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by onyb 6y ago
Fortunately, no one is forcing anyone to adopt Bitcoin, if the features are undesirable. > Deflationary currencies are dangerous. Inflation is a feature, not a bug. You may be right, but we can't stop a community from choosing somet
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by onyb 6y ago
PoS lacks fairness. To participate in PoS, you need an existing stash of coins, which is inaccessible for many individuals from countries where cryptocurrencies are outlawed. Not forgetting to mention that participation in consensus would i
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by onyb 6y ago
Once you understand Bitcoin, there's no way why you'd go back to the legacy system. It's not Bitcoiners getting freaking rich; it's them adopting a superior store of value that is being selected as the winner in a free m
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How changing 1 character in an algorithm accidentally made it 18% faster(twitter.com)
25 points by onyb 6y ago|0 comments
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by onyb 6y ago
Microstrategy's $425M buy order was brokered by Coinbase, and it didn't shoot up the price. Anyway, exchanges will usually deny placing such large orders. Institutions use OTC desks instead, and there are plenty of them these days
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by onyb 6y ago
> Chase is pretty good ... I'm sure Chase provides great services, but isn't it like a first-world bank? They have high minimum-balance requirements and fees in most countries. > Maybe you just need a new bank? I do, and tha
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by onyb 6y ago
In other news, Coinbase filed for an IPO. Of course you can get your money. It's near-instant with at least the popular exchanges.
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by onyb 6y ago
To be honest, I'm just tired with my bank. All they care about is opening new accounts, and selling financial products to people who don't need them. They custody your money, but it's impossible to reach them when you need th
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by onyb 6y ago
Learn web3.js and build dapps. You already have most of the requisite skills under your belt.
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by onyb 6y ago
Bitcoin provided the world a way to transfer value over the internet, that's censorship resistant and completely trustless. If that's not disruptive, I don't know what is. GPT-3 is smart enough to understand that.
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by onyb 6y ago
That moment when you submit a very long comment on GitHub, and realise that it is down. :(
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by onyb 6y ago
Soon to be used as a startup name generator.
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by onyb 7y ago
At my previous job, in a legal-tech company, we used Woleet to build a copyright protection product for intellectual property. However, I believe IPFS [1] is a superior solution for proof-of-existence, compared to timestamping on Bitcoin. W
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by onyb 7y ago
It's also useful to point out that Kashmir was neither a part of India nor Pakistan after independence from the British in 1947. It was only after Pakistan launched an operation to capture Kashmir, that the then ruler of Kashmir signed
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by onyb 8y ago
Meanwhile in Paris, you might be having a double masters in International Law, but still be earning 25% less than an entry-level Software Developer with just a Bachelor's degree. In most organisations, simply sort the employees in incr
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by onyb 8y ago
> It was less than 500 square feet and had none of the above amenities [...] 500 square feet is already a luxury for most people living in Paris.
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by onyb 9y ago
Even though this is a toy blockchain, it is essential to provide a Blockchain.verify() method to check the integrity of the blocks.
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Show HN: An ORM for Python objects, inspired by Django(github.com)
13 points by onyb 9y ago|1 comments
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by onyb 9y ago
This seems to be a simple wrapper around subprocess, but I'm afraid it is not changing things dramatically. Overall, I don't agree that Sultan's syntax is any more Pythonic than subprocess itself. +1 for https://su
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by onyb 9y ago
Can I use the Google sheet to find partners for my open source project (no monetary benefit)?