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I've only followed Archegos from afar, but I see your point. Basically it all boils down to people's trust in Tether, which if lost could cause a ripple effect and massive dump of …

Sorry, for some reason I can't edit my own comment, so adding a new one. The $1Tn figure is Market Cap; I was looking at these charts but indeed they show market cap not capital in…

You're correct, sorry my bad. I was looking at these charts but indeed they show market cap not capital influx: https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/

Perhaps a controversial view, but why does this matter? I was having this debate with a friend a few weeks back. Tether was the first crypto coin pegged to a fiat currency, but now…

That's a good question and I've seen it partially answered on their Telegram group: Maiar offers the option to back up your private key to an off-chain location (eg. Google Drive),…

TLDR - https://github.com/ElrondNetwork I've been following Elrond's progress for a few months now, with great interest. Some key core features: - Their blockchain application itse…

Is anybody aware of similar reports / plans from financial entities in other countries? EDIT - I see this particular report was posted on HN and heavily discussed when originally p…

You probably need some 'cooldown time' to take the emotion out of that selection process :) I also take thousands of pics when travelling...well used to anyway before Covid. Then I…

To paraphrase John Maynard Keynes: If you owe the bank 1$ million, it owns you but if you owe the bank 1$ trillion, you own the bank. My guess is all banks have invested heavily in…

This is great, thanks for sharing. It makes me think that as engineers eager to fix problems or building stuff we sometimes go for the solution we are most used to from past experi…

Also using an alternative line an abrasive cable would not make sense either. If friction causes it to tear it would need complete replacing, which would be plenty $$$. Instead, wi…

Any idea why they've set the Genesis start time at 23sec past 12PM? Perhaps just my OCD, but why not kick it off at 12 sharp rather than wait for [$random_number == 23] seconds?

It's not just the immense traffic throughput, but also consider that some of these routers [0] can do line-rate MACsec encryption at 400Gbps on every port. This kind of horsepower …

Could fracking be used here to pump all this contaminated water deep beneath the aquifer and let the rock naturally filter it out?

Sorry, I haven't found a serious technical source of blockchain/crypto news either and I suspect this is because there are (still) few people that understand cryptos in depth, as w…

I think with Eth2 we're possibly seeing a the first attempt to address the Innovator's Dilemma[0] in the blockchain environment. I've been following the Eth2 progress for a few mon…