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brianobush
4y ago
If software was so regular like construction, we could automate most of it.
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brianobush
4y ago
Incorrect assumption: miners use energy regardless of the number of transactions going through.
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brianobush
4y ago
Agreed. Next I want gamers to quit wasting energy too. They should just read books and do something useful with their time.
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brianobush
4y ago
I was just going to comment on this book; one of my favorites as well. The follow on book "Thinking Forth" was similarly mind opening. http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
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brianobush
4y ago
I would like to make quick (<30 min) transactions of large amounts. I can do that with BTC, but it would be nice to do this with USD. Currently, this involves finding a bank, go during the right time, proper account numbers, etc.
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brianobush
4y ago
That would be an amazing price entry!
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brianobush
4y ago
I think people overuse the phrase "Ponzi scheme". You could argue that most stocks are Ponzi schemes. I haven't seen a damn dime from some companies.
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brianobush
4y ago
Security has a price. As a side, the alt-coins that are purely proof of stake use little energy vs Bitcoin.
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brianobush
5y ago
> Even the Tether fraud hasn’t stopped the Bitcoin buying frenzy. OT, but why would Tether impact Bitcoin? They are totally different use cases of crypto.
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brianobush
5y ago
Remote controlled toy. Not a robot.
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5y ago
> Every time citizens try to spread the truth, they are censored. You actually mean spread an opinion. I doubt any one citizen would conduct a trial or research; some may actually look at data, but that is rare. These are opinions, most
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5y ago
Most MDs are general physicians and know little about vaccines other than textbook knowledge that is decades old. Why would you trust them over a team of researchers? Especially at this point of the pandemic when we have so much data showin
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brianobush
5y ago
Six million is not a huge country. The current lighting network can handle millions of transactions per second.
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5y ago
They are limiting mining of a single coin: Ethereum. Nothing is going to stop mining other coins, which are quite profitable. Also, Ethereum is going through two upcoming events which will change the landscape dramatically. July has EIP-155
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brianobush
6y ago
It is much cheaper nowadays to make ASICs, which I think partially explains the expounding growth in NN chips.
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brianobush
6y ago
I wouldn't consider TransferWise fast. I used to send money to Canada from the US and it took a day or so for verification and settlement.
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brianobush
6y ago
Staking (for Ethereum 2.0) will be the mechanism over the current proof of work method. This will reduce the energy cost significantly by removing the requirement of mining.
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brianobush
6y ago
Speed of transactions and less fees.
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brianobush
6y ago
Why? You could easily mine the currency on an average computer with no special hardware. Just because you didn't notice, doesn't mean it wasn't fair.
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brianobush
6y ago
Not all coins have limited supply, e.g., Ethereum does not.
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brianobush
6y ago
Like Tesla stock? In the past year Tesla has gone parabolic, which looks very much similar to Bitcoin. How are they different?
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brianobush
6y ago
How is gold stable? Have you seen it in the last year? The last ten? Hardly stable IMO.
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brianobush
6y ago
This will be addressed by EIP 1559 in the next year or so.
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brianobush
6y ago
I am talking about past prices.
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brianobush
6y ago
Do any simple technical analysis and you will find an upward trend over its existence. You don't look at a narrow window.
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6y ago
This was done in the state of Washington (Wenatchee area) due to cheap electricity from dams.
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brianobush
6y ago
Most BTC holders are on exchanges that all have KYC rules in place, so there is no anonymity or privacy assumed. It is just like buying KO shares on Etrade.
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6y ago
And they were right; it has been with us all the time. Look at health care and food.
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6y ago
Is there a useful signal in the dollar price? Price of silver? They are all used in hedging bets. Same for BTC, people with a lot of cash are looking for a safe spot while we have the possibility of hyper inflation.
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brianobush
6y ago
Yes, there is. My company does sound id among other things. https://www.sensory.com/sound-identification-scene-analysis/
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