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Why sites continue to do this is beyond me. But, fortunately, disabling auto-playing in Firefox is actually not that hard. about:config, then set "media.autoplay.enabled" to false. Done.
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An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
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Re: An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
#72Aside from the discussion on Tethers I am sure this is not going to stop cryptocurrency buffs from talking/selling another round of "stable" coins. The unfortunate thing is time and again same old story is presented about either: how the company releasing the coins will act as lender/buyer of last resort or how "markets" will prevent the peg from going out of whack. The former logic forgets about how it puts a lot of…
> how "markets" will prevent the peg from going out of whack. One only needs to read about Long-Term Capital Management to see how flawed this is.
If anyone is looking for books to read during holiday down time, they could do worse than 'Liar's Poker' [0], followed by 'When Genius Failed' [1], following the career of John Meriwether and the rise and fall of LTCM.
[0] 'Liar's Poker', Michael Lewis
[1] 'When Genius Failed', Roger Lowenstein
For a 'light reading intro to finance' trilogy, add 'A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation', by Richard Bookstaber.
Re: An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why sites continue to do this is beyond me. But, fortunately, disabling auto-playing in Firefox is actually not that hard. about:config, then set "media.autoplay.enabled" to false. Done.
Yes, but I do want YouTube and other sites to autoplay.
yepp youtube then no longer even works
Re: An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you give me the tldr what a normal person would use this for or what it accomplishes?
For a normal person/business to ever use a cryptocurrency, there needs to be one that is price stable. Meaning it's going to be worth the same $ tomorrow that it's worth today. Imagine if you could send money anywhere, with almost no fees. That was the dream of bitcoin, but currently bitcoin fees are crazy high, and the community isn't close to solving it yet. Ethereum seems to be more scalable and has a benevolent d…
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Re: An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
This "FUD" could be easily dismissed by showing a bank account statement containing these $814M. The fact that Bitfinex doesn't do that means they have something to hide or are in serious trouble.
No, it's pretty normal for private companies not to share that kind of data.
Just so that I'm clear:
- Skepticism about the tether reserves is FUD,
- meaning that we should believe it is there.
- But we cannot ask for proof of an easily verifiable claim that the money exists, because certainty that it exists is a trade secret.
Is this an accurate reflection of your position?
Re: An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you give me the tldr what a normal person would use this for or what it accomplishes?
For a normal person/business to ever use a cryptocurrency, there needs to be one that is price stable. Meaning it's going to be worth the same $ tomorrow that it's worth today. Imagine if you could send money anywhere, with almost no fees. That was the dream of bitcoin, but currently bitcoin fees are crazy high, and the community isn't close to solving it yet. Ethereum seems to be more scalable and has a benevolent d…
BTC fees are crazy high because the coins value is crazy high if I go back and look at some of my transactions when BTC was around $200. today, the low transactions fees of yesteryear are now $15-$20. I think that's the flaw in bitcoin, greed took over and it became something it shouldn't have. miners kept buying more expensive asics to edge out the next guy because of greed and it became an arms race. my asic mining career lasted a whole of several months before I stopped cause I saw the people making money at the time were hardware sellers, pool operators, etc. miners still made money but in small margins. that is until BTC exploded now the coins I mined are worth over $50,000 on an investment of $3,000 of miners ($30,000 of which is still retained). Now I undderstand that miners aren't the entire reason for BTC price increase but I believe they have their share in it.
I think cryptocurrencies like IOTA (I do not currently own a position in IOTA but will be in the near future, hopefully.) have a place with no network fees and primarily no miners. but I still see the greed in messageboards "Buy more!, Eat away at sell walls" yada yada. very sad.
I think it'd be cool if there was a coin that had a fixedish price like tether although I won't touch tether since I don't know a lot about it other than some kind of theft, and the fact that bitfinex doesn't accept U.S customers which doesn't really affect my purchasing of tether but all the same I'd rather distance myself from them. I have been looking at BNB since I do use binance exchange but it's a volatile currency as well from looks of it. and the fact they are destroying them each quarter from what I understand based on their profits or something will lead to shorter supply and more demand since it can be used to lessen exchange fees
I forgot exactly where I was going with this whole thing so I'm just gonna go buy virtual kitties with ETH
Re: An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but I do want YouTube and other sites to autoplay.
yepp youtube then no longer even works
there are million of front ends for youtube with better search which will work woth autoplay off. plus they show the emded version of videos that usually have less ads (because advertisers rightly deny their ads out of the main domain)
or you could just use uMatrix and whitelist sites where you want video to play
Re: An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
yepp youtube then no longer even works
there are million of front ends for youtube with better search which will work woth autoplay off. plus they show the emded version of videos that usually have less ads (because advertisers rightly deny their ads out of the main domain) or you could just use uMatrix and whitelist sites where you want video to play
Good shout, thanks. Can you point to any good YouTube frontends? I just use MPV with sites, but I could do with good search/related functionality.
Re: An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
#79WARNING: Auto-playing video with possibly loud sound.
Off-topic, but Firefox offers the option to turn off auto-play. My go-to for news browsing.
Re: An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it's pretty normal for private companies not to share that kind of data.
Just so that I'm clear: - Skepticism about the tether reserves is FUD, - meaning that we should believe it is there. - But we cannot ask for proof of an easily verifiable claim that the money exists, because certainty that it exists is a trade secret. Is this an accurate reflection of your position?
I'm merely pointing out that the majority of the fear surrounding this issue seems to originate from one person with an axe to grind.