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Whew I wonder which of your sentences caused downvotes

Shh, coins !

I think there are two groups, one that shapeshifts and moves goalposts for the purpose of selling coins at a profit (either offloading a huge stash or being on the right side of the bubble cycle), and another that treats it like a portfolio piece next to their gold coins.

The first is truly impossible to reason with. For the second, the event is simple: breaking the crypto or the crypto-economics in a way that prevents it from being scarce and “decentralized” (what’s it called when something is “actually, very centralized” but I can use it to move $50m across the rio grande?). How do you convince a goldbug that gold isn’t valuable because their lifetimes are not going to be thousands of years?

I ponder, are there more rooms getting listed that weren’t before (increasing supply and dropping price) or are existing rooms on the market becoming more marketable (increasing price directly with a fixed supply as you suggest). “Both” yes but ponder more with me

I ponder I ponder

I bet it depends on the city

I thought it was possible they didn't have "safe, secret" backups (the implication here hopefully being obvious from context clues. A general principle of good discourse is to assume the interpretation that makes the most sense instead of picking apart targets you yourself would know how to respond to if you were in the adversarial position)

Another way to put it, "You thought I thought they didn't have backups of their data? your face"

Is this official confirmation that everything is safely secretly backed up?

You are rejecting the negative connotation of the word “print” but the fact is that the bank can do a financial operation that would be illegal for a non-bank and which most humans would call printing money, and make a profit

Personally I am peeved that I can’t individually make fractional reserve loans in genuine fungible currency (costs ~$30m to be a bank), so I’d like to choose a zero-sum point where the rich don’t get richer by default

Do you also get taxed if paid in bitcoin

Why not just do a 10% wealth tax on all of a person's assets on top of their income tax

It comes off as slightly autistic but the concept is introduced to most people in terms of exactly the notation he used.

Not everyone is depressed or parasitic by nature

You definitely shouldn't!

Do you own Streamr coins?

And death! Meme barf buddies!

As a Cis White Male, you don’t understand what race means to other people, but don’t worry, others will be sure to treat it as a racial issue even if you refuse to.

Anonymity lets you induce cognitive dissonance in people you disagree with without real life social consequences. The troll derives pleasure not just from anger or frustration, but knowing they’ve left a logical knot which will require untangling a whole region of knowledge.

> The very first name we came up with was “stdlib” and, through a stroke of fate, “stdlib.com” was available.

maybe everyone who thought of that name before you laughed and said "I'm not that kind of person"

Your comment reads like an insight from an authoritative and trustworthy source, but you have no idea what you’re talking about and your intuitions are totally wrong.

In the first step, he says roughly "assume half of the nodes change protocol". I named by dog Bitcoin too but he doesn't have the same UTXO state as the main chain.

It’s like a reverse Haiti and Certain African Countries. I’m sure Larry Page personally randomly picked 9 states and there is no predefined context. ANY state can relate! Jobs jobs jobs!

Why is this on Hacker News?

Here's something similar: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0011076

I found that article from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregeometry_(physics)

At which number would you no longer make the point you just made? 100 failed startups? 50,000?

You’ve got a lot of faith in people. My number is maybe 5.

Can you explain your point more clearly? Are you saying that he’s not credible because he got rich off of it?

Rent-seeking and design by committee. Imagine they charged dollars instead of their own coin (it would be cheaper to do so).

I just bet myself 5:95 odds (lose means donate directly to the org - they just missed out on 12.5k) that there would be only rent-seeking or “voting” in the “token use cases”. These guys don’t know what they don’t know.

Also, HA HA HA. I used to feel bad for the victims but now I think they deserve it.

You make me glad the 2nd amendment exists! Did you study economics as your undergrad? I hope your prediction comes true and you refuse to put 10% of your money into btc until regret drives you to personally lead the revolution to seize the wealth from those dirty scheming bitcoiners

So bitcoin is like art-as-store-of-value, that makes sense, it could lose 100% of its value unlike national currencies which can only suffer 91% loss in case of a bank run and only 99.9% loss in case of hyperinflation.

Does your portfolio account for nuclear war?

Would you feel better if people stopped calling it a currency? Also do they really have to ban it, can’t they just seize it all? It might be really embarrassing if we ban it and all the capital flees to Russia.

Your comment made me think!