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Alternate discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27208119

Some highlights that stood out: - Range positioning for your capital. In the sweet spot, there is higher fee returns but higher impermanent loss (IL). - Range orders are possible. …

It is, which is how you know it is not a real risk.

The argument on the other side is that this is a matter of what's good for society in the long-term. For example, supporting a law that says "let's take all the money of class X an…

There's Lynn Saxon's book The Naked Bonobo that debunks a lot of popular myths about Bonobos - https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Bonobo-Lynn-Saxon/dp/1523945516 To the parent's comment …

How can you use something that isn't built to build the same thing unless you're using a time machine? I suppose once Colony is in production, you can create a Colony clone using C…

It sound similar to what you do with one important distinction. "Freelancers" (I am using this term loosely since it seems like your organization gives you much more flexibility th…

Instead of such a knee-jerk reaction to crypto, perhaps you can ask if the crypto token involved makes sense in this use case. If it doesn't, like in 99% of the cases, you can dism…

For some comparison, here's how the costs stack up: Lyft: $1 billion gross bookings, $130 million loss. Loss of $0.13 per dollar of gross bookings. Uber: $8.25 billion gross bookin…

This is very well put. Thanks for writing it and explaining the way you did.

Bitcoin has moved away from the Longest Chain Rule to the blockchain with the most cumulative Proof of Work as what the nodes recognize as valid blockchain.

Who wants VC funding when you can raise 8 figures in an ICO! /s

A big problem with this strategy is that presumably you're buying the coins after they've had a huge run-up and gone into the top 50. Since you aren't doing any type of research in…

Does Bitcoin's simple use case of a scarce digital commodity count? It's not that useful in the US/Western Europe but is genuinely useful in certain countries like Venezuela where …

I am curious to know what types of "big big risk" POS presents. As far as I can tell, there are several POS cryptocurrencies today and they seem to work fine. The Ethereum team cla…

This article isn't written by Buterin.

You can check the status here: https://status.coinbase.com/

Presumably, this is the premise behind T0 [1] in that it would allow beneficial owners, instead of brokers, to be able to lend their securities to short-sellers. In that case, ther…

You're assuming the blockchain would work similar to Bitcoin, where every 'trade' (transfer) is a settlement, written into the blockchain. While this is the holy grail, you've righ…