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Wrong. NODEs (individual network participants) enforce the rules, not miners.

All In: "Haha OS-driven regex engine go brrrrr"

By the time it's severe, it's often too late: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1244717172871409666?s=20

Relevant: WTFHappenedIn1971.com

Answer: Our governments printed a shit-ton of money.

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/02/colorado-drones-myster...

No. There is no way for Bitcoin mining to "break SHA-256 and render it insecure". There isn't enough energy in the whole SUN to do that.

"Slow Database"-Flavored WASI Any time you see the word "blockchain" replace it with "Slow Database" in your head and see if it still makes sense.

Incerto series by Taleb

Asset inflation.

It makes perfect sense. If many people are trying to BUY USDT (increasing demand for USDT) the price of USDT will increase. Tether tries to prevent this by printing more USDT (incr…

This is inaccurate. Tether demand INCREASES when the cryptomarkets crash because traders want to escape to non-volatile assets. If everyone converts their crypto to USDT at the sam…

What does "capacity" mean in this context?

Lightning Network is not "developed by Blockstream". There are 3 primary teams that have contributed to the specification: ACINQ, Blockstream, and Lightning Labs. All of the projec…

This is how compound interest works. Why does this surprise anyone?

Public companies can issue more stock to public markets at any time. That stock would be priced at the market rate. If a company’s stock price tanks due to lack of demand, that is …

The GDP of Ecuador in 2014 (all time high) was $102.29B.

> Most people don't spend time on > thousands of websites. The author of this has absolutely no idea how modern advertising works.

Does this mean VirtualBox is dead soon as well?

None. You can be a productive ML engineer without understanding the math. Many elitist engineers here will downvote me, but its true. ML libraries that allow you to quickly get pro…