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But point a and b in you're assessment of gold's value are two of the most common arguments for crypto, specifically bitcoin, as well. a) crypto holders believe that the value will…

It appears the hacker has begun moving ether from the account. The number presented in this link will no longer match the amount in the title. There is currently 83K ether remainin…

Sorry :) I didn't want to link anything that had potential for bias. Just the account with the amount. But, wow, this post blew up.

This is true. But mastercard facilitates the liquidation of this credit via their payment systems, which people will continue to use. Initially people will likely use ether as a st…

Exactly! Could you imagine if we could watch a live twitter fueled debate about how to upgrade our central banking system? It's a beautiful sight. Flawed, but beautiful.

Even further, there are no gatekeepers...

I've found this to be my experience as well. Although, I've witnessed a few cases of co-workers taking advantage of the freedom. I suspect the software engineering field is less pr…

I'm not even laughing because this will happen

The first thought after going through all these photos was: incredibly stilted. It's amazingly impressive, but the human photographer will always be able to capture the subtleties …

Permissionless ownership.

Not all good things come in beautiful packages. This is the economic consequence of creating a system that no one entity can fully control. Without a central backing, it's value ca…

Blockchains only improve the efficiency of permissionless system. If you're going to create an in-house currency, it would be idiotic to use something as un-scalable as a blockchai…

The colossal compute power goes up when more fiat enter the system and traders speculate the price up. It is a security mechanism, not a throughput mechanism

Efficiency was and never will be the primary goal of bitcoin. It is meant to provide you with permissionless ownership. In a permissionless system if what you own_ is worth X dolla…

Whether or not you agree with the model of token sales (most here don't) Ethereum already hit it's scaling limits after hosting several hyped ICOs. When the ICO bubble deflates or …

Yeah, this makes sense. I talk to myself a decent amount. But not about anything remotely constructive. I'm a talkative person by nature and spend a lot of time alone, so I'm guess…

This article is lazy. It sounds like the author took a cursory look at the tech and wrote it off. This has no place at the top of hackernews.

I finally bit the bullet and downloaded it. It's a pretty seamless transition from using chrome. I'm really impressed.