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by aakilfernandes 4y ago
IANAL but I believe the legal theory is they stole proprietary information from Coinbase (information about an upcoming listing) and used it for personal profit. The "victims" in this view are NOT users of the exchange (or the bro
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by aakilfernandes 6y ago
Almost all crypto lending (at least the defi/smart-contract variety) is collateralized lending. There's still a sort of "counterparty" risk, in that the management has to operate price feeds/risk algos to make sure
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by aakilfernandes 6y ago
Analyses like this just take the energy cost of each block of transactions and divide it by the amount of transactions in the block. If the number of transactions in a block doubles, the average energy cost per transaction is halved. Anothe
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by aakilfernandes 6y ago
Played around with bitmessage for a bit and worked on an alternative for a bit. Here's some thoughts: 1. Like most gossip networks, it uses tcp. Since most consumer devices won't allow for incoming tcp connections, the end result
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Circle, the U.S. Treasury, and Venezuela(circle.com)
3 points by aakilfernandes 6y ago|0 comments
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by aakilfernandes 6y ago
I'm aware, I'm just hesitant due to the counter party/smart contract security risk. In a few years when some of these platforms have more of a track record, I'll probably start using them. Seems like polymarket has done
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by aakilfernandes 6y ago
Spent a lot of time/money this election cycle betting on the spread between Predictit and 538. I did act more conservatively by only making a bet when it made sense given all 3 versions of 538s' model. ROI around 12% (not includin
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by aakilfernandes 6y ago
Why? There's no need to use some game-theoretic machine for getting data when you can just get it direct from the source.
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by aakilfernandes 6y ago
You're comparing two scenarios, one in which you know all the facts, and one in which you don't. In the dice toss scenario, we know everything relevant. In the election scenario, we don't. A model like this is attempting to s
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by aakilfernandes 6y ago
Could this just be a result of low sampling by the author? If you reduce a sample to only include some tiny edge case, the resulting data points are going to be weird in random ways.
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by aakilfernandes 6y ago
Not really possible cause we don't know how much carbon PoW generates. You could naively just assume they generates the average amount (which is what some analysts have done), but I doubt that would be accurate.
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by aakilfernandes 6y ago
The S&P500 is not an index of the entire economy. It's heavily weighted towards the tech sector. The hardest hit businesses (retail, restaurants, service) were small parts of the S&P500 because they usually don't have the
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Partisan Nonresponse in Trump Approval Polls(agadjanianpolitics.wordpress.com)
2 points by aakilfernandes 6y ago|1 comments
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
Sorry, who is "we"? And got a writeup anywhere?
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
Whats missing is proof of delivery, and thats the most important thing. I'm not just paying AWS to store my files, I'm paying them to deliver my files. Maybe this could work as an alternative to glacier. But even then, I doubt i
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
You wrote that tokens in the safe harbor will need less registration and disclosure, but no comment on what that registration or disclosure will entail, or why it is less than sufficient.
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
This article doesn't even bother to explain the proposal
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
In politics, there's a huge incentive for insiders to appear to be a kingmaker. Names like Shadow and ACRONYM play into that stereotype of a behind the scenes puppet master, that politicians will pay big dollars to get them / keep
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
dApp is kind of a flexible word, but the typical unifying feature is that the user has custody of a private key they use for signing transactions on a distributed ledger. Most dApps (at least the ones you access through a dApp browser) have
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
For an order book you have two options: 1. An on chain order book. But saving state on chain is expensive 2. An off chain order book. With an off chain order book, you have to hash and verify signatures for every order, which is expensive.
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
For those unaware, Uniswap is a decentralized exchange without an order book. Rather than matching orders to buy and sell, it has a liquidity pool. As users buy/sell from the pool, the price to buy/sell automatically adjust to mai
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
My guess is the keyword "logo" in their brand name was a big part of their SEO ranking
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
I'm not sure why a blockchain is needed for this. Can't they just have an API where certain posts are "flagged" and hidden in the official UI? If you want to opt-out, you simply use a UI that doesn't hide flagged.
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Show HN: Pollenboard – A decentralized ephemeral message board over WebRTC(pollenium.github.io)
4 points by aakilfernandes 7y ago|0 comments
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
> they don't care and will look at how your token actually works and whether this is an investment contract under the Howey test. This is 100% correct, but you're making the wrong conclusion. You're concluding the SEC cons
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
The author of this article is turning inches into miles. SAFTs aren't dead. The SEC is alleging Telegram has failed to deliver the promises it has made, so the SEC is pre-emptively stating they need to halt delivery. Presumably, once t
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
Might even be profitable! https://money.cnn.com/2010/03/02/pf/taxes/rat_out_tax_cheat/
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
Yea, IANAL but my understanding is if BNB is a security, then by allowing trading of BNB, Binance.us is an unlicensed security exchange
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
Their inclusion of BNB seems incredibly risky from a legal PoV
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
Verification: https://twitter.com/binance/status/1174301770907996161

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