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    Do you have a source? Sounds like you just made that up. Investors, especially large institutions will have teams of lawyers who would would have paperwork from the party they purc…

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    Comment #18117705

    What’s more, miners can offer something unique: brand-new, “virgin” coins, which some investors covet. Such coins command a premium of up to 20 percent, according to Travis Kling, …

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    Comment #18117679

    interesting... "Decentralized dark pool exchange protocol. Built for laundering large volumes of crypto." https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-fines-btc-e...

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    Comment #18112335

    "$14B" on paper - but the real value of what could be extracted from market sells would be immensely less. Those numbers are based on the market spot price, and not the order book …

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    Comment #18112060

    It's been a solved problem in private tracker communities - where users leach bandwidth is on a credit system and they need to maintain a ratio of upload/download to keep their acc…

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    Comment #18111781

    https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/01/08/trons-whitepaper-copie... It's amazing that such a clearly fraudulent project acquired any funding to begin with.

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    Comment #18111776

    "There is a problem with torrents - nobody want to seed. So let's require users to pay us money for our penny stock tokens"

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    Comment #18111767

    Do the seeders generate the coins specific to each torrent, or is this some sort of scam where coins are made by TRON and users now have to pay for what's already free..?

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    Comment #18104852

    Claiming that we will not be able to solve the routing problem on the lightning network is exactly the same as claiming that we won't be able to solve the routing problem on the In…

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    Comment #18104848

    You missed the point entirely. The vast majority of the supply is owned by a very small oligarch. The chances of Bitcoin becoming obsolete or failing catastrphically due to a glitc…

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    Comment #18099450

    Point being the Bitcoin supply is increasing at a rate higher than fiat. What is that called? It's not deflation.

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    Comment #18099163

    https://1ml.com/visual/network Sealioning (also spelled sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment which consists of pursuing people with persistent requests …

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    Comment #18098994

    >A whole world currency that is potentially immune to inflation and government manipulation. But completely exposed to private manipulation - malicious coders inserting backdoors i…

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    Comment #18098968

    Bitcoin's inflation rate is higher than the USD though? Bitcoin inflation rate per annum: 3.87% USD Current inflation rate for the United States is 2.7%. Early in Bitcoin history, …

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    Comment #18098943

    Other than a non functioning economy where wealthy oligarchs control everything simply for showing up a few years early and taking control of the money supply because they already …

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    Comment #18098936

    The way Lightening Network is designed kills the p2p aspect of the Bitcoin protocol.. LN is predictably to benefit capital holders with enough excess capital to act as the backbone…

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    Anyone who knows how routing on the internet works can explain to you why the internet requires trusted backbones to route, and even then packets are dropped and bad routes happen.…

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    Comment #18096784

    In an adversarial decentralized global payment network, information does not propagate instantaneously. As transaction rates increase, race conditions will increasingly clog the ne…

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    Comment #18091148

    Raiblocks aka Nano is a scam. "Distribution is complete" - how was the supply created and distributed? Hint, the supply was "premined" and a the creator chose to gift a very small …