madcat123

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   Can the Bitcoin market absorb hundreds of millions in institutional capital?(pando.com)

   2 points by madcat123 12y ago|1 comments
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   by madcat123 13y ago

   Sure, except that tippers (users) are not likely to be in position to judge the quality of a commit, nor really want to wade through hundreds of commits to decide which ones might be worth spending money on, and for the most part, just want
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   by madcat123 13y ago

   Exactly true. But even government-issued currencies are not suitable stores of value over longer time-periods due to their inflationary nature; that's why we have retirement funds etc, the game being trying to out-do inflation. Bitcoin
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   by madcat123 13y ago

   It's great that the author is successful in his choice of investments, but I think the post makes the whole thing look much less risky than it is. Real estate prices only go up, right? WRONG [1]. And if you're leveraged 1:10, when
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   by madcat123 13y ago

   It seems to me it's time email followed the file-sharing industry and moved to a distributed, peer-to-peer system. End-to-end encryption and no servers to shut down... There's a couple of research papers on the topic: http:/
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   by madcat123 14y ago

   If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,