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Fortunately, no one is forcing anyone to adopt Bitcoin, if the features are undesirable. > Deflationary currencies are dangerous. Inflation is a feature, not a bug. You may be righ…

PoS lacks fairness. To participate in PoS, you need an existing stash of coins, which is inaccessible for many individuals from countries where cryptocurrencies are outlawed. Not f…

Once you understand Bitcoin, there's no way why you'd go back to the legacy system. It's not Bitcoiners getting freaking rich; it's them adopting a superior store of value that is …

Microstrategy's $425M buy order was brokered by Coinbase, and it didn't shoot up the price. Anyway, exchanges will usually deny placing such large orders. Institutions use OTC desk…

> Chase is pretty good ... I'm sure Chase provides great services, but isn't it like a first-world bank? They have high minimum-balance requirements and fees in most countries. > M…

In other news, Coinbase filed for an IPO. Of course you can get your money. It's near-instant with at least the popular exchanges.

To be honest, I'm just tired with my bank. All they care about is opening new accounts, and selling financial products to people who don't need them. They custody your money, but i…

Learn web3.js and build dapps. You already have most of the requisite skills under your belt.

Bitcoin provided the world a way to transfer value over the internet, that's censorship resistant and completely trustless. If that's not disruptive, I don't know what is. GPT-3 is…

That moment when you submit a very long comment on GitHub, and realise that it is down. :(

Soon to be used as a startup name generator.

At my previous job, in a legal-tech company, we used Woleet to build a copyright protection product for intellectual property. However, I believe IPFS [1] is a superior solution fo…

It's also useful to point out that Kashmir was neither a part of India nor Pakistan after independence from the British in 1947. It was only after Pakistan launched an operation to…

Meanwhile in Paris, you might be having a double masters in International Law, but still be earning 25% less than an entry-level Software Developer with just a Bachelor's degree. I…

> It was less than 500 square feet and had none of the above amenities [...] 500 square feet is already a luxury for most people living in Paris.

Even though this is a toy blockchain, it is essential to provide a Blockchain.verify() method to check the integrity of the blocks.

This seems to be a simple wrapper around subprocess, but I'm afraid it is not changing things dramatically. Overall, I don't agree that Sultan's syntax is any more Pythonic than su…

Can I use the Google sheet to find partners for my open source project (no monetary benefit)?