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> That money's not going to the homeless people. It's going to the people who run the services to support them. You think they'd want to see homelessness end? Yes, I think those pe…

That's exactly what it is. If you recall, these image based captchas were originally in 2007 for digitizing books. [1] In 2012, Google started using captchas to identify house numb…

Well, I'll be damned. It looks like there's going to be a general strike primarily organized by the US Government. I guess horseshoe theory is real after all. Seriously though, it'…

I think that's because nothing on wikipedia links to that page. I managed to go from spud gun -> great depression -> dissolution of the soviet union -> soviet union -> sputnik, but…

Oh, I see what you mean.

You can premine chain splits. See bitcoin gold, which had a premine of 100k coins, or the very coin this thread is about, with a premine of millions.

One public key contains 1.8B USD, but take a look at the address again: 3D2oetdNuZUqQHPJmcMDDHYoqkyNVsFk9r See how it starts with a 3? Most normal bitcoin addresses start with a 1.…

Yes, maybe, kind of? With quantum computing it's expected that the ECDSA public-key cryptography used in bitcoin addresses will be broken. However, the ECDSA public key is only exp…

Your source uses poor methodology to calculate inequality, and is really outdated. The 2014 article you're citing uses this 2013 article [1] as a source. This uses data from bitcoi…

> It pays dividends It doesn't pay dividends in ETH, it pays dividends in more kitties. Is that really a dividend? If apple shares could only pay dividends in more apple shares ins…

That's an MMORPG for kids. You can go on quests, enter contests, chat with friends, post on their forums, make guilds, do battle against other pets, solve puzzles, trade on the NEO…

> The game's top cat brought in $117,712.12 (£87,686.11) when it sold on Saturday, 2 December. Is it weird that I think that the cat that was sold for 100K was a wash trade (someon…

Fair enough, I just figured others may find the exceptions interesting. And to be fair, both of those cryptocurrencies have been around for ~3 years now, which is practically ancie…

Monero and dash both have fairly good privacy built into the protocol [1] [2], although monero suffers from large transaction sizes and dash suffers from centralization as a result…

Many are located in Georgia and WA (honourable mention goes out to Labrador), which have cheap hydroelectricity.

Your blog is excellent, but your BM1387 numbers are a hair off. BM1387 has worse performance than 0.10J/GH @ the wall in practice. Bitmain has released 3 BM1387 based miners (S9, T…

Poe's law is working against me here, what gives away that this person isn't serious? I think it's cool, by the way.

That's correct, but this isn't the same! I've seen some folks on reddit mention you can get 7% of someone's deposited money as a bonus if you refer them. Only a ponzi scheme can su…

> That said, I'm not sure it's a ponzi scheme exactly. Red flags: * Incredible, almost unbelievable returns * A referral program to draw in new people * Open-ended IPO, the platfor…

If you guys want to check out the most ludicrous scam I've seen, take a look at Bitconnect. It's a 2 billion dollar literal (and I mean literal) ponzi scheme. They promise 1%/day r…

Yeah the volatility is a huge problem right now, agreed! There's a lot of greed, too. It reminds me of 2013, but worse.

You wouldn't have a self contained lightning channel with every single merchant that has to be settled individually. I'm not sure what makes you think that, as my last post describ…

With lightning it's still ultimately settled on the bitcoin network. Here's a lazy copy/paste from the site: > The Lightning Network is dependent upon the underlying technology of …

Bitcoin's block size should begin to approach 1.8MB (with a super theoretical maximum of 4MB IIRC) now that the segregated witness upgrade has been activated. In the long term, add…