chrismmay

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by chrismmay 3y ago
Bitcoin has no leader.
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by chrismmay 3y ago
I'm looking forward to more Headlines focused on entrepreneurs' race, age, weight or other distinguishing physical characteristics. /s
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by chrismmay 5y ago
That's not necessarily true. Some people mine with 100% solar power and their ongoing expenses are almost zero.
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by chrismmay 5y ago
Indeed. In my experience the legal system is highly biased and corrupt.
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by chrismmay 5y ago
If I have enough, I will run a validator. If not I will probably do some defi like lido + curve + yearn. I may also mine something else like flux or raven.
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by chrismmay 5y ago
I have 30 GTX 1070 GPUs.
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by chrismmay 5y ago
I agree with you of course, but those are not “ETH PoS” staking, strictly speaking. They are just layers on top. You definitely make more running your own validators.
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by chrismmay 5y ago
Decentralization is about not needing anyone’s permission to participate and being free from censorship. You don’t need good credit or even ID to open an account and no one can seize your funds because of debts, fines, or taxes. Of course
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by chrismmay 5y ago
I personally have been mining ETH for years with equipment I bought for $20k in 2017 - 2018. I’ve made many times my investment back. That same equipment is still running profitably today.
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by chrismmay 5y ago
I am not intimately familiar with the staking terms on Coinbase, but from what I recall, you should be able to withdraw your ETH at any time and receive it in at most a few days. If it has a lockup period, those terms would be very clearly
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by chrismmay 5y ago
Not a great analogy imho. The ETH consensus change from PoW to PoS changes the way that blocks are signed and validated. No more PoW. Instead, now validators decide. It’s more like unanimous voting. If you try to sign a fake block, you
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by chrismmay 5y ago
This has no impact on anything really at all. It’s just re branding, hopefully to clarify things. ETH does not change with ETH2. It’s just a series of upgrades to eliminate wasteful proof-of-work mining and improve scalability.
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by chrismmay 5y ago
In the US, probably around 10,000. US Banks all operate by virtue of a banking license issued at the state or federal level. Banks must do as they are told by these centralized authorities or else they lose their license.
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by chrismmay 5y ago
The minimum amount required to stake is 32 ETH. That’s $75k at today’s price. There are cheaper was to “stake” but those are not really “ETH PoS” staking. So no, it does not “cost less to stake”.
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by chrismmay 5y ago
There are over 200,000 ETH PoS validators running already. I think that’s pretty decentralized.
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by chrismmay 5y ago
There is no “ETH 1.0” token or “ETH 2.0” token. There is only ETH. They never “convert”. Anyone can fork the code at any time and keep mining. Many have. ETC and ELLA are a couple examples. Ethereum Genysys is a recent project in respo
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by chrismmay 6y ago
I don't think they test at all because... who cares? It's Facebook. You get what you pay for.
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by chrismmay 6y ago
Wow. Now if they could just figure out why my news feed has said "Something Went Wrong" at the bottom for about the last year or so.
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by chrismmay 6y ago
Ohhh, written in Prolog at the National Institute for Mental Health https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_NI...
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by chrismmay 6y ago
There is a decent GANTT plug-in for Jira called WBS Gantt. I am not affiliated with them, but I've used it successfully. https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211768/wbs-gantt-cha... .
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by chrismmay 6y ago
Was it the Flying Frenchman Frankie Zapata? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UbOG0ERCwM
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by chrismmay 6y ago
Alfred is just creepy. They offer it in my apartment building here in Manhattan. They'll do stuff like come and unload your dishwasher or fold your laundry.
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US, UK, other countries warn encryption creates ‘severe risks’ to public safety(cnbc.com)
5 points by chrismmay 6y ago|2 comments
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Government Cheese(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by chrismmay 6y ago|0 comments
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MSI CEO Charles Chiang “Dies Suddenly” at 56(tomshardware.com)
2 points by chrismmay 6y ago|2 comments
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by chrismmay 6y ago
So, to add insult to injury, they require that I provide them with my bank account number and my routing number just to get my refund that could have been simply credited back to the credit card I used to pay them originally or issued via a
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by chrismmay 6y ago
For crying out loud, put down your phone and go play outside, after you read and up-vote my article, of course.
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by chrismmay 6y ago
No, actually it's like discussing how space exploration will cause the downfall of civilization from inside a spaceship bound for the moon.
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by chrismmay 6y ago
This headline does not come as a surprise to me, given my one interaction with Wirecard. About a year ago, I had a bad experience with Verizon FIOS so I cancelled my subscription with them. I was owed a refund and Verizon delivered my refu
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by chrismmay 6y ago
It's quite ironic that this article is being up-voted here on Hacker News when the author's thesis is that voting systems are toxic.

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