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oillio
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Comment #34723804
Awesome movie. The cinematography is beautiful
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Comment #33994672
I hate to be a hater but, this is so skeuomorphic I would just rather use a physical breadboard
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Comment #28884562
If Tether holders were fleeing, they would be going into other stablecoins like USDC, not BTC.
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Comment #28884547
The rumor is the backer is using the reserves to trade crypto. You won't ever see an attack on Teather during a crypto bull run as the reserves will be strong. In the depths of a c…
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Comment #26106494
I am really trying not to sound like a GCP fanboy, however: I have never heard anyone say that the AWS toolset was anything but "an amalgam of individual projects developed separat…
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Comment #26106347
You could enter your basis when you transfer coins into the account. This is how it works with other assets. If you transfer stocks between brokerage accounts, they communicate the…
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Comment #26106271
Is this a long term solution? Or do you plan on selling Bitcoin to pay back the loan when you think we are near the top?
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Comment #26106218
For a view on what this looks like from a legal standpoint check out the MtGox collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox
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Comment #26106130
Bitcoin futures are running at about 25% per annum carry. They absolutely can find counterparties to take that trade, but it would be much more efficient to trade in the spot marke…
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Comment #26068766
What did you expect the response to be. Should they have said, "No we don't have that, you should probably just use AWS"? They didn't have exactly what you wanted so provided a wor…
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Comment #25496959
Have you verified the valuation of the common stock the company is reporting to the IRS? The common stock (what you probably get for your options) is usually valued at significantl…
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Comment #25462218
Whatever well respected means to you, there is probably someone that meets it. If you like old guard financial entities, Fidelity has a custody service. If you want an entity that …
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Comment #25423127
Try open hand warmers designed to warm the blood on the top of your hand as it flows into your fingers. In my experience, these work great at keeping my hands warm while not reduci…
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Comment #25414176
BCC meaning Bitcoin Cash? It is commonly called BCH now. They are still around, with a few miners. They had a few forks which split and degraded their community significantly. It i…
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Comment #25413762
In other words: Every day bitcoin survives its safety as an investment grows a little bit.
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Comment #25413732
Many of the people that originally saw Bitcoin as a payment processor (as digital cash) moved on to Bitcoin Cash. The scalability issues were evident from the beginning. The idea o…
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Comment #25413632
Shareholders were informed of the plan well ahead of the bitcoin purchases. They were offered the chance to sell their shares. Existing shareholders have proven they are onboard wi…
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Comment #25413616
I totally agree with you at the surface, and Microstrategy has been officially saying similar. However, the company is starting to look more and more like a Bitcoin ETF. The CEO is…
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Comment #25413573
Microstrategy is not storing their own bitcoin. There are well respected custody solutions available these days. Execution is outsourced and insured, Microstrategy is bearing very …
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Comment #25413541
The word "risk" is overloaded in finance, unfortunately. Your usage is not affected by the price being near all time highs. The parent's use is affected.
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Comment #25413525
Did investors really sell because of this news? It just so happened that bitcoin dropped about 5% on the same day. Microstrategy is quickly turning into a defacto bitcoin ETF. Mayb…
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Comment #25413437
I don't really understand the focus on the 20% thing. I have worked at different sized tech companies, from startup to medium sized, to giant. And I have worked in several capaciti…
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Comment #25393882
I agree, beautiful campus. Fun fact: the buildings were designed to resemble the symbol for databases in logical diagrams. https://images.app.goo.gl/ybduLEGuAFxeGaL88
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Comment #25154180
Those are iconic. The difference between being possible and being cost effective.
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Comment #24712843
A functional coding technique is strictly more powerful. Say we want to reuse your cat search code. Sometimes we want to log it, and sometimes we want to export it as a different d…