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by traceddd 3y ago
I believe they believe they are helping people and the work is valuable at some level, if they are successful, yes. At the very least they aren't intrinsically opposed to the field.
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by traceddd 3y ago
I assume you’re aware, but for clarity: it’s not possible to sic the bitcoin network on anything, even cracking sha256, which it uses internally, due to hard-coded ASICs that incorporate specific quirks of the proof-of-work.
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by traceddd 3y ago
Poor idea to found a startup in a field you don’t believe in. Waste of time from the start.
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by traceddd 3y ago
They’re passing up an interesting opportunity to compete.
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by traceddd 4y ago
Why even bother describing the joke if the punchline is too crass for publication? Pick another joke.
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by traceddd 5y ago
Every sale has a customer.
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by traceddd 5y ago
Depends greatly on the conditions of the facility they were mining in. Heat kills these units. A professional set-up (not to be confused with a large one) will have much more mild impact on the units than a building with poor thermal consid
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by traceddd 5y ago
Hard to say the number because it is difficult (but sometimes not impossible) to deduce the device from on chain data. ASICs do exist but they have not obsoleted GPUs like has happened on other projects (such as Bitcoin.) FPGAs were never b
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by traceddd 5y ago
If that’s what you took away from my post, I must have done a poor job with it. Firstly emergent consensus is a big part of decentralized systems. Core providers convening on a decision and supporting it is perfectly healthy. That’s quite d
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by traceddd 5y ago
Yes except that some users will be convinced by Minerchain marketing and sell their Stakingchain eth due to those beliefs.
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by traceddd 5y ago
People will describe technical mechanisms, but they are all pretty irrelevant since a miner rebellion would easily modify the software. The real mechanism is that all the major players can’t accept two forks and maintain sanity. For example
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by traceddd 5y ago
Fees are based on resource usage. In Bitcoin this is usually the total data size of inputs and outputs that are used to make the sum. This is where the issue of dust arises, when an address holds a mass quantity of low value inputs, but com
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by traceddd 5y ago
I’m not implying it’s a self enrichment scheme, just a really poor choice. Regardless of who developed it.
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by traceddd 5y ago
I find it hilarious that instead of using a battle tested and widely known cryptocurrency that relies on actual cryptographic techniques, like Monero or Zcash, they’ve embraced a crypto that basically no one has heard about, no one was usin
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by traceddd 5y ago
In my opinion, given the application is cryptocurrency, reimplementations are pretty valuable. It’s important to avoid systemic failure due to a large percentage of nodes having the same exploit or bug. A fully featured reimplementation lik
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by traceddd 5y ago
Seems petty. Of course it’s easier to make changes when you just launched and there are less parties and more centralization at a leadership level. 8 months doesn’t really seem like something worthy to brag over.
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by traceddd 5y ago
I agree it’s shortages and not really miners to primarily blame for the GPU issues… but the type of mining you are doing is not the same as professional miners. There is tons of demand.
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by traceddd 5y ago
Personally I went through a lot of the same considerations and the indecision and flip flopping got quite tiring. Eventually I just simplified things. Living in a property you own gives so much more for your money compared to what one could
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by traceddd 5y ago
A centrally controlled emission is a feature that has significant downsides. Whether we want this feature is the point of discussion... Societies with economies existed before fiat and this centrally controlled emission seems to be quite sh
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by traceddd 6y ago
I don’t think delivery choices really have anything to do with someone’s intelligence. Some of the most intelligent people I know have horrible diets, some to the point of nearly refusing to eat anything but a few select dishes, others just
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by traceddd 6y ago
and technically, it’s not deflation, it’s a decrease in emission. Deflation is the expected result, but not necessarily guaranteed.
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by traceddd 6y ago
It says more about bcash than bitcoin that it’s supporters feel the need to push a (false) narrative anywhere they can.
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by traceddd 6y ago
If this were true, why would China break up Jack Ma, weakening fintech presence for the immediate future?
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by traceddd 6y ago
It would be more useful to simply collect and publicize the anonymous report statistics rather than contact the recruiter. That way applicants can know whether it’s worth spending a lot of time on, and recruiters have a metric to move if th
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by traceddd 6y ago
I agree the Oxford/AZ vaccine seems a bit rushed and promoted. It also seems to be less novel than the mRNA vaccines, but I’m no expert. Can someone confirm the Oxford/AZ vaccine is using well established techniques?
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by traceddd 6y ago
It’s not illegal, criminally, to break terms and conditions. At least in the US. You may have some impact on your career and be judged by your peers or perhaps brought to civil court for damages, but if done right it’s totally legal to sell
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by traceddd 6y ago
I thought the 5G conspiracy people thought it was causing COVID-19 and/or cancer. Not that it was used for spying. In any case I’d assume an anti-5G extremist would attack 5G infra directly, if they were going to go there.
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by traceddd 6y ago
I’m talking more about the case in which you can search for an hour and check every result and it’s not anywhere anymore. But yes it’s often just ahead of the real result too.
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by traceddd 6y ago
I’m sure you’re aware of the concept of “set and setting.” The environment can greatly influence the character and content of a psychedelic experience. Mind control can be as simple as attaching trauma to a particular ideology, or invoking
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by traceddd 6y ago
The plan was always iterative lockdowns, followed by loosening of restrictions, as the virus is much more deadly when hospitals are overwhelmed. The earliest studies and models clearly recommend this as widespread natural immunity is a guar

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