rothbardrand

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by rothbardrand 9y ago
Unfortunately, pointing out the fact that this sort of faux scaling will lead to centralization is never going to be popular among the tech illiterates at this site who believe Roger Ver over listening to people who actually work on the bit
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
LOL! I wasn't talking about guns, and no, guns are not safe, every year more and more guns are banned in this country. T he idea that guns are not being banned is just a lie that is told to pretend like not banning all of them outright
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
I'm not being sarcastic in the least. I'm being downvoted because this is a site where critical thinking is not tolerated and it's overrun with millennials who have never had to use their brains.
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
They delete content all the time... and they ban people all the time, without regard for whether they have done anything wrong. Of course, since they delete the content you can't see the record of their actions. I've seen dang ins
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
People are already leaving the country, and at an increasing rate. The rate of renouncements of US citizenship has been rising for the past 20 years but sharply under Obama. They have started making it HARDER to renounce, as some sort of
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
One of the great things about bitcoin is it gives libertarianism a business model... and it's right out of SEK3's New Libertarian Manifesto--which was written in the 1970s-- SEK game theorized out what would happen with the Soviet
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
I suspect money laundering is already there.... they don't care, its all selective prosecution anyway. The purpose of the laws is not to stop crimes, but to make so many things a crime that if you resist tyranny they can discredit yo
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
Yes, it is a terrible idea for terrorists. And currently, bitcoin is too hard to use for terrorists or most criminals. You have to be relatively sophisticated. Yah, you may have gotten your grandma a wallet, but that's not the same a
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
And freedom. Remember, freedom is scary. To the downvoters: Seriously it is. For example: Can you imagine what would happen if we allowed people to have bars? People are expected to DRIVE to a BAR and DRINK! Can you imagine what people w
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
Exactly, its' hugely popular in Venezuela and Zimbabwe and other places where government messes with peoples' money. But then, remember, Charles thinks that pepe is a nazi symbol! He's not exactly among the rational.
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
There are lots of reasons to be concerned about Tethers, formost of which is that they are centralized. But with the massive on boarding of new customers (coinbase releases customer stats regularly and are having record new accounts created
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
This is a great policy, all exchanges should adopt it. If you can only buy bitcoin and only miners can sell it, everyone will make a lot of money! I’m kidding, of course. BTW- it takes about ten days for a new account to buy bitcoin in Coin
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
This isn't bitcoin you're looking at, this is an attack on bitcoin.
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
This repo is the financial institutions and "CEOs" pushing for an arbitrary change over the objections of the engineers, and in many cases their very own CTOs, and the travesty of how terribly poorly it was written and non-tested
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
Remember at this time the block size has already been increased up to a maximum of 3.7mb physical blocks. This is a large part of why there's discussion about what 2X means-- as commonly people think that the bitcoin block size is onl
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
Interesting, this resonated with me. I'm a "conservative" from the view of modern liberals (strictly speaking I'm a classical liberal or libertarian- I support gay marriage, the end of war, the end of drug wars, the eli
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
The implied power structure here is so typical. Way too many startup “CEOs” want to sit on their ass watching TV and drinking beer (eg going to conferences and drinking beer) while their partner builds the product based on their incoherent
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
This is great advice. Any decent CTO will immediately be put off by this kind of interview for a “co-founder” and be spared working with someone who doesn’t know his circle of competence.
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
I don't think so... it slungshot around the sun, which implies that its in a very large sun oriented orbit. (eg: some random object passing bit for the first time would be likely only slightly disturbed by the suns gravity, not coming
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
I wonder if there is a reward for the return of the painting? One could buy it and turn it in for the reward, effectively reward arbitrage. In fact, I would expect the legit owners or insurance company to bid. Given the painting was stole
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
Saw an analysis awhile back that over %60 of Ethereum transactions are from a mixer. So artificial.
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
Remember “net neutrality” is 800 pages of regulations, most of which enable spying and internet censorship... but was sold as “net neutrality” to quell protest. Regulations are always sold as protecting consumers but rarely work out that wa
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
Startup Options are already broken-- no liquidity, terrible employee hostile terms (eg: 1 year cliff, losing 90 days after leaving unless you come up with $xx,xxx to exercise options for a stock that won'e be liquid for 5 or more years
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
He should get nothing until after all his victims are made whole— in bitcoin, not USD.
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
This is the attack vector that works on people who will never read Atlas Shrugged because they read a hit piece in Salon about Ayn Rand. This will keep them out of bitcoin, which I find kinda hilarious.
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
Most of the people on this site are hard left, and not very much into hacking... there are junior developers and wannabe CEOs with MBAs here. You're not going to find cypherpunks on hacker news, generally. So, anything that fits the h
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
The control of money is the way society is enslaved. He may not have a complex, but we are all being exploited.
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
Yes. The people who hate bitcoin -- despite all it does for them-- generally are hating it for political reasons. They may hate sound money, they may worship at the alter of neo-keynsianism and think inflation is necessary (how else will yo
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
You think we should be blocked from donating to wikileaks? You think venezuelans should be forced to use their local currency? You think Zimbabwe's people should go thru hyper inflation again? They are about to, and bitcoin is booming
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by rothbardrand 9y ago
You don't seem to realize that blocks can be up to 3.7mb for segwit transactions. This whole issue has never been about block size- that's the lie they tell to try and take control. It's all about governance and an attempt fo

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