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I failed basic reading comprehension. The first sentence of the abstract clearly says "It has recently been shown that the mere presence of one’s own smartphone on the desk impairs…

It‘s easy enough to believe, but newer research says that the mere presence of a smartphone does not have a measurable effect on cognitive function. https://www.sciencedirect.com/s…

Maybe they invented their holdings of commercial paper as well. Pretending to be fully backed by USD didn't work out, so now they pretend to hold equivalent assets.

Maybe a bank run on Tether for some other reason than the SEC? It would require a lot of people to lose trust in Tether at the same time, which surprisingly still doesn't look like…

To fund a Lightning channel you have to pay fees on the Bitcoin network, which can get quite high. Up to 50 USD during times of high demand. To send to someone who's offline the re…

I always hoped that Bitcoin would become "the people's currency" but currently it does not work as cash anymore. Lightning might become great, but the engineering needed just to se…

Yes please, an API! Also there's a recurring theme/running gag on NTS Radio that it's faster to find releases on Bandcamp through Google than through the internal search. I've witn…

Besides the obvious speed, Sublime has the best-looking font rendering of all editors. Might be a minor detail, but all text always looks great.

Yeah those are hard to find. One of my favorite games is “Nuclear Throne Together”, although it is quite hard, and more players make it much harder. A current good and accessible o…

The same way I organize my whole life, everything is either new and unprocessed, being processed, or done. - unprocessed, unsorted, new information: /Downloads - currently being pr…

Nearly all „large“ cities in Switzerland now have fibre. Symmetrical 1GBit/s is pretty much standard, price is between 60 and 120 CHF (about 60-120 USD) You can run anything on it …

I’m a beginner with python as my first language. I used it to write an arbitrage trading bot. I learned python and asyncio just for this, and it is working as intended. Asyncio wit…

Miners are nodes and therefore verifying transactions, and they're the only nodes writing transactions to the blockchain. Non-mining nodes can only verify transactions for themselv…

There is no "intrinsic value", but the subjective value of Bitcoin is that could be a better money than any money that has existed so far. Strictly speaking "intrinsic value" does …

Yes, the number of coins in circulation decreases over time. But the precision can be increased from the current 8 decimals. Even if all but 1 Satoshi/0.00000001 BTC is lost, it co…

Do not leave coins on an exchange. Any digital currency is only yours if you control the private keys. All recommendations are for Bitcoin. Most secure: A hardware wallet like the …

There is utility in Bitcoins ability to transfer value worldwide, without middlemen, only requiring a cheap smartphone. Strictly speaking nothing has "intrinsic" value, but Bitcoin…

They do seem to have at least 82k left, visible on the blockchain and verified by their "spokesperson" here: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4wiw3q/bitfinex_has_72...

https://btcvol.info/ shows the volatility over the last few years. Still very wild, but looks like it is decreasing.

Probably "not at all". I can only assume that the number of buyers using both Bitcoin and a VPN to buy cheaper games is too small to worry about.