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$105B Electronics Giant Sony to Launch New Bitcoin Exchange

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Re: $105B Electronics Giant Sony to Launch New Bitcoin Exchange

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Post by DaoVeles »

mandmandam wrote: post #5
ado__dev wrote: post #2

What year is it?

Right? I'm really not sure there has ever been such insane hype around such outdated technology. The tech for zero mining, zero fee, sub second transfer, and 'quantum resistant' decentralized transfer has been around for like 8 years. This is like building a whale-oil station next to a solar farm. The fuck you doing Sony?

Being Sony. Unfortunately, the Sony of the 1960-2000's seems to long gone now. Apart from Playstation and their headphones, they just don't have the mind share or innovative spark any more. And even Playstation is starting to a look a little odd as they have continued to moved exclusives over the PC.

Maybe their movie businesses are still doing well?

Re: $105B Electronics Giant Sony to Launch New Bitcoin Exchange

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Post by 0xcde4c3db »

TheDudeMan wrote: post #30
0xcde4c3db wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The foremost thing about Bitcoin that is censorship-resistant is the ledger itself, which is a boon to anyone interested in tracking transactions.

Yes, it is a public ledger. This ensures that no inflation is occurring (other than the expected decreasing miner subsidy).

It also ensures a rich source of data for those who are interested in punishing publishers of wrongthink (aka "censors"). I'm not sure what inflation has to do with censorship.

Re: $105B Electronics Giant Sony to Launch New Bitcoin Exchange

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Post by m3kw9 »

crazygringo wrote: post #23

"$105B Electronics Giant Sony" is such a bizarre thing to put in a headline. Everybody knows who Sony is. And their current exact market cap is utterly irrelevant to the article. Is this some type of subliminal editorial ploy to (falsely) suggest that the exchange would similarly handle hundreds of billions, or something?

Bitcoin price pump when ever they can

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Post by ProAm »

crazygringo wrote: post #23

"$105B Electronics Giant Sony" is such a bizarre thing to put in a headline. Everybody knows who Sony is. And their current exact market cap is utterly irrelevant to the article. Is this some type of subliminal editorial ploy to (falsely) suggest that the exchange would similarly handle hundreds of billions, or something?

In actuality the headline was probably written by AI.

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Post by masspro »

pitaj wrote: post #11
cheema33 wrote: post #6

And Sony's decline continues. This move reeks of desperation. I used to buy a lot of Sony products. Lately. Zilch. I know they still make some movies and PS5. But, man, they used to be so much bigger than that.

They make good headphones too. I think that's the only Sony hardware in my house.

I bought a Sony TV a couple days ago. It’s just a Samsung panel identical to a current Samsung TV but placed into Sony innards. Which means no stupid terrible Samsung software! That’s really why I chose it. So seeing this comment tree points out the irony that the value of Sony for me was that it’s essentially repackaging someone else’s known-good product.

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Post by tocs3 »

crazygringo wrote: post #23

"$105B Electronics Giant Sony" is such a bizarre thing to put in a headline. Everybody knows who Sony is. And their current exact market cap is utterly irrelevant to the article. Is this some type of subliminal editorial ploy to (falsely) suggest that the exchange would similarly handle hundreds of billions, or something?

It is a little strange. I had to stop and think if there is a non $105B Electronic Giant.
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