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spottybanana

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    Comment #29498845

    Those P2P loans get also lost quite often. If you have transaction logs that show you making consistent 12% for years that would be quite interesting to many. Due to the nature of …

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    Comment #29428453

    Also have to be noted, that the change to make bucketloads of cash from shitcoin peddling is something the traditional corps can't offer. Yeah for sure something like sushiswap req…

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    Comment #29428339

    Do you think that guy that runs an organisation called "Hustle Fund" is that interested in those details.

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    Comment #29390509

    There for sure are tons of people willing to manage someones else business if you pay them well. However how talented or good they are is a totally different thing.

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    Comment #29389954

    Yeah, it is no wonder that a founder-CEO of a 70 billion dollar company is having very little negative interactions with about anyone. Personally I have became from poor ass bootst…

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    Comment #29378380

    After playing with earlier generation RPi's, my opinion was that they are useless crap, not performant and stable enough for my projects. But now I tried RPi4 8GB model, and I have…

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    Comment #29378129

    > Even a modest NUC will be way faster With the latest RPi 4 with 8GB ram, with an SSD drive, for my use cases I haven't found the performance problems at all. However I can totall…

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    Comment #29324658

    Just get born rich so you don't have to do anything. I think it is no-brainer that founders would prefer to have full control and ownership. If you manage to bootstrap a profitable…

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    Comment #28827218

    > I've seen sites start heavily censoring themselves because someone complained to Google and they pulled the ads. Stuff like this ruins the web. You mean my web is ruined because …

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    Comment #28797359

    I have been using LN quite a lot for casual payments in the last years. There have been a lot of small hiccups but recently it have been working very fluently for me.

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    Comment #28641506

    If you believe in free market capitalism, people should migrate from PoW to PoS coins, because PoS coins provide the same features with less expenses. In practice this won't happen…

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    Comment #28528244

    This is very good article. For many, after getting some kind of windfall, pitches start coming left and right. It is easy to think that angel investing is something normal rich peo…

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    Comment #28327586

    > You are justifying someone being paid $750m. No one needs that much money. No one. Why are you defending this? It's obscene. Yeah, he doesn't need it, but I am happy that he has …

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    Comment #28326433

    > My question is: how is Tim so productive that he does roughly 160,000 people’s work, or 1/8th of Foxconn’s total workforce? [2] /s Nobody has been making these productivity claim…

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    Comment #28326412

    He is already making society a better place by making products and services that people value. Charity isn't the only option for that.

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    Comment #28138838

    > (b) is why Bitcoin core development has stagnated. And that's fine if people just want it to be like gold, however Ethereum doesn't aspire to not evolve. How stagnated is Bitcoin…

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    Comment #28088787

    > A high level of quality in software is not important unless you're entering an already well-served market. I wish it was. Somewhat weird mindset. It is natural that when a new ma…

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    Comment #28077882

    In practice exchanges end up holding most of the crypto, and they will decide how to use the crypto in PoS. With PoW it looks like miners/pools will quite rarely work as exchanges,…

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    Comment #28005835

    I think the whole term "technical debt" has developed as a part of business and technical team negotiations. The technical team prefers to improve their own job comfort, doing task…

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    Comment #27688048

    > trillions in capital will be captured by the 0.01%. How is that different from the current situation?

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    Comment #27653538

    > The technology will float around, but the actual formal legal exchange of fiat for crypto should be banned. The opposite is pretty much happening, regulation. So government is li…

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    Comment #27653521

    What? I have used BTC for years and never had problem answering that honestly. I would argue the opposite, most BTC users are very straightforward investors, they bought BTC, maybe…

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    Comment #27653476

    > It feels like The Block isn't entirely sure what Binance can or can't do at the moment. I'm sure also Binance and the FCA aren't sure about that. The regulatory uncertainty in th…

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    Comment #27653458

    Bitcoin isn't that new thing any more, to me it looks like fiat holders have seen too many bitcoin holders gain significant value. Yes, there are also those that lose their BTC for…

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    Comment #27448058

    What the normal people will use in the beginning is going to be non-custodial LN based solution like strike. Minimal fees, easy to use. If you get a bit more, move to custodial LN …