ehrtt

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by ehrtt 7y ago
The Transferwise borderless account is pretty good, at least I much prefer it to Revolut - since SEPA transfers happen same day, the app is better and the debit card is free.
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by ehrtt 7y ago
And FBcoin won't make it any easier, capital controls in India and China won't just go away (not that FB is even allowed in China). Centralized entities will be regulated to maintain the status quo.
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by ehrtt 7y ago
He chose to go to Ecuador, once the US plans became obvious to them.
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by ehrtt 7y ago
12" MacBook hasn't been updated in 2 years.
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What's Driving the Cryptocurrency Phenomenon?(iterative.capital)
2 points by ehrtt 7y ago|0 comments
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by ehrtt 7y ago
Not true. You can trade USDT for USD on Kraken.
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by ehrtt 7y ago
> He may have committed some heinous crimes outside of the actual hacking/leaking Pretty serious throwaway comment without stating what "heinous crimes" were apparently committed..
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by ehrtt 7y ago
It's not.
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by ehrtt 8y ago
"The result is consistent with, although at the upper end of,SM expectations" ( https://cds.cern.ch/record/2668357/files/LHCb-PAPER-2019-006... )
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by ehrtt 8y ago
Brave stole a lot of bitcoin from people by converting it into their useless/worthless BAT.
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by ehrtt 8y ago
You're going to love Japan.
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by ehrtt 8y ago
Such an efficient way to boost flagging iphone revenues. Get other people to do the work and rent seek through your walled garden.
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by ehrtt 8y ago
I think you missed the onion routing part. The route is determined by the sender, forwarding nodes only know who they received from and who to forward to, as with TOR.
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by ehrtt 8y ago
Yeah, but there are two sides to that (voluntary) transaction. The person bidding for labor and the person offering their labor. If the buyer and seller can't agree then the transaction doesn't take place. The value of the labor i
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by ehrtt 8y ago
> You're worth what the market is willing to offer you, not what you think you are worth. This is an absurd statement, the market is not a god. It does not have a value system.
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by ehrtt 8y ago
What you're talking about is investing+speculating, not saving. By the same logic investing in the S&P500 over the 1999-2009 decade would have been worse than cash. You save money, you invest/speculate to earn a return -- whic
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by ehrtt 8y ago
If no one has even heard of them, how could their prices possibly matter to anyone.
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by ehrtt 8y ago
What will Coinbase do if there is a contentious hard-fork of the Ethereum chain and different USDC supporting exchanges decide to follow different forks?
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by ehrtt 8y ago
Lots of people (millions) share the same wallets (technically addresses), as they hold coins on exchanges. The richest bitcoin addresses are the cold storage for the exchanges. https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitco
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by ehrtt 8y ago
> Gini coefficient of 1.0 means that a single person controls 100% of a country’s income/wealth, North Korea scores 0.86, the rather unequal United States scores 0.41 and bitcoin scores an astonishing 0.88. This was a bizarre secti
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by ehrtt 8y ago
It is the case for the 13-inch ones.
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by ehrtt 8y ago
The RAM is soldered on.
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by ehrtt 8y ago
There were a series of interviews I listened to a while back that form a nice primer for understanding the eurodollar system: https://www.macrovoices.com/edu
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by ehrtt 8y ago
Let me ask you this hypothetical question instead: What if we have a "brain encryption" technology that allows encrypting your brain so that brain scanners, thought detecting methods or emotion detectors cannot see through it? Wou
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by ehrtt 8y ago
Resting on a massive assumption.. so really the opposite of solid math.
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by ehrtt 8y ago
..because in this thought experiment it's guaranteed to be deflationary...
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by ehrtt 8y ago
So not to get completely crazy here but about 5 years ago I settled on the Leuchtturm1917 medium, dot grid, softcover notebook + the Pilot Better Retractable ballpoint pen (black, 30000). It's a nice place to be if you want to consider
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by ehrtt 8y ago
Security against double spends.
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by ehrtt 8y ago
Hmm, but also [inserts mindless platitude]
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by ehrtt 8y ago
Not worth it to you . Just like your trip to Thailand is a waste of finite resources as far as I'm concerned. Who gets to decide, these things are subjective. That's why we use markets to allocate resources.

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