally gifted, so it brings in new business, some are lost, etc. There are entire communities online that take advantage of these discounts + credit card points, and resel
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by xur17 6y ago
> You'd have to convince the whole ecosystem - miners, exchanges, wallets, buyers, sellers, etc. - to switch over. It's the same network effect that protects Microsoft or Google or Facebook or even Nike: changing peoples'
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by xur17 6y ago
Is this vulnerable to sim swap attacks?
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by xur17 6y ago
The biggest issue here is solve latency. If I'm on a page with a captcha, I would definitely pay $0.0005 to not have to solve the captcha (hell, I'd pay $0.01), but I'm not sure I'd pay $0.0005 and wait 30 seconds.
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by xur17 6y ago
> But no, this is someone suggesting celebrities and billionaires should be the first people we protect. I don't think that's what it's saying though. It's saying by allocating ~500k vaccines (or as few as ~100k), we
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by xur17 6y ago
That, or allot some small percentage (5%) for people to bid on to jump the line. Open auction as you described, possibly with a minimum.
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by xur17 6y ago
I distinctly remember calling my ISP a few years ago to remove my modem charge, which they promptly replaced with a "no-modem" fee that was $1 less than the modem fee.
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by xur17 6y ago
It doesn't matter how "real" you think it is if the government insists on taxing you like it's real. In fact, that's part of the problem.
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by xur17 6y ago
https://foldapp.com
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by xur17 6y ago
Cash on the internet. Basically, the ability to send money to someone else without any intermediary, in the same way that you can hand cash to someone else when selling something on craigslist, etc. This is particularly helpful in cases lik
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by xur17 6y ago
> The truth is excitement and hype around price is the lowest common denominator for people interested in cryptocurrency so naturally it would be the most visible topic. Echoing this, I'm involved in several more technical cryptocu
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by xur17 6y ago
A few notes on that: * This only shows public channels. Most wallet apps that people install on their phone, etc open private channels * This shows capacity, it doesn't show throughput. I work at a company that accepts payments over li
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by xur17 6y ago
> Bitcoin proponents make a big deal when some giant fund invests an experimental $100M in crypto tokens (a small fraction of a percent for the fund), but they don't seem to care about $20B of fake money from Tether (a large percent
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by xur17 6y ago
It looks like Microstrategy's gets to decide whether to convert or to pay back in stock though - it seems like they would only chose to convert if the stock price was below their conversion rate, in which case the purchaser would lose?
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by xur17 6y ago
It's surprising to me that the additional risk is only worth 0.35%.
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by xur17 6y ago
Isn't that the same as buy low, sell high?
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by xur17 6y ago
> Even this thread has comments that assume there’s only one way to make money with BTC — typically buy low, sell high. What other ways exist?
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by xur17 6y ago
A lot of companies have very large cash reserves (ex: Apple). Should these companies distribute this cash to investors?
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by xur17 6y ago
Tether is discussed, multiple times in almost every post about Bitcoin on here.
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by xur17 6y ago
What happens when the velocity of money picks back up?
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by xur17 6y ago
I gather that he's not really the kind of person to "hedge". He multiple times has gone "all in" on his businesses. And honestly, once you have hundreds of billions of dollars across multiple companies, do you reall
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by xur17 6y ago
> I can tell you that even as a European, I often hit a paywall where I couldn’t even pay if I were willing to go through the hassle of paying by credit card. And even if you can pay, you have to give your full name, address, phone numbe
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by xur17 6y ago
I honestly think CBDCs are complementary to Ethereum, Bitcoin, etc.
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by xur17 6y ago
I'm not convinced RenVM is really in the middle in its current state. Currently the core team holds all of the keys for the over $300M in Bitcoin stored by their project [0]. I'd take wbtc, which is held by a consortium of well kn
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by xur17 6y ago
So does physical cash. Perhaps we should outlaw it.
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by xur17 6y ago
Great explanation. One interesting aspect of PoS is that attackers really only have 1 shot, and will get slashed or lose their assets. In PoW, you in theory can keep attacking again and again.
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by xur17 6y ago
I'm curious what how rare it is / what triggers it. In my experience, at least Google triggers hard mode if you use any sort of privacy preserving technology, etc ublock, brave, etc. It's very frustrating.

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