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I also like Dan Luu's take (starting with a Joel Spolsky quote) “Find the dependencies — and eliminate them.” When you're working on a really, really good team with great programme…

I'd start with saying "thank you" :-)

Given your skepticism, if you want to apply your studies this might be relevant to your interests: https://www.skepticoin.org/

Is TFA specific enough for you? It appears to be about the inevitable outcome of imitating banks in an unregulated context. A top level comment here is about the outcry for regulat…

But cryptocurrency's answer is usually not "how can we do better" but "how can we repeat the same mistakes in a shorter time span?"

"They are doing it too" is a favorite argument of crypto-enthousiasts. I'd argue the answer here is not more madness (crypto), but a serious attempt to fix the traditional financia…

I wrote Skepticoin as a serious parody of Bitcoin. Articles like these about the "state of the art" of cryptocurrency make me wonder: would a parody of a more "modern" cryptocurren…

Because plants don't grow from heat, but from light

I'm using skepticoin for something other than gambling or illegal activities... namely to prove that cryptocurrency is nonsense.

Just think what happened with PCs between 1975 and 1987... that's also 12 years

We haven't properly covered the more advanced layers of bullshit yet but we're getting there: https://github.com/skepticoin/skepticoin/blob/master/docs/pa... for details on the par…

0 Skepticoin = 0 bitcoin!

What do you mean? Skepticoin is the future of cryptocurrency!

Pizza I'm not sure but a bag of tulip bulbs was bought for 10,000: https://github.com/skepticoin/explorer/blob/master/b0099d84d...

You've understood perfectly well. The confusion stems from thinking others have the same level of understanding.

This is why I've minted the "White House" NFT on the Skepticoin blockchain: https://github.com/skepticoin/explorer/blob/master/00038cce6... 'To own the SKEPTI from this transaction…

This seems like a dangerous bet to make... my take on the NFT "market" is that it's money laundering, wash trading (inflating prices to attract suckers to the market) and perhaps i…

"This is good for bitcoin"

This is also why Skepticoin cannot be cloned: the clones (cynicalcoin, sarcastocoin etc) are simililar, but they're not "the skepticoin". In this way, the supply of skepticoin is s…

Let's shift this one level up: Simple. Bitcoin is an asset that is not used as currency but provides the holder with certain desired benefits and the asset can be liquidated if nee…

It used to be that enthusiasts could claim "currency of the future", but a lot of time has passed and that future simply hasn't come. In fact, Bitcoin's top utility is already far …

1.The term you're looking for is "naturally occurring Ponzi scheme" https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/19358 2. I literally don't know what this means. If it drops be…

I heard about bitcoin first right here on HN, and I thought today would be a good day to return the favor. Let me know if you have any questions.