Viewing profile — mccoyspace

An interesting take on Google vs Apple. I would have loved to hear at least something about Alexa. I’m a hardcore Apple and Amazon user (plenty of Google too). I see myself staying…

Similar to what is required for bitcoin futures on cboe

the cost of transactions has stayed mostly constant when priced in bitcoin. Like the article says, why always convert back to the dollar price?

When it comes to Bitcoin, I think of Linux as an analogy. When it first emerged, many people questioned it's basic premise: "why is there a new operating system? Everyone uses Wind…

There was a story about this in Motherboard just the other day. Tl,dr— Metals and drugs are a big problem *edit: spelling https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8xnk/turns-ou…

no, it's not trivial, but you can just follow these steps. https://glacierprotocol.org

It’s a mind virus breaking out to infect all the world’s humans

This is already happening. For example Coinbases’s new COO is ex-Ameritrade

This is such a fascinating (and disturbing) situation. And quite mysterious. High frequency ultrasound is used routinely in medicine and has never been shown to change brain tissue…

Back in 2012/2013 there was something called "Mt Gox codes". It was a USD transfer mechanism that was supported by Gox, btc-e, early bitfinex and others. You could magically and in…

agreed. There are many examples of attempts to put into dialog these different traditions of postmodernism vs humanism/analytic rationality: The Foucault/Chompsky debate: https://w…

I also think it could be seen as realpolitik. I depends on how strongly you take "we create our own reality". Even Postmodernism has a kind of 'classical' version that emerges hist…

That is a fantastic quote from a truly great American thinker. You could add to it the quote from Ron Suskind's article from an unnamed Bush administration official: "The aide said…

$1M doesn't buy you the time of day where I live in northern Brooklyn. And it's $1250 minimum per person in a rental share, often more.

The Ethereum Foundation owns and controls the trademarks of Ethereum. While they cannot dictate the code the various participants on the network run, they get to explicitly decide …

"The advent of photography freed painting from the task of verisimilitude, opening the door to a world of abstraction."

But you are essentially staking "off chain" by buying the gear in fiat money. So there is a built-in exchange rate arbitrage. And the on-chain velocity of value is not slowed down.…

Basically yes. CB has said that they won't support the coin.

This is very similar to the ripple pre-cursor called ripplepay. A clear explanation of that can be found here. https://classic.ripplepay.com/about/

Related work: The artist Jason Salavon is well-known for making work using a software-driven frame averaging technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Salavon Using analog tec…

This is an interesting and relevant point. However, I believe that the expectation of privacy could still be arguably maintained because of the contractual relationship between the…

Namecoin has a number of innovations. It's the first 'alt-coin' fork from Bitcoin, and it pioneered the technique of "merge mining" where a miner could do Proof of Work on both the…

We built this with glimmer. https://mcast.io/katgraham-exclusives/

This doesn't apply to Rollins and Black Flag. The work they did got better and better, more and more innovative, culminating in 1984 with the release of both "My War" and "Slip it …