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It looks like metamask swap is another service built on top of other exchanges that aggregates data: https://metamask.io/swaps
> A service fee of 0.875% is automatically factored into each quote, which supports ongoing development to make MetaMask even better.
This is the true beauty of decentralization, instead of getting fucked over by three parties when paying with credit card (issuer, acquirer, network) you can get fucked over by N anonymous parties!
Pollution is not possible because the invisible hand of the free market will guide consumers to buy less of the polluting company’s product, thus putting it out of business. Unregulated free markets cannot have externalities because the risks of losing business are prices into the market. It’s true![0]
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191145
The BTC/BCH prince ratio steadily dropped from ~0.15 in December to ~0.10 ten days ago. But then surged back and is now ~0.15 again.
Naturally, BTC Corporation is now trying to recover their former market preference levels by improving the quality of their product, cutting prices, improving customer support, and educating customers, as any respectable and ethical company would do. That is the behavior that one expects from prominent players in the Bitcoin econosphere.
As far as I can the the pic is parody but then of course some enterprising individual went and published an ebook with a very similar cover and title
https://www.amazon.com/Dogecoin-Standard-Case-Against-Currencies-ebook/dp/B091SP6ZTR
The weighted average of all Tethers is calculated at $0.97 on CMC, but there are only two exchanges that offer direct conversion of USD to USDT (Bittrex and Kraken), and both of those are trading Tethers at $0.947 and $0.957 respectively.
For those who are interested in the details of the case and would like to see a take different from the typical "Free Ross" one, I recommend checking out American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road.
Apparently he's not only not going to defend his 'degrees' - the guy's LinkedIn profile has now been scrubbed of all claims to degrees! Interesting. Ooop: And as I was writing it it seems to have been hidden completely now!
Also interesting that he's claiming to currently be getting a second PhD while the Wired article cites him as having a 'couple of PhDs'. At the same time ~~he's still~~ had got a list of "publications" on the profile, none of which were in peer-reviewed journals. Which as I said before, is a requirement for a PhD in STEM fields at every real university I've heard of. Not that he went to a real university apparently but some new, for-profit one.
Also: Anyone who actually had a PhD (and I know a few) wouldn't be spending a lot of time talking about IT certifications. That's like, what, a one-week course? It's completely absurd to think that anyone who'd actually spent the years of full time study it takes to get a PhD would defend his academic credentials not by providing a copy of his thesis and link to his papers, supervisor, research group etc, but by defending the certs he got from 6 day courses (or whatever). Kinda makes you strongly suspect the certs are real but the dissertations aren't. Total con man.
Amusingly, the top response is Ryan arguing with a guy named 'Jedberg' who you might recognize from when he was the first (maybe 2nd?) employee hired by Reddit where he responsible for much of the initial engineering / scaling and then he managed all of Reddit's engineering.. He later left to be a reliability architect / cloud architect at Netflix -- So you can assume he knows a thing or two about building complex distributed systems.
Needless to say, but Jeremy (Jedberg) disagrees with Ryan's idea..
Holy shit man, I loaded your site on a crappy internet connection and it nearly nuked my computer..
Your /shop/ page has 18mb of pictures on it...
If you think removing bitcoin as a payment option increased customer revenue, check out what happens when you reduce your load times by 90%.
Because of all the far right dogma that in embodies - of course, in reality when “big gubbmint” is sidelined it tends to create a haven for criminals and con-men, which is what makes the whole thing so endlessly amusing.
David Golumbia has a good and short book on this.
Bitcoin price is crashing down, down, down.
The Fear and Greed index is doing things I have never seen before (not following it's normal pattern for PUMP N DUMP, it is now all fear and DUMP. https://alternative.me/crypto/
But, the *REALLY* funny part is that the market cap for Tether an*d I[D]IO*TA are now less than $19,000 US apart.
Tether is about to become a TOP 10 cryptocurrency. I am LMFAO already !!!
Ohhh, and, and the even funnier part is that people are converting their Bitcoin into Tether because they think it is a "safe harbor" while the price is crashing.
Get the popcorn ready guys and gals, I think lots of comedy GODL is to come.
You should read actual court reports and not re-re-re-retellings from slightly biased sources.
You can even find his crime journal from his laptop as an exhibit presented at the trial. Parts about paying for murders were included in the trial with intent to show that he was deeply involved in running the site, as a part of "continuing criminal enterprise" charge.
He only raised one objection to those, guess which:
It's made up whole cloth
It's planted/left over from The Real DPR
It will unnecessarily "color" the jury
PS: Here, found through Wired. Actual fragments from that journal:
>04/01/2013
> got word that blackmailer was excuted
> created file upload script
>started to fix problem with bond refunds over 3 months old
...
>04/08/2013
> sent payment to angels for hit on tony76 and his 3 associates
> began setting up hecho as standby
> very high load (300/16), took site offline and refactored main and category pages to be more efficient
Quite businesslike.
> So is GBTC actually having an effect on price?
lol
> Also, how poorly are the Winkies doing with their exchange? Is it still bottom tier?
It's actually continually getting worse as time goes on. It hasn't grown at all since inception. It's ranked #18th in the butt ecosystem.
> What's the current rise stemming from?
It's probably a combination of the MMM ponzi scheme, Chinese Willy Bot, and the perceived ending of a bear market. Also every industry pumper is already coming out of the woodwork to pump the price for the halving which is still 7 months away. But large publications like Business Insider and Reuters already have bitcoin shills writing articles regarding the future doubling of price due to decreased demands.
> currency
Except Ethereum is not a currency. Straight from the horse's mouth, Ethereum is a
> decentralized platform for applications that run exactly as programmed without any chance of fraud, censorship or third-party interference.
Except post fork ETH is a
> ~~decentralized~~ platform for applications ~~that run exactly as programmed without any chance of fraud, censorship or third-party interference~~.
So basically, post-fork Ethereum is a platform for applications to run on. Kind of like AWS Lambda only orders of magnitude slower, more expensive, and less scalable coupled with massive ecological damage.
The response to this is hilarious
>Brave is not, as the NAA asserts, “replac[ing] publishers' ads on the publishers' own websites and mobile applications with Brave's own advertising.”
Except that this is what they're looking to do, the infographics in the same article say the same thing, just with more buzzwords.
>Brave is not trying to steal the “profits” from publishers as the NAA asserts.
So after their offer to share revenue from replaced ads is categorically denied by most prominent publishers, what would keeping profits by injected ads into webpages they don't own count as? I say stealing.
So basically $10 more than a real GTX 1060 with video output and 3 year warranty? Looks like a good deal to me. No warranty and no video output for $10 more.
edit: unless you want dual fans, then they are around $240. so $30 more for video output and warranty.
/r/buttcoin is getting more ~~mainstream~~ neckbeard attention!
Edit: Looks like reddit's executive chairman Alexis Ohanian has joined the conversation.
All they have to do is generate new keys on a new server. This really only helps people that have been infected with older versions. It's happened a couple times already
Hey guys, Nick here from Changetip! As our supply of VC slowly runs out, we've taken desperate measures to keep up our steady supply of 25-NBOMe, bath salts, and mid-range prostitutes up to par. Have you ever seen a man come down off bath salts? Let me tell you, it's not a pretty picture and we here at Changetip are looking to avoid that scenario at all costs. Do to decreasing demand we are slowing seizing customer funds and I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. However, rest assured no matter how desperate we as a company get, we will never sell your personal information. At best we will get hacked and your info will end up for sale on Silk Road 67.
So Kraken is blaming the issues on CloudFlare downgrading them from the paid business account to the free account.
By their own tweets, the restrictions that were imposed on them are SNI (SNI is accepted by 97% of browsers) and a new certificate which was TLS1.1 or greater (which they say is an issue with WinXP)
Meanwhile the USERS are complaining about slow loading pages, broken JavaScript, and internal server errors (5xx). It seems like the real issues are completely unrelated?
Actually, what are his qualifications? He makes all kinds of claims but doesn't even have a CV online as far as I can tell. His LinkedIn doesn't give us a lot to go on either.
EDIT: Here it is. They actually sent it to the court. Still not telling me a whole lot. No apparent hard experience with crypto beforehand and only started to get involved with Buttcoin in 2011.
> there's a lot of irrational hatred towards crypto here
Do you always begin conversations with groups of strangers by insulting their intelligence?
https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034
There's an article about them here. I don't think it's a beeeeeeeconneeeek level scam, but it seems like they're putting crowdfunders' money into assets which aren't necessarily as good as they claim, so investors seem likely to do worse than they might expect.
Most of Scrooge McDuck's net worth isn't in that bin. Because of course the cartoon duck is smarter than most butters.
I just like that someone pointed out it's legitimately mathematically impossible to ever remove all donations in your (project's) name from this scammy third party:
> As someone else has already pointed out, they don't even have to pretend to get hacked to get to keep contributors' money. The model of dispensing 1% of balance per commit guarantees that it's impossible to get all of a project's contributions back out again.
oh my god dude it gets so much better
>They are both excited to be one of the first people in their home region of Slovakia to own a bitcoin, but also to be one of the first married couples with a multi-sig bitcoin wallet.
yeah im sure theyre so excited about that while they are on their honeymoon
>Thanks goes to Armory team for doing a great job with their software. The documentation[1] on creating and managing a multi-sig lockbox is very helpful and it just works perfectly!
Now go check out the linked instructions manual for the lockboxes. Now picture the look on the newlyweds' faces when they visit that page for the first time.
At least the istallation on Android is still as rock-secure as it ever was.
(And yes, that installs a runtime where scripts can run unchecked from the SD card, totally unchecked, having ability to read or delete anything, just because of a shitty Bitcoin app. Safety first!)
So... a State finally embraces bitcoin? Isn't this what butters always wanted?
The entire article is well worth a read, by the way, even if you have to register (it doesn't require e-mail validation so just use mailinator or such)
> Incompetency. Watching these "technologies" develop has been like watching the first organism crawling out of primordial oceans all over again. In terms of rediscovering the past errors of technology and economic behaviour.
Oh boy you would enjoy part of /u/dgerard's book Attack of the 50 foot blockchain where he dives into the wonderful world of blockchain-based incompetency. To wit, my favorite two examples:
> * Bitomat, then the third-largest exchange, were keeping the whole site's wallet file on an Amazon Web Services EC2 server in the cloud that didn't have separate backups and was set to "ephemeral," i.e., it would disappear if you restarted it. Guess what happened in July 2011? Whoops
> ...
> * AllCrypt ran their exchange off a MySQL database ... and were running WordPress on the same database, and their WordPress got hacked such as to allow access to the exchange data. The same thing happened to Bitcoin lending startup Loanbase.
The book: https://www.amazon.com/Attack-50-Foot-Blockchain-Contracts-ebook/dp/B073CPP581
>I am extremely glad that most comments here see the inherent craziness of this idea. I am a hardware designer who participated heavily in mining since Jan 2011, and gave up completely on Bitcoin in summer of 2014. The big problem that Balaji is completely ignoring is that SHA256 cores implemented in silicon have extraordinarily high power consumption relative to their size (mm2). This is due to the incredibly high signal switch rate inherent to implementing avalanche-style ciphers [1] in hardware. Perversely, most modern semiconductor processes optimize for static (leakage) power, since modern silicon designs are more vulnerable to this than to dynamic power. No rational semiconductor maker will want to include this IP on chip, because it will drastically complicate the power distribution metal layers. Additionally, it will require more expensive packaging, since you will need many more power and ground pins to source/sink the required current. I know this first hand after building a mining ASIC myself. I would venture a guess that most SoC chips would cost significantly more due to the extra engineering time and packaging cost needed to include this IP.
>This entire concept is a non-starter for me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9566091
http://research.neustar.biz/2012/02/02/choosing-a-good-hash-function-part-3/
Someone did the math on this. An Iphone 5 mining bitcoin, designed to only burn 10% of the battery's life, would generate 3 cents worth of bitcoin per year. If you allow it to burn 50% of your battery, you get 15 cents per year. (Of course, it will lose money, as it burns far more than 15 cents of electricity per year to do the mining)
Of what use would that be? You have a phone that produces maybe a penny's worth of bitcoin per month, but you can't even do a bitcoin transaction that small, since the minimum fee is 3 cents or so.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9566091 (from the comments section)
"An iPhone 5 battery is about 5 watt hours, ten percent of this is 0.5 watt hour.
The most efficient mining chip I could find information about is the BM1384, which consumes 2.058W at the lowest power bracket.
We would exhaust our 10% allotment in 15 minutes.
In those fifteen minutes our speed would be 8.25 gigahash per second, which would produce 0.000003542 BTC per day.
Our total income for 15 minutes of mining would be 0.00000003689583 BTC.
At $237.7/BTC our 10% iPhone 5 battery life has been exchanged for $0.000008770 USD.
Assuming 0.17 USD power cost in the United States, the power cost would be 0.000085 USD".
This is a recurring theme for anyone not jumping on the bitcoin bandwagon, I see.
And that guy's posts... good lord. He essentially says the great thing about bitcoin is he can go to a pub and not have to worry about a minimum debit card fee of like $5.
When the fuck is the last time anyone went to a bar and spent less than $5, and/or couldn't be bothered to have a little bit of cash on them? If this is the last remaining sales pitch they have, it's not looking good.
Decentralized Youtube already exists anyway.
And they are not using it. As if they actually prefer centralized platforms and don´t actually give a shit about decentralization and are only in for the (youtube) money
I found the "Satoshi" reading here, among another zillion name readings.
I am not sure, but the Japanese name-writing tradition may include omitting suffixes, as well as using non-standard kanji readings. (Appending hiragana inflection suffixes to kanji is a strictly Japanese and relatively modern thing; I believe that in ancient times they wrote just the kanji, Chinese style, and had to guess the inflections. The writing of names is supposed to borrow from ancient writings, I guess; just as many Christian names in the West have Hebrew etymologies, rather than Indo-European.)
> So how do I get the internet to give me money?
You need to have a whitepaper and a nice looking website. In case you are not experienced in whitepapery there are plenty of experts available for hire at competitive rates. Once you have both in order, spam it everywhere on social media and watch it rain.
I'll just go with my newest reasons to dislike the corn.
The white-paper says it's cash in the <em>title</em>, but the current euphoria is it's not cash at all, it's magic internet dust. While not a new thought from the Butters camp, it never ceases to be hilarious.
In all this time Bitscorn doesn't even know what Bitscorn is, other than a way for people to LARP being market speculators in a completely manipulated market. The corn itself is still a problem seeking another problem that computer scientists solved in the 60's and 70's.
Bitscorn has been outpaced by many, many technologies in the almost decade it's been around. A revolutionary idea that has been stagnant for years is not so much a revolution as a fad.
Anyway, today I'll share a Google Sheets doc with all of you and turn all the heaters on, the oven, and start a fire in my house and feel like a corn miner.
> I make that singlehandedly in a normal month.
In private federal reserve fiat? If so, it is pretty worthless my man. Falsely elected politicians print new bills in truckloads every day in order to steal your wealth and fund their wars, "public" roads, and gold plated drinking fountains for homeless people.
You need a secure way to store your hard earned wealth so the illegal government cannot steal it from you. Have you looked into Bitcoin per chance? It is a secure, anonymous way to instantly store your wealth with no transaction fees.
Here, read this brochure and if you like what you see, buy a few and hold them. The value of Bitcoin done nothing but go up on average since it was created.
>The owner of the targeted nightclub confirmed he has not met any of the demands. The lawyer representing the three coffeeshops confirmed they have not sent any Bitcoin to the ransomers either, noting they were not taking the threats particularly seriously.
Wow, coiners can't even threaten people into taking them seriously!
Hackernews' community has consistently failed to impress me in terms of technical competence, world weariness or even civility. The hostility's "flavor" over there is far different from Reddit's, but it's still there.
[Edit: Here's a great example. The moron put a wallet (apparently without a password) on a NAS that was also running an unrelated, open-to-the-world server for his security cameras. He installed that software. Surprise, surprise, the file got snagged and it's buh-bye 4 BTC (nearly $1,200 at today's price).]
This is supposedly a zip of the pacer info for the case from bitcointalk, it's probably legit but I didn't download it because I'm an ideas guy https://mega.nz/#!IZ4QABQa!XXKz_ar4i1DmE_TkqcUVw-cBdImFeU0gpR3Ah51fSlA
From their press release: https://www.bitfinex.com/pages/announcements/?id=51
> We understand that this is an inconvenience, but users who do not remove their cryptocurrency holdings from their Bitfinex accounts by midnight UTC on August 15th, 2015 will have their cryptocurrency balances exchanged to USD at market rates. The resulting USD balance will be available in customer accounts for customers to access at any time.
Wonder what is gonna happen to the BTC price when a shit-ton of BTC gets dumped onto the market?
... Who am I kidding... nothing. BTC prices don't track reality at all...
tldr up front: porting is another word for translating. BitcoinD is the official bitcoin client, written in C++. He is just simply translating C++ to Javascript. Why? I have no idea.
long version:
my understanding (someone correct me if I'm wrong), bitcoind is the official full-node client software that runs most of the bitcoin network. This is the one that goes beyond just being a wallet manager, and also downloads the entire blockchain to your computer and broadcasts transactions. (But it's not mining software, that's something else). And BitcoinD is written in C++.
Anyways, to the best of my understanding, ryancarnated used to work on a project called bitcore while at Bitpay. Which is basically BitcoinD, but in javascript!. Now that he's at reddit, he forked the bitcore project and is making his own version called fullnode.
Again, why he is doing this, I have no clue. I think it's just because javascript is the only language he knows, and his limited imagination only allows him to take an existing program and make it again in another language. aka reinvent the wheel.
Ironically a lot of crypto holders I know are far-left because they feel like it's superior to stocks because it doesn't rely on the exploitation of the workers in the company to make money.
Don't ask any tough questions about the exploitation of the miners mining the rare earth metals to make the ASIC chips.
Like seriously I'm currently reading this book about the history of the iPhone. It points out the immense ecological cost of building iPhones, mostly in mining metals and lithium. But you know...at least in the end someone gets an iPhone. Like at least there's some utility that the human species gets out of these devices instead of just being a pyramid scheme.
A lot of ink has been spilled over the the negative consequences of Uber. You've got smartphones built by exploited workers in the third world used to summon a questionably safe vehicle charging a fare that's no cheaper than a traditional taxi driven by an exploited worker with no benefits that adds massive congestion to our roads....but at least at the end of the ride someone gets where they want to go!
> Whom the gods would destroy, they first ridicule. Signs that the end was near appeared with the issuance of a pack of South Sea playing cards. Each card contained a caricature of a bubble company, with an appropriate verse inscribed underneath.
Malkiel, Burton. A Random Walk Down Wall Street. P. 45
top level: the Hacker News commentary. Even the SV technolibs don't buy it - 'cos startups just happen to be all about highly regulated investment, and quite a few of the people point out that financial regulations give a structure for the startup system to exist at all.
User "elaineo" is one of said bozos. OH MY GOD THE ENTITLEMENT.
[offtopic, sorry Butters]
Are you still on this one? This is where GG defended 8chan's pedo boards. 200+ upvotes for this call for GG retribution against an article mentioning none of Gamergate, gamers or games. It's like you don't realise trivially-citable history goes back even 24 hours, let alone longer.
[we return you to your scheduled butts]
Tethers make up about 55% of bitcoin. Should enough people want to cash out there won't be enough real money in the system to meet demand, at which point the value crashes.
This article explains the idea fairly clearly, and almost certainly better than I am!
Yes. You can change the hash but you cannot change the transaction input/output/value.
See https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#transaction-malleability
> None of Bitcoin’s signature hash types protect the signature script, leaving the door open for a limited denial of service attack called transaction malleability. The signature script contains the secp256k1 signature, which can’t sign itself, allowing attackers to make non-functional modifications to a transaction without rendering it invalid. For example, an attacker can add some data to the signature script which will be dropped before the previous pubkey script is processed. > > Although the modifications are non-functional—so they do not change what inputs the transaction uses nor what outputs it pays—they do change the computed hash of the transaction. Since each transaction links to previous transactions using hashes as a transaction identifier (txid), a modified transaction will not have the txid its creator expected.
Basically transactions contain a bit of code and you can change the code as long as it does exactly the same as before. So if you change the Bitcoin version of "print 'Hello world' to "print 'Hello ' + 'world'" you have two different valid transactions with different hashes.
Looks like Craig has fired up his bitcoin supercomputer botnet
>Error 1020 Ray ID: 4d4b566889df5db2 • 2019-05-10 10:47:52 UTC
>
>Access denied
>
>What happened?
>
>This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks.
>
>Cloudflare Ray ID: 4d4b566889df5db2 • Your IP: 1.156.204.61 • Performance & security by Cloudflare
The book is dated, but there's a fantastic page from The Millionaire Next Door that's only become more relevant over time:
> Overall, only about 9 percent of the millionaires we have interviewed hold their investments for less than one year. In other words, fewer than one in ten millionaires are "active investors."
> One in five (20 percent) hold, on average, for a year or two; one in four (25 percent) hold for between two and four years. About 13 percent are in the four-to-six-year category. More than three in ten (32 percent) hold their investments for more than six years. In fact, 42 percent of the millionaires we interviewed for our latest survey had made no trades whatsoever in their stock portfolios in the year prior to the interview.
It is a huge amount of fun to watch the chaos in /r/wallstreetbets, but I can't imagine actually gambling serious money like that.
Email took until the late 90s to become widely used? Are you like 12 years old or something? Email was widely used by the late 1980s, often on proprietary online systems (AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, etc.). By the early 90s, it was nearly ubiquitous, with many public libraries providing dial-up e-mail and Internet access for free or for a nominal fee. I'm fairly sure e-mail in 1991 was more widely used than Bitcoin is now.
edit: 8.9 million Fortune 2000 users in the US; used by 45% of headquarters employees; 2.3 billion messages sent in 1991: https://books.google.com/books?id=UXInb_hVo_UC&lpg=PA53&ots=SyV-Wm4DcT&dq=e-mail%20users%201991&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q=e-mail%20users%201991&f=false
For reference, Bitcoin is at about 100k transactions per day, which is 36M/year. So email was about 70x more popular in 1991 in terms of transaction count.
Oh man, this HackerNews comment is deliciously ironic:
> captaincrunch 523 days ago | parent | on: Mt.Gox Withdrawals
> Seeing customers get this treatment is exactly why I created my own exchange, in fact there are so many alternatives nobody should be using Mt. Gox anymore.
> So many good alternatives:
> VaultOfSatoshi.com, Bitstamp.com, Kraken.com, etc..
>Yes it's true, we have extended the T&Cs and banned crypto mining. We have received many orders for our servers with large hard disks. However, large storage boxes are increasingly being rented for this purpose. With storage boxes, this leads to problems with bandwidth on the host systems. With chia mining, there is also the problem that the hard disks are extremely stressed by the many read and write operations and will therefore break.
Funny shit. The celebrities who accepted appearance fees for this fraud should be absolutely embarrassed. The Centra fraudsters bought Floyd Mayweather's endorsement - coin frauds love to buy celebrity endorsements to bait new bagholders.
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/04/05/binance-delist-centra-ctr-mayweather
This is a hard problem, and the Hacker News discussion is reasonably informed. Amazon actually monitors the Github everything-feed for AWS keys and disables accounts it finds in it! But evidently not even that's 100%. You'll see that thread includes other examples, e.g. mailserver credentials that a spammer grabbed. There's all sorts of ways to express hard-coded credentials, in any language, including HN Hipster Language Of The Week ... Github could start to nibble away at it, but it's a protean problem.
Hmm.. I get what you're saying but I'm not sure that's right.. Let's assume he's on a Macbook Pro for shits and giggles;
MBP battery size: 63.5Wh
Battery Life (Web browsing): 7hr
So his computer would use about 9Wh/hr.
If he took 5 minutes to write that post, he would've used about 0.75Wh of power. Assuming average energy rates of $0.15/kWh, that would have cost him about $0.0001125 or about 1/100th of a cent.
For some reason the tether one is my favorite. The field of stock photography/graphics is interesting. Apparently it can be pretty lucrative.
Good times when people used their idle computing power and energy consumption to projects like Folding@home. Now most people will use it for the most profitable coin, even if it produces nothing useful for humanity.
Someone at bitcoinmarkets pointed out a funny thing: go to https://www.bitfinex.com/pages/announcements, watch the posted time on the posts, and refresh the page a couple of times. Time travel, baby!
This is my main concern, I feel like the distribution of the currency opens the door to being another pyramid-scheme-type setup that overwhelmingly benefits early adopters. I don't think their intentions aren't genuine, I just don't see a great solution to the problem of how coins should be created/destroyed/distributed.
It does look pretty reasonable though.
That's just about peak comedy gold for a coin right there. I remember when 42 coin hit that...although that coin was about dead by the time it happened anyhow, it was definitely a nail in its coffin.
Edit: And apparently they relaunched. That is so irritating to me, because now I have a worthless 0.01 42 of the original chain. Long live 42 classic! May 42-fork burn!
Shodan is a service that pops up in the news for their internet scans every once in a while, usually related to idiots who keep putting electric grid gear on the internet. This report shows people running the bitcoin core (tcp port 8333) at the end of June.
- A massive 2700 people were active in the bitcoin network (or 3% as many people as are running DNS servers in Hong Kong right now)
- Twice as many users run Windows vrs Linux
- The vast majority of users are behind on their version, with the most popular being two minor versions behind (0.10.0 vrs 0.10.2)
The dedication to security really shines bright here! Also the forecast for comedy gold is bullish if they ever do change the blocksize, 0.9.1 still has a pretty big userbase and is over a year old, perhaps there's some kind of altcoin noise distorting these numbers but an equally likely possibility is just human sloth.
Regular fiat currency symbols are far from completely covered by Unicode already, so this is Excel-specific rendering (or a custom MS font, in case you're exporting such a worksheet to PDF?) that will also stop working if you open such a file in an on-premises release such as Excel 2016. Bitcoins have been traditionally approximated using the symbol of the Thai Baht.
Well the media isn’t always a good source of nuanced commentary on the fintech space. I’ve worked in fintech for a decade, so do with that as you will.
First off neither Wise nor Chivo compete with western union. WU takes physical cash from someone (or electronic) in the source country and hands the recipient bills in the destination country. Physical units of currency. Not electronic. To do this they have to pay for property, staff, security and compliance/regulatory in origin and destination countries. That shit ain’t cheap!
Chivo fuck only knows what they’re actually doing but they claim to accept electronic cash in the source country and give you Chivo fun bucks in ES. This is not physical cash. To get cash you have to go to an ATM and pay huge premiums to get cash out.
Wise multi-currency (https://wise.com/multi-currency-account/) is most comparable to Chivo. They give you local US banking details (and in AU, CA, SG, UK, EU) and you can accept domestic transfers for free into your account. And hold them there, without conversion, for free. And send them to others. In many places they offer a debit card too. This has been an option for Salvadorans for years. Not sure about physical cash out though, I could look into it if you’re curious.
That wasn't an idea of the game creators. Adding your own criminal is a 50$ perk.
>Name in the Game
>Immortalize yourself, by getting a prisoner named after you and supply the info for his rapsheet. Your prisoner will be in the final version of PA and everyone will know that YOU helped make the game a reality. Obviously you get all the previous tiers too.
http://www.introversion.co.uk/prisonarchitect/
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1iy9p2/my_favorite_inmate_in_prison_architect_so_far/
If you're on Windows 10, you can usually shrink the disk space used by a game that's not well-compressed, generally without losing performance (even potentially gaining loading performance if your drive is slow), though you have to manually rerun it when the game gets updates.
It can also unshrink them as well if there actually are performance problems.
I really recommend D.Tube though.
it's YouTube somehow built on Steem (and blockchain)
And it's EXACTLY what you would think it is. I would expect maybe more nazis, but you got 9/11 truther right at the top, close enough
Paid internet browsing? Wow, what a deal!
Privacy in a sense they do not log your browsing history and added a Tor tab. Everything else is, of course, recorded, like IP address, metadata (including location and time).
Don't worry, their middlemen record your browsing history and sell all the data (Heroku, Amazon, Fastly).
Of course that all the traffic is mirrored (tracked) by five eyes coalition. Brave is more of a "Ryan's Privates" than a "Private Ryan".
Just another BS to sell useless tokens to dumb dumbs.
PS: I'm sure they can "print" your browsing history on a court order basis in a matter of seconds. Their browser code might be open sourced by their network is not. Also, like any USA or five eyes coalition company, they must bend a knee to NSA, no matter what. ;)
Corrupt government payment systems is for sure a 21st century problem.
14th Century problems were more along the lines of Bubonic Plague, Hundred Years War, Brigandage, Rapine, Schism and such.
https://www.amazon.com/Distant-Mirror-Calamitous-14th-Century/dp/0345349571
I think you missed the part where it's still a closed source, proprietary app that the developer presumably wants to make money on. Offering penny shaving bounties only works for open source where I retain some rights. If I make essentially a "free" contribution to his project, then I want to at least be able to run the software myself.
You should read the book Predictably Irrational, because they talk about this specifically. When lawyers were asked to do charitable work for a nominal rate (~$10 an hour or whatever it was), they all refused. When they were asked to do charitable work for free, they all said yes.
Every week you can buy different value packs of video games / e-books / music for an amount of your choice and they give all that money to charity (and you can choose from a small list which charities will be getting your money)
Well, typically butters really mean they are engaging in a kind of Martingale Strategery of buying all the way down in hopes they'll "win" when they use the phrase. But, as for the real thing, while it has a definite meaning, it tends to be a bad way to invest: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-fallacy-of-dollar-cost-averaging-2012-05-15
> One paper estimates that the power consumption of Bitcoin mining is approximately equal to the power consumption of Ireland. My own estimate is that it is the same as the power consumption of Cambodia.
The /r/economics thread on it is hilarious:
> quick - shift all your botcoins, dodge coins, alt coins, etc into this new fangled currency called "dollars"
> I had a ton of dual lands but got rid of them a decade ago
weak hands
> Must say that I'm a bit shocked prices are still so high?
It's because of HODLing. WotC has stated that they will never reprint dual lands. This has the same effect on Magic players as the 21m cap has on butters.
> Who the fuck still plays MTG? 40+ year olds with too much disposable income?
20-30 is a closer age range. This is the top 8 of the latest big Magic tournament.
I'm not wrong. What kind of retarded response is this?
But here you go, here's the input for a standard P2PKH transaction, it needs a public key as well a signature, the moment this is broadcast to the network, your public key for the address is exposed:
https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#p2pkh-script-validation
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script#Standard_Transaction_to_Bitcoin_address_.28pay-to-pubkey-hash.29
Bored, tired and some time off, so I made this handy generator for all of us to enjoy.
And you know what, that shit on that list is pretty proper, just try out and see.
It's called Bcash or BCH abbreviated. Why is this important? BCH is the recommended ticker symbol. Not to be confused with BCC/BitConnect, #15 on coinmarketcap.
Thank you for choosing Bcash as the official name.
Comment on story about KodakCoin not paying people. Text:
>I am Lloyd Beiny, Chairman of The WENN Media Group (WMG) owner of the brand name WENN.
>In the interest of accuracy, the reader should distinguish between the parties mentioned above and WMG as the good name of WENN has been maligned in this process.
>WMG which is 30 year old business agreed to license the name WENN to the entity previously called WENN Digital Inc (WDi) who were entitled to use the name "WENN" subject to certain contractual conditions.
>WDi, who are now known as Ryde Holding Inc failed to raise the necessary funds to meet those contractual conditions and its licence to use the name WENN automatically terminated on 31st July 2018.
>WMG no longer has any connection with Ryde Holding Incorporated, KodakOne or any individuals mentioned above.
>Additionally, WMG has terminated its previous post licensing/copyright infringement agreement with Ryde Gmbh and has served notice of its intention to issue legal proceedings to obtain payment of an accounting and monies due under that agreement.
Link to the actual transcript (98 pages) of the sentencing hearing for those interested.
Edit Contents: bibliography (pp. 7-9), dismissal of charges (pp. 13-15), sentencing guideline calculations (pp. 16-24), victim impact statements (pp. 36-50), statement by the prosecution (pp. 50-54), statement by the defense (pp. 54-59), statement by the defendant (pp. 59-62), justification of the sentence by the court (pp. 63-90, 93-94), pronouncement of forfeiture of property by the court (pp. 90-93), pronouncement of the sentence by the court (pp. 93-96), designation of prison facility by the court (pp. 96-97).
Googled "Capricorn Fibonacci." It links to PYRAMIDION - A sacred pyramid code. Pyramid scheme confirmed?
> First, I think Bitcoin fans could make a better argument regarding efficiency if they were able to demonstrate that the renewable energy they use to mine did in fact go to waste. If not, why not? If these are new power plants why would governments build unneeded power plants?
As I said in my original response, "Hey it's better than wasting energy on nothing" has to be one of the lamest justifications ever.
Anybody who is generating energy, who is wasting energy, that's a serious design flaw in their entire business model and energy generation design. To use that for crypto would be doubling down on poor planning and design.
It's business 101 to not waste resources.
In fact, this illustrates a serious flaw in bitcoin's design. Why just have those miners guess random numbers? Why not have them participating in a productive pursuit like folding at home where collective, distributed computing power could actually benefit mankind? It wouldn't be that difficult to figure out a way to create a blockchain in the process of performing socially important computations.
But that idea is completely alien to a bunch of greedy narcissists.
Seriously, if Folding At Home figured out a way to create tokens through their work, even I would be on board with that. At least all that energy would be doing something positive for mankind.
I guess the 47-step guide to securing your bit-coins needs another step now?
"Run your own full node, it's easy and inexpensive. Just follow the instructions."
Well you have to expect that Dell, Newegg and company are getting paid cash. Coinbase only has a small margin per transaction, and it wouldn't take much for that margin to disappear if the price is dropping .3-.5% before they can sell. I don't know their burn rate or anything, but they list 33 employees on their site and claim to have raised $31 million in investment over the last 2 years. Startups with more capital, better management, and smaller teams have burned through more money many times in my lifetime.
Again, I don't have any info, but from the outside I'd be nervous that they are at best keeping even on every transaction and I have to think they are dumping all the coins they get.
I tried, I really tried, but that Snowflake to Avalanche White Paper is so far over my head it might as well be up my arse.
Could anyone explain how these protocols are new and/or interesting? Even with David's article and the coin desk link I'm still scratching my head.
It sure is.
Check it out.
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_57_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/ssl__verify_mode.html
Now maybe you want to know what verify peer does? Go ahead. Click on that.
'Verify the peer.'
Definitely encourages reading the code instead of the "documentation".
The Bitfinex Hack was Published on Steemit 3 weeks Before it Happened.
Polo and Trex might be on fire, too.
Welp, someone is having fun with filling up with random stuff. Here's the version prior to this.
P.S. The bot can't achieve the original version.
P.S.S Saved before its master author deletes/reverts back.
> Imposible registrarse, salta error al querer confirmar el pin.
> no puedo describir una experiencia por que la aplicación no acepta mi pin
> Intento volver a entrar y me da un error como puedo volver a ingresar?
> No funciona 😴
> Awful it gets stuck everytime... My transactions went away to I don't know whom 'cause my father didn't get his money 🤬🤬
...all from the last 24 hours.
But... you know. The president said it's all fixed and I'm sure politicians don't lie.
The basics are fractals and the exponential growth of returns in markets.
Self-Organizing Criticality and Power Laws being the more advanced theories that influenced me. A great book is How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality that gets into these models of nature and markets.
Sand pile or snow avalanche models are the most intuitive. There are many tiny avalanches, but every so often a big one grows and wipes out the whole sand pile or snow pack. The Bitcoin super bubble would be the big pop many expect that see all of Bitcoin as one bubble.
Wow, from $2.44 to $79.99. That's what I call a reverse discount!
With your shipping fee of $9.99 I could buy 3 watches on amazon including shipping. You sure know how to scam people. You should work as an ICO promoter.
> you can use cash or gold or anything to pay for illegal things as well
That's the kind of brainless idiotic response we get from defenders of darkweb child porn and crypto.
Not only do child traffickers use crypto (whichever one they think is most anonymous) to pimp the children they kidnap, they benefit far more than if they accepted cash. Many of these child traffickers have been accepting Bitcoin since the early days, they have watched their crypto earnings increase in value as people are suckered into investing in this pyramid scheme. They have become wealthy beyond their dreams from trafficking children for crypto payments. It has encouraged others to kidnap children and get a piece of this business.
Watch 'I Am Jane Doe' to see how long this has been happening for...
Finally had enough time to go look for the archived link of the entire email dump from last month. Full of comedy gold if you haven't caught up on all the craziness of GAW.
https://archive.today/https://groups.google.com/a/geniusesatwork.com/*
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8322154
>> Only Reddit admins can shadowban someone > >I'm a mod of a default subreddit. We can't shadowban people from the entire site, but we can use AutoModerator to moderate comments and shadowban users in a specific subreddit based on certain criteria (e.g. one day old account with negative comment karma or if account mentions certain keywords) or by manually adding a user to a shadowban list. This is separate from reddit's built-in subreddit ban, which is much more obvious. It's possible (and sounds a lot like) he got banned/shadowbanned in /r/news and the mods there thought his self-promotion went too far and got reported for spam to maybe be banned outright from reddit. That seems excessive though. I usually just tell people to do a better job contributing to reddit if they're being spammy, and I only report people when they're creating new accounts to harass others.
/r/Bitcoin doesn't do that so much, they usually delete or fully ban the poster. Nothing so subtle as a specific-subreddit shadowban.
Nope, they really aren't FDIC insured from their user agreement:
>If you do hold a Balance, that Balance represents an unsecured claim against PayPal and is not insured by the FDIC.
Interesting, they're making crapton of empty blocks
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-abc/blocks
Funny but also puzzling who would waste time and money using expensive equipment to troll some unpopular fork that was shunned on arrival.
> I’m the cryptocoin developer FreeTrade. I worked on launching ProtoShares (the ledger was later used to seed BitShares), MemoryCoin (now defunct, but first coin to have voting and pay developers from the blockchain, and offer AES-NI GPU/ASIC resistance), HOdlcoin (first coin to pay interest on every balance and offer term deposits).
Of these coins, only HOdlcoin is listed on Coinmarketcapcom - at rank #572, $170.9k "market cap".
The dude is also the one who wrote this copper-bottomed analysis of the coming BTC/Bcash flippening. I think they just might have an agenda.
It's called Bcash or BCH abbreviated. Why is this important? BCH is the recommended ticker symbol. Not to be confused with BCC/BitConnect, #15 on coinmarketcap.
Thank you for choosing Bcash as the official name.
https://www.kraken.com/en-gb/legal section 5.2
Kraken is a financial firm regulated in the US - IINAL but I'd guess using someone else's documents to register would be considered fraud. Big red flag especially for a crypto exchange as I'm sure this sub would agree.