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lui8906

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    Comment #34308570

    - I can send someone 1 million USDC for 0.000001 US cent with confirmation in Couple examples that have come up recently for me personally. I can agree that there is something comp…

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    Comment #33600374

    Name one Crypto chain that takes hours to confirm a transaction. Bitcoin has a blocktime of 10 minutes and Ethereum is 10 to 20 seconds. More modern networks process transactions i…

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    Comment #32928329

    It's almost like it's not all a scam isn't it?

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    Comment #32928310

    Seems kinda obvious. New Tether is issued because people typically want to onboard into crypto assets.

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    Comment #32737393

    DCA has positives and negatives. Positive, you are averaging out the risk by spreading out your purchases and averaging into your position. Negative, time in the market beats timin…

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    Comment #31580240

    > I want my transactions to be private to the world but it's reasonable that law enforcement has a method to investigate criminal behavior. If law enforcement has a method to inves…

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    Comment #31142918

    > None of these are experiments with the concept of money. You still transact in the exact same fundamental way as with traditional online payments, just 1000x worse. How involved …

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    Comment #31133114

    Putting my bias at the front, I own crypto and am "pro" crypto if we can boil it down simply. I'm also deeply skeptical of a lot of projects in crypto, most OG's are because there …

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    Comment #31096934

    > Okay, provide some evidence for that claim. Because again, that's the claim of "Well crypto is doing amazing things" but it needs actual evidence. I know it theoretically could h…

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    Comment #31003234

    Who wrote something else? Not sure if you're referring to another comment or I'm being strawmanned? :)

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    Comment #31001471

    > What's the alternative? Someone commits a felony, and then you...? The US is the OECD country with the highest per capita % of incarcerated individuals. By orders of magnitude. S…

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    Comment #30671245

    Is there a noobie friendly resource for following the latest news on fusion? Thinking something like Risky Biz (for IT security) but for fusion?

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    Comment #30590692

    > Either violation of a nation's sovereignty is a crime or it isn't. If being an authoritariann dictatorship is the criteria when is Saudi Arabia getting invaded? Ah but here you a…

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    Comment #30243719

    Uniswap V3 uses NFTs to represent liquidity provider positions. > https://uniswap.org/blog/launch-uniswap-v3

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    Comment #30232244

    I can resonate with this. What I remind myself when I have these thoughts is: A) Life is like an evolving game with many rounds. Some doors close in your 20s, other doors open in 3…

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    Comment #30194451

    Crypto offers stable coins (USD, EUR, KRC etc.) and non stable, volatile assets (BTC, ETH, SOL). The original poster complained about: A) Crypto being too volatile B) Crypto recrea…

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    Comment #30060788

    > This won't be fixed by web3, ad monetization and tracking won't magically stop. They exist because there is a demand. Saying it is this way because this is the way people want it…

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    Comment #30057795

    > I think he was commenting on other’s misinterpretation and misapplication of the original point. He is dead-on. Other's *Imagined misinterpretation, or is there some evidence to …

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    Comment #30057293

    > So I would, if anything, reverse the maxim: “Buy things, not experiences!” Sure, the Lambo might still be a waste of money, but thoughtfully chosen material goods can enable new …

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    Comment #29832316

    And users are able to buy and sell the items from each other? Does Steam take a cut?

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    Comment #29821768

    > https://mmos.com/news/ubisoft-deleted-account-with-hundreds-... "Trust us, your items are safe with us!" > the only difference (which doesn't really add any utility to games) is …

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    Comment #29821741

    Perhaps you're not playing modern games where skins and cosmetics already go for a lot of money. Games like Call of Duty, Apex Legends etc.. Cosmetics in these games have a rarity …

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    Comment #29821678

    You have a credibly neutral place to store the items, publicly accessible to any other developer to leverage without having to maintain you're own endpoints and documentation. Bake…

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    Comment #29615425

    Look to their diplomatic behavior around the South China Sea for the last couple of decades.

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    Comment #29508819

    > If you live somewhere where cryptocurrency gains are taxed as income, how do you handle the reporting of this at tax time? It seems like it would be tedious to keep track of ever…