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hfsp
6y ago
The rules of btc will not change and become a multiple-tier system because of your feelings. Sorry. I provided evidence (from NY fed) to your burden of proof request. All one can ask is to have the same rules for everyone. Equal access. N
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6y ago
>Those aren't fuels - those are chemicals found in crude oil. Methane is an organic fuel. Coal is an organic fuel. >You don't burn crude oil in power plants. Diesel is how small island nations in the Carribean or Hawaii get
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6y ago
This is a smug take. Who do you think gets the benefit of the freshly printed fiat? In the central bank cantiollionaire system, there are three classes of citizens: 1) jamie dimons, warren buffets and the like who get access to practically
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hfsp
6y ago
Btc is what it it is because it is NOT centralized. pos = centralization risk. pos = shitcoin. If you want to read in depth: https://voskuil.org/cryptoeconomics/cryptoeconomics.pdf .
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6y ago
This is either an uninformed or misleading take. It isn't necessarily "Africa" or "Americas". The heuristic is "is my local fiat shitcoin stealing my purchasing power". Counter to your claim and easily pro
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hfsp
6y ago
BCH is trending to 0 in BTC. How does this solve Venezuelans or Lebanese store of value problem? https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/BCHBTC/
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6y ago
Let's follow the money. Said "scientific study" is funded by Wellcome. An arm of WHO, unelected crisis manufacturer supreme. On wellcome's site: "Reducing meat intake, particularly in the USA where meat consumption
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6y ago
There's two underlying issues: 1) Failure of winterization across both wind and organic power sources 2) Unreliable nature of wind
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6y ago
>Texas supposedly has about 30 GW of wind power capacity >In reality solar and wind must be coupled with storage in order to act as reliable baseload generation. The problem is there is no grid scale storage, and neither ERCOT nor any
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6y ago
TheIntercept has fallen mightily from breaking the story on Snowden to filling political hit pieces. Pretty telling their own founder was ousted last year. Agreed on the ideological slants. People were put in harms way.
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6y ago
>Less polluting Are you familiar with the rare earth metal mines, solar, or wind plants in China? >It should be prioritized over the private gains of fossil fuel executives/employees/lobbyists. Stop playing politics with my
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6y ago
Have sympathy for yourself. Please note organic fuels: -provide parts for your computer, smart phone, router -power your home, and office so you can use above -keep you cool in the summer and warm in the winter -transport you on the ground
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6y ago
There is a lot of conflation in btc threads between store of value, medium of exchange, and unit of account. You are referring to unit of account. https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/bitcoin-as-a-store-of-...
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6y ago
>Bitcoin network only processes a small fraction of the number of transactions per day that Visa processes Btc is not replacing visa. Btc is replacing central banks. The appropriate comparison here is what is the energy cost of the banki
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6y ago
>Or maybe it comes from people who have read an Econo101 textbook and who have spent a lot of time trying to explain a crowd of Bitcoin enthusiasts why their reasoning is wrong The market decides. Not an economics "expert", nor
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6y ago
>There’s a bizarre religiousity and post hoc rationalizations for some of the weirdest decisions in its design, and mistaking speculative mania and nominal price for success This is a feature, not a bug. It is very difficult to change th
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6y ago
The market has spoken: https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NANOBTC/ .
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6y ago
"The design of eCNY borrows only a few minor technical elements from Bitcoin and does not use the so-called blockchain technology, a ledgerlike system, which most cryptocurrencies rely on, officials from the People’s Bank of China have
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6y ago
Enjoy your religion.
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"Clean" energy is a fallacy, and a greens marketing ploy. Solar, wind, batteries all have environmental costs, as do all other sources of energy & energy storage. Unfortunately, hit pieces like the OP's share from the Gua
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6y ago
Thanks for sharing this info. One critical detail is missing. Context. Take the US case. 23.2 GW "capacity". Over what period of time? A second? A minute? An hour? A day? A month? A year? Let's take a case study of California
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6y ago
How do you get to we should base our system on the failed Germany model? Do you want to pay ~triple the avg US price for electricity? What do you think happens to the not small segment of the population struggling to make ends meet? The Ger
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6y ago
There is no grid scale storage in the US.
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>even when backed by battery storage We have seconds of grid battery storage in the US. >Solar and wind are the cheapest electrical generation technologies What do you think happens 90% of the time when solar & wind are not availa
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There are enormous environmental and human rare earth mining costs to assumedly "clean" and "green" electric cars, and solar panels. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-.
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6y ago
Sorry to challenge your fossil fuels bad take. The grid, and thus electric cars run on fossil fuel. Contrary to your belief, expensive unereliables such as solar, and wind cannot run the grid by definition. Solar and wind are great, when th
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6y ago
Choose your fighter wisely: [ ] ELECTRIC CAR GOOD [ ] ELECTRICITY BAD
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6y ago
You are asking "why btc". You have read Lyn's post on QE - great! Here's how I view it, and I believe Saylor as well: cash loses double digit % purchasing power annually for the things you want to buy and hold. You can h
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6y ago
VCs do not believe in btc. If you hate VCs, buy btc.
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6y ago
Apple P/E is around 30, not 3. You would do well to take the time to understand why MSTR did what they did. Hint: https://www.lynalden.com/money-printing/ .
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