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Kraken has been trading crypto coins since 2011. Why did it take the SEC so long to bring this suit?

Yes, the exchanges are 3rd parties that could lose, and often do lose, the money

The Not Just Bikes YT channel recently observed that building new walkable neighborhoods in the US and Canada is not legal. The existing pre-war walkable neighborhoods are all we a…

I was a holder of UST in anchor protocol. I was aware the peg was shaky, but my yield farm output UST so I went with it.

I do think vision habits matter for near sightedness. The human eye, like all mammal eyes, seems adapted for far vision. To bring the focal point in, the ciliary muscle must contra…

I just don't understand why cities in California won't let go of single unit zoning. Single unit is the most expensive and least efficient zoning rule. Getting rid of it would brin…

I'd rather have 0.1% of my money stolen than do business with banks.

He said "Stablecoins are tokens that are backed by a fiat currency." But it really tokens that are pegged to a fiat currency. You can't redeem tethers because there is no back acco…

I didn't understand what the button was and pushed it right away lol

You're not wrong, but it can be a fantastic experience if you do have your own self-hosted node. I run the geth node on a linux server and can connect to it to send blockchain tran…

Car culture apology bullshit. Why aren't there safe places for bikes and peds on those roads too? Why should cars have all the space to the point where it is practically suicidal t…

You should check out the NJB you tube links. Stroads aren't fast for car travel. If you want a fast road, design for that. Stroad design gives you the worst of both worlds: slow an…

Yes but designing roads that are hostile to anything other than a car, thus forcing people into cars, is very common in America.

Brian is the man. Love his web page on dutch bikes in Amsterdam. Inspired me to get a real dutch bike and put 30k miles on it! https://www.ski-epic.com/amsterdam_bicycles/

Correct, OP seems to be referring to single-collateral DAI aka SAI, which is deprecated. The current DAI is backed by a basket of assets. IMO, the basket is too heavily weighted to…

Both of my ISPs offer IPv6 gateways. I set them up and visited several IP6 websites. I crypto exchange I use frequently, Bittrex, allows to whitelist an IP address. Since I have a …

That's an old argument, the "vehicular cyclist." Only 1% of people are brave enough to do this. For bikes to have a significant mode share, it has to be more comfortable than "just…

Nissan Leaf tho

True but couldn't some good be compared like the cost of housing, food, clothes, etc.?

Picked up an HP calculator to take the FE exam. The other approved calculators were simple 4 functions calcs. I assumed everyone would be on the HP but I was the only one who had o…

But yet . . . Would you say eventually everyone who wants dollars will have enough and the demand for new dollars will be zero?

(Paraphrasing Sapiens): 1,000 years ago a person living in China had a varied diet, spent time catching food in a forest, was not exposed to industrial pollution, had large amounts…

Huge grin fan

My skeptic friend is always asking me how will I know when to dump on the suckers. Answer: I don't want to dump on anyone, I want to hodl my coins!

They do self-custody. #1 rule of bitcoin: not your keys, not your coins