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Unfortunately, pointing out the fact that this sort of faux scaling will lead to centralization is never going to be popular among the tech illiterates at this site who believe Rog…

LOL! I wasn't talking about guns, and no, guns are not safe, every year more and more guns are banned in this country. T he idea that guns are not being banned is just a lie that i…

I'm not being sarcastic in the least. I'm being downvoted because this is a site where critical thinking is not tolerated and it's overrun with millennials who have never had to us…

They delete content all the time... and they ban people all the time, without regard for whether they have done anything wrong. Of course, since they delete the content you can't s…

People are already leaving the country, and at an increasing rate. The rate of renouncements of US citizenship has been rising for the past 20 years but sharply under Obama. They h…

One of the great things about bitcoin is it gives libertarianism a business model... and it's right out of SEK3's New Libertarian Manifesto--which was written in the 1970s-- SEK ga…

I suspect money laundering is already there.... they don't care, its all selective prosecution anyway. The purpose of the laws is not to stop crimes, but to make so many things a c…

Your grandpa dies and you inherit his estate. There's a bunch of boxes and you go thru a lot of them until you get to one of his war stuff. It is too much and you put it aside. Yea…

Yes, it is a terrible idea for terrorists. And currently, bitcoin is too hard to use for terrorists or most criminals. You have to be relatively sophisticated. Yah, you may have go…

And freedom. Remember, freedom is scary. To the downvoters: Seriously it is. For example: Can you imagine what would happen if we allowed people to have bars? People are expected t…

Exactly, its' hugely popular in Venezuela and Zimbabwe and other places where government messes with peoples' money. But then, remember, Charles thinks that pepe is a nazi symbol! …

There are lots of reasons to be concerned about Tethers, formost of which is that they are centralized. But with the massive on boarding of new customers (coinbase releases custome…

This is a great policy, all exchanges should adopt it. If you can only buy bitcoin and only miners can sell it, everyone will make a lot of money! I’m kidding, of course. BTW- it t…

This isn't bitcoin you're looking at, this is an attack on bitcoin.

This repo is the financial institutions and "CEOs" pushing for an arbitrary change over the objections of the engineers, and in many cases their very own CTOs, and the travesty of …

Remember at this time the block size has already been increased up to a maximum of 3.7mb physical blocks. This is a large part of why there's discussion about what 2X means-- as co…

Interesting, this resonated with me. I'm a "conservative" from the view of modern liberals (strictly speaking I'm a classical liberal or libertarian- I support gay marriage, the en…

The implied power structure here is so typical. Way too many startup “CEOs” want to sit on their ass watching TV and drinking beer (eg going to conferences and drinking beer) while…

This is great advice. Any decent CTO will immediately be put off by this kind of interview for a “co-founder” and be spared working with someone who doesn’t know his circle of comp…

I don't think so... it slungshot around the sun, which implies that its in a very large sun oriented orbit. (eg: some random object passing bit for the first time would be likely o…

I wonder if there is a reward for the return of the painting? One could buy it and turn it in for the reward, effectively reward arbitrage. In fact, I would expect the legit owners…

Saw an analysis awhile back that over %60 of Ethereum transactions are from a mixer. So artificial.

Remember “net neutrality” is 800 pages of regulations, most of which enable spying and internet censorship... but was sold as “net neutrality” to quell protest. Regulations are alw…

Startup Options are already broken-- no liquidity, terrible employee hostile terms (eg: 1 year cliff, losing 90 days after leaving unless you come up with $xx,xxx to exercise optio…