Quindecillion

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by Quindecillion 1y ago
Do you have any suggestions for an effective way to bring them down? Perhaps building alternatives that can replace them on run in parallel is the best way to do that?
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by Quindecillion 1y ago
Damus was one of the first apps and is pretty good. Lots of people also like Primal. It's well polished and replicates Twitter/X reasonably well.
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by Quindecillion 1y ago
It's still pretty niche. Built mostly for and by bitcoiners, but has potential as a new way of doing social media that isn't reliant on major tech companies.
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by Quindecillion 2y ago
I really hope this is satire.
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by Quindecillion 2y ago
Without being an expert on the topic I'm going hazard a guess that it's due to regulatory moats that keep challengers out of the arena, and banks endlessly lobby to maintain that regulatory capture.
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by Quindecillion 2y ago
What's wrong with energy consumption? I think you might be confusing it with greenhouse gas emissions.
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by Quindecillion 2y ago
They provide a legitimate demand response service i.e. when the grid is generating excess energy that there's no other demand for, Bitcoin miners buy what no one else wants/needs. Buyers of first and last resort.
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by Quindecillion 2y ago
This is the first time I've come into a crypto thread on HN and the pro-crypto people seem to outnumber the anti-crypto people. Is there a vibe shift happening on HN?
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
[looks side ways as central banks and the state]
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
> Inflation encourages investment because if you just sit on your money it gets eaten away by inflation. People shouldn't be penalised for saving money. "Oh, but just invest it!" With investment comes risk. Why shouldn&#x2
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
Why did the gold standard fail? Was the inflation observed with the gold standard ever as bad as what's seen with government/central bank-issued money i.e. fiat?
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
ChainOfFools is tilting at windmills.
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
100 million baht in 2 years? So about $1.5m USD in a year. That's not exactly "staggering" or significant in the context of the Bitcoin network. Unlikely that such operations have any meaningful control over the network or li
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
There's a lot of problems with your post, but I'm going to focus on the one that bamboozled me the most. > illegal mining What exactly is "illegal mining"?
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
> you cannot build scaling technology that inherits the self-custodial, permissionless, and censorship resistance qualities of the underlying ledger Correct, and yet you seem to still miss the point. There are tradeoffs. You can't s
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
No.
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
> Each coin has its own ins and outs, there isn't one that is the best. They have their own time and place. This is just wishy washy rubbish trying to appear "diplomatic" and "balanced". Oh sure, you can mint som
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
> But neither currency has ever done a roll back of this nature again. Maybe not a rollback, but Ethereum has proven it is malleable time and time again. As one example, compare the issuance of ether to Bitcoin. Eth's issuance is a
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
Can you describe to me what the main point of "blockchain technology" is? What is there to innovate in terms of its core function?
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
You obviously don't spend much time in, or interacting with, the Bitcoin community.
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
Best thing about this divisive action by Unity is all the attention it's giving Godot. It's a project that deserves far more attention, and I hope in a few years that it's far more common in popular game development.
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
No one can be trusted, so everyone should have access. Open source is the way to go. The real control is the hardware/infrastructure needed to develop these models.
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
What I find interesting is that most of what you said is applicable to Bitcoin miners too.
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
Yikes... digiconomist. Literally zero credibility there. His name is Alex de Vries and he works for the dutch central bank. To my knowledge, very little of his blog posts have made its way to peer review and academic publication. For some r
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
Here to add my voice to the 3000 crew. My first and only deep foray into the Sim genre, and man did I sink countless hours into that game. I've tried other games of that ilk and none capture the kind of magic that 3000 evoked. Dat soun
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
Which are both fruit!
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
> When I played Breath of the Wild, I felt ... nothing. Interesting. Opposite for me. Playing BotW reignited the feeling of playing OOT and MM for me.
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
Imperfections in vector images make me twitch
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
Yes... I'll never spend my Bitcoin. I'll just starve to death in a gutter as I watch my wealth sky rocket.
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by Quindecillion 3y ago
> You say Bitcoin is real money because it is limited in supply The limited supply just makes it better money. > (artificially since it's essentially a variable defined in the code) Sure, anyone is free to change the necessary

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