martindale

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by martindale 1y ago
PayPal deleted my account in 2017 for having a relationship with Bitcoin-associated banks. Fuck you, that was war.
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by martindale 1y ago
Ah yes, the fight you phase.
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by martindale 1y ago
Why stop using them now? If they are the correct mark, use them.
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by martindale 1y ago
Poelstra probably has a lot to say on the subject — but I think the natural order is the simpler and more "divine" variant.
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by martindale 1y ago
This sounds so exploitable I almost want to enter the job market again.
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by martindale 2y ago
Astroturf on HN. Never thought I'd see the day.
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by martindale 3y ago
Just start using HTTP 402 and JSON payloads. We can just converge on whatever ends up common; for me, there is already a monetary standard for the Internet. I participated in these meetings for some time, during the rise (and rise) of Bitc
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by martindale 3y ago
Earlier versions of Caddy were just a single binary that accepted signals to reload; the newer versions add a bunch of process management stuff that just got in the way of our existing tooling (...why remove the signals? ugh!) so we just s
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by martindale 3y ago
I wasted many hours in my pre-teen years converting documents from Works to Word and back again. Made me the town wizard, they did.
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by martindale 4y ago
It's mostly Bitcoin, actually.
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by martindale 4y ago
When creating a startup, you have to solve a problem for your users. When creating a token, you now have two problems — solving your users' problem, _and_ launching a new currency.
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by martindale 5y ago
Agree completely. I'm practically one new-tab-opened-without-me-asking away from forking a browser just to remove this behavior.
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by martindale 5y ago
Can you explain what about "that sort of thing" is so repulsive to you, perchance?
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Only the Strong Survive(uncerto.com)
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by martindale 5y ago
First thing that came to mind as well.
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by martindale 5y ago
Stablecoins reinforce dependence on the State, as they further entrench the fiat system that Bitcoin was meant to replace. It seems to me that this, and the rest of the "Decentralized Finance" movement is not intending to replace
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by martindale 5y ago
Build a reputation network.
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by martindale 5y ago
If your conviction is so strong, why proxy your short instead of just shorting the asset itself? I look forward to your prompt report in December...
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by martindale 5y ago
I go back to it twice yearly
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by martindale 5y ago
Sure, and become permanently controlled by the founders, who control 60% of the outstanding supply. Proof of Stake enables any party who at any point controls more than ⅓ of funds to rewrite the chain from that point forward, so this is an
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by martindale 5y ago
This difference is that in PoS, if anyone ever holds more than ⅓ of the total supply (as is the case with Ethereum's founders currently holding 65% of the overall issuance, for example), they can indefinitely control the chain through
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by martindale 6y ago
We're building this, but on Bitcoin ("Plasma but as a framework for dapps" [with a focus on developer experience]) [0]. There's already robust infrastructure for L2 contracts in Bitcoin-land, and we've already heav
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by martindale 6y ago
Proof of Stake not only replicates the same dynamics that Bitcoin was designed to eliminate (more wealth -> more power in system) but also can only be made secure against a maximum of ⅓ byzantine actors, compared to Proof of Work's
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by martindale 6y ago
Property rights are intrinsic to our natural self-sovereignty (and agency). The State cannot grant rights.
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by martindale 6y ago
It only provides this property when you've secured your keys, preferably in an offline wallet. These were hot wallet funds, so they're vulnerable to both physical and virtual seizure.
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by martindale 6y ago
Has there been any progress on advancing BEP-46 (mutable torrents) [0] along the standards track? I didn't see any mention of it in this announcement, despite my hopes of seeing it as a flagship feature. [0]: http://www.bit
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by martindale 6y ago
For me, finding solutions for problems with older versions of software happens on Stack Overflow more often than anywhere else. Thanks for all your work!
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by martindale 6y ago
Why do I need to log in to my display device?
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by martindale 6y ago
Much closer to what I need than previous contenders! Now, if only it were open source (compile on your own) and was embeddable (as a web component?) for easy integration into other platforms...
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by martindale 6y ago
It's not a new idea [0], but I admit that I was excited about this referring to digital communities. Nonetheless, it's a cool way of separating one's self from the Government monopoly on money. [0]: https://en.wik

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