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by yanmaani 5y ago
Seems rather pointless. I mean, you're not sending them crypto, you're sending crypto to BlockPay and hoping they collect it. That being said, 85% of conversations about NFTs are non-consensual, so you may very well find a market
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Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Are they, now? If a politician needs $X,XXX,XXX in bribes to even get out of bed, does that make him better or worse at making decisions than the average man on the street?
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by yanmaani 5y ago
If people can't tell truth from lies, why even bother having elections? You mention Brexit. If it was a foregone conclusion that people weren't sharp enough to vote either way, why not just ask Queen Elizabeth whether they should
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by yanmaani 5y ago
A $5 monthly donation will in 12 months' time turn into $60, so it's not a great mystery why they want the recurring income. In addition, it's more stable. If you just get money once in a while, planning is harder. If you hav
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by yanmaani 5y ago
I responded to this by e-mail, but I'll put it here as well: > The central criticism of ENS in this blog post - that the multisig (in the past) or the DAO (now) could take away your .ETH name - is not true. No one has the ability to
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Grant that the obsession people have with citing everything - even basic stuff that everyone knows, like old poetry - is quite absurd. Just put it in italics or quotation marks or something. Either people are smart enough to figure it out,
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by yanmaani 5y ago
What is a "md5 file"?
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Yeah, there exist a few like that for WordPress, I know a few big sites use them. I think Simply Static < https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ > is pretty popular?
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Money is not "literally worthless"; the state guarantees that you can use them to pay your debts, by cancelling all debts that you pay using dollars, whether your creditor agrees to it or not.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
For example, by raising the new registration price to $1,000,000,000. Then, the DAO can register it at zero cost (it will get 100% of the fee refunded instantly), but anybody else would have to pay sticker price. I believe there's also
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by yanmaani 5y ago
That's ... not true? Children can learn a basic model of the greenhouse effect in school, and do so in most civilized nations. Whether this is sufficient is another thing entirely, but I would personally contend that (non-propaganda) e
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by yanmaani 5y ago
This is just a link to a substack; did you mean to link to an article?
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by yanmaani 5y ago
> modern science suggests that god probably doesn't exist Huh? From my understanding, "science" has had the same perspective on this since like forever: it's unfalsifiable either way, but both explanations are at leas
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Yes, but that doesn't work if what you're voting on is consensus-critical (e.g. the ordering of blocks). If you're talking about other rule changes, sure. In practice, I think most would consider Bitcoin's sluggishness o
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by yanmaani 5y ago
People stop patronizing bars, restaurants, shops, etc, instead spend their leisure time/money/etc on infinitely more scalable digital services. Beyond imagination?
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by yanmaani 5y ago
> Half the post is about Bitcoin. Yes, because Bitcoin is an actually working, properly designed system used by people for real-world ends. > A large chunk is about the ENS token distribution That would be two lines just below "W
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Can or will?
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Proof of stake has a very specific definition. In Bitcoin, it's possible for a client to bootstrap with only knowledge of protocol rules. This is not possible in a proof of stake cryptocurrency, which also requires a trusted third part
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Tor seems to do okay in Russia. Maybe not stellar, but in practice, it seems to work fine. Same for Signal and all this other stuff.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
I can flash loan 0.4% of the supply from Uniswap right now. I need 1% for quorum. Is my math off?
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Is that always true, or just in some cases? For example, a website hosting child pornography I think would be quite detrimental to the value of the project. Would the ENS holders seek to maximize their economic value, or "property righ
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by yanmaani 5y ago
It's the economic majority - an exchange or a merchant has a lot of economic influence, some guy with a VPS almost zero.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
If I borrow 51% of the outstanding supply, how much skin do I have in the game? What if I buy $100 million worth of ENS, while simultaneously shorting it on DeFi? What if I tell people that if they vote for my proposal, I'll raid the C
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Bitcoin doesn't have any keys to throw away. How is Bitcoin doing?
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Of course, but what happens when they selectively raise the renewal fee for your domain to $500 quadrillion? (Also, what prevents them from changing the controller back, if they have 51%?)
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by yanmaani 5y ago
> wouldn't gaining access to everyone's wallets render it useless since BTC would no longer have value It would only be useful for the wallets with known public keys. That's mainly old bitcoins, new ones only have its hash
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Yes (actually, it would only have to be a soft fork), but that would require serious coordination. Ethereum has done it before, so it's not literally impossible, but it would require the whole of the Ethereum network to do it, not just
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Why does this need a DAO? Why does someone have to "own" it? They could just have it be run by the smart contract without human intervention.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
For enough money, they might. If I'm not mistaken, the "community treasury" has 50% of all ENS. This comes to 0.5 * 100MM = 50MM ENS. At current exchange rates (assuming no slippage), that comes to $17.92 * 50,000,000 = $896,

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