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Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by spookthesunset »

Frogolocalypse wrote: post #107
dsacco wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's tautological. Implicit in the question is a request for an explanation of why both are not to blame. If you don't believe Bitcoin has an enabling or encouraging effect on activity that is bad for the environment, why is that? Why is it more appropriate to shift blame entirely on the energy provider instead of the very energy inefficient process? Do you also suppose that we should reduce vehicle emissions by in…

> That's tautological. No it's not. I'm saying you can fix the problem by modifying one constraint. Fix the cost of energy, and you fix your problem with energy wastage. It will make absolutely zero difference to bitcoin what the price of energy is. If energy is more expensive, mining will reduce, and bitcoin difficulty resets to the lower mining hashrate. > Do you also suppose that we should reduce vehicle emissions…

What a cop out. So we have to increase energy prices so a bunch of greedy scammers can waste energy speculating on hot air?

Again. Give me a break...

Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by [deleted] »

mikepurvis wrote: post #89
chejazi wrote: post #3

People spend their entire lives focused on wealth accumulation. Bitcoin has endowed many people with financial means in a way completely orthogonal to their day-to-day work. Say what you will about bubbles, but this "fund manager's" perspective is healthy check on reality.

While true, as someone with a number of friends just now "getting into" bitcoin, I find the zero sum aspect of it troubling. Assuming a crash/correction is coming, most of the wealth that accrued to the early adopters will be at the expense of these later, less-informed "investors" who bought in thinking it was a no fail quick buck.

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Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by asciimo »

drcross wrote: post #16
almostApatriot1 wrote: post #10

It'd be nice if some of the money were used to make it easier for charities to convert to cash as quickly as possible. Bitcoin pointlessly consumes so much dirty energy, I imagine many environmental charities see bitcoin akin to blood money.

This meme needs to die. Keeping the lights on tens of thousands of banks and keeping hundred of thousands of servers running transaction processing cost a lot of electricity too. Efforts are underway to get rid of dirty energy because the costs of renewable and battery storage are so much cheaper that this is a non-issue.

And all the armored trucks, the parking meters, the security staff and equipment, the phone calls, the faxes, the mailed documents...

Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by goialoq »

mtpn wrote: post #104
giarc wrote: post #80

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I was educated in the 90's and not on a typewriter. I use two spaces. There's likely more at play than just typewriter vs non-typewriter.

The anecdote I heard was that the extra space made it more clear when sentences were ending based on how the fixed-width typeface would read. With proportional fonts the spacing is already clear enough with 1 space, and that has become the conventional thing. So adding the extra space creates too much space now. It certainly sends a signal to me that the person has absorbed a “rule”, but not its purpose, which I thin…

> With proportional fonts the spacing is already clear enough with 1 space.

That's your opinion, and a bizarre one at that, since one-space isn't any more clear in a proportional font than a non-proportional font. Proportional fonts help pack letters within a word, not pack words within/between sentences.

> It certainly sends a signal to me that the person has absorbed a “rule”, but not its purpose,

It sends a signal to me that a person looks for bizarre ways to feel superior to others, instead of trying to understand why someone behaves differently.

Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by daeken »

nfoz wrote: post #117
Frogolocalypse wrote: post #62

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I think that just shows the age of the person. I learned how to type correctly on a typewriter, and that is the way that we learned. It means, for me, that SN, like me, was educated in the 70's and 80's, and formally learned how to type. Disclosure : Am not satoshi.

Curious, what are the reasons to prefer one-space-after-period over two? Regardless of old or new medium, proportional or monospaced font, I find it more legible when there's more space between sentences. Sometimes periods find themselves within a sentence (especially in technical writing), so ideally that would have a different markup I guess. HTML frustrates me; I don't know why it defaults to collapsing spaces, wh…

The reduction of whitespace in HTML is there to allow you to split text as desired in the source file without adding unintentional newlines/tabs/whatever -- it all just gets collapsed to a single space. (Outside of pre-styled tags at least)

Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by nitinsingla0999 »

chaseadam17 wrote: post #67

Watsi cofounder here. We're extremely grateful for this support. It's going to enable us to help a lot of patients access healthcare. I also think it's great for the crypto community as a whole. Thank you, Pineapple!

I simply love Watsi, you guys are so transparent with your financials. I hope you guys start accepting cryptocurrencies soon.

Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by [deleted] »

bringtheaction wrote: post #55
funnelsgun wrote: post #49

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A couple of the folks I know are just HODLing until BTC hits $150,000. Most of them bought Bitcoin when it was a couple of $, haven’t bought Bitcoin since and are just waiting it out to see what happens.

Why $150,000 exactly? Because of what the market cap will be then?

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Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by Harelin »

bdcravens wrote: post #100
Frogolocalypse wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that just shows the age of the person. I learned how to type correctly on a typewriter, and that is the way that we learned. It means, for me, that SN, like me, was educated in the 70's and 80's, and formally learned how to type. Disclosure : Am not satoshi.

I learned on a typewriter (early 90's), and when I moved to a computer (I was poor and really didn't have access to one growing up) I initially used double spaces after the period, but at some point I switched.

I also went a long time double-spacing and can't remember when I made the switch. I don't think it was a conscious decision. Wonder what prompted it.

Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by randoramax »

frozenport wrote: post #115
nihonde wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s how markets work. Early adopters take risks that pay off when late-comers try to bet on a proven winner.

Another view is that markets are not about gambling but rather investing? For example, index matched funds grow because the economy of the world, as a whole, is growing.

That is the theory. The practice is that markets crash and people cannot retire anymore. A lot like gambling
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