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by sine 8y ago
Ethereum and Bitcoin mining work like this: Take a freshly baked pie, and give half of it away for a suggested donation of $1 USD to the first 10 people who show up. Now split the last half of the pie into smaller chunks and slowly give out
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by sine 8y ago
By your logic if that were the case, Tether would need to be destroyed everytime the crypto-markets rise... Plus, Tether's offical website and documentation state that's not how Tether is intended, they claim it is always 1:1 back
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by sine 8y ago
Bitfinex hired Friedman LLP to audit them. Friedman only gave a report explicitly specifying "THIS IS NOT AN AUDIT" because Bitfinex wouldn't provide the documents and access beyond simple statements. Friedman LLP recently re
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by sine 8y ago
Monero changing its mining algorithm doesn't change how most of the supply was produced and given away nearly for free to the dev team and early users. The math behind it equates to existing capital wealth being used to generate the su
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by sine 8y ago
decentralized commodity This is a misconception about cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. Both are highly centeralized, in the hands of a tiny oligarchical ownership along with a small group of mining warehouses. https:&
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Uncovering the cartel behind Bitcoin Manipulation(medium.com)
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by sine 8y ago
For anyone who hasn't been following, the prevailing theory is that the largest Cryptocoin exchange "Bitfinex" also runs an altcoin called "Teather" which was marketed as being backed 1:1 by USD. So far they've
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by sine 8y ago
This is an execelent flowchart detailing the regulatory policy on spoofing on US stock markets: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXD3RlQVoAALYLa.jpg
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Laser attacks near China's first overseas military base(businessinsider.com)
1 points by sine 8y ago|0 comments
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by sine 8y ago
Why would anyone want to use a cryptocoin though a service like facebook? Venmo / ZuckBucks / Paypal / Patron all are much simpler and more efficent for payments. Plus you don't have to buy the cryptocoins from someone w
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Experiments into other ways: The great wall of money(medium.com)
1 points by sine 8y ago|0 comments
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The (dis)information mercenaries now controlling Trump’s databases(medium.com)
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by sine 9y ago
It's possible Facebook could be using an exclusive method to access hardware more directly, much like how Uber had access to restricted developer debugging tools which allowed them to record the screen even when the app was closed. ht
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Namecheap Undergoing Emergency Maintenance(status.namecheap.com)
1 points by sine 9y ago|0 comments
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Open Cobalt – FOSS platform for p2p virtual worlds(en.wikipedia.org)
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Polar Vortex breakdown: Icy Europe, balmy North Pole. The world upside down(phys.org)
5 points by sine 9y ago|0 comments
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Failed intercept at Dhahran caused by a software error in handling of timestamps(en.wikipedia.org)
205 points by sine 9y ago|86 comments