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And here's Peter later talking about his doubts due to the AMT backdoor, with responses from Zooko.

https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/861726383730503680

Not being that familiar with WoW, wouldn't it be classed as income more than speculation? These people grinded away at a game and earned "gold", now they want to convert it into a different currency.

Doesn't seem speculative for the people playing the game. Though for a trader it is.

Fail to see the difference between buy/sells on the company platform compared to a third party. Both could be used for speculation.

Certainly minimises any anger for the 90m golden parachute given to the person at the helm now bailing out.

Lots? Name one ico over $1m that has run off with others money?

Plenty of raisings based on spurious concepts but yet to see one actually go full scam, essentially these people have bs programming jobs for a few years until they admit their product is not desirable to anyone.

Most will fail, but at the very least the world will get some open source software from it.

More than could be said for all the dodgy mining explorers I've invested in.

Automatically assume anyone who uses all caps mid sentence hasnt thought through their point and is internet rambling. I stop reading everytime.

Quite sure there's a few of us, if you need to emphasise anything perhaps being more succinct is better than subscribing to this form of communication.

Plenty of western countries recently seem to realise that its far cheapear to take in educated immigrants rather than pay the cost of raising and educating a child. It's most certainly a trend.

Not justifying it, simply observing.

Virtually a prerequisite for anyone doing long range first person flying legally.

No proof whatsoever, but the ceremony and who was involved was most certainly known ahead of time.

Is prudence not prudent in matters such as these?

I stand corrected.

Someone is obviously in the wrong here, have doubts whatsapp would ruin their business for a single country.

Messages are e2e, was under the impression that calls aren't yet.

They've been known to use pocket calculators for ciphers and transmit over radio frequencies digit by digit.

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." - Henry Ford

real money

Posit that most of society doesn't understand how money is created and destroyed. "Real money" is a falsehood as far as most human beings see it.

Cashless has many benefits, watching this phenomenon play out it my home country (quite sure we have more cashless then Sverige), why should typical cash businesses like hairdressers get huge tax benefits from being cash only over the business next door?

Its undeniable that some businesses gain huge advantage from avoiding cards.

If you have a problem with taxation then address that with the powers that be rather than supporting those who sidestep the law at the expense of everyone else.

Id agree on the taste part. Never had bison, but still that same gamey taste, certainly stronger than venison.

As for cooking, no, terribly dangerous advice. Cook kangaroo well regardless of what butchers and cooking shows tell you.

Kangaroo has somewhere near 20x the bacterial levels of raw chicken. It's wild hunted meat that's been commercialised. Perfectly fine if you eat it soon after being killed, but no sold roo in Australia falls into that category.

https://www.foodsafety.com.au/news/food-safety-issues-affect...

There's plenty of ways to keep meat tender while cooking it well, pressure cooking does an amazing job.

Shouldnt all fresh food be of variable market price?

Seems quite evironmentally unfriendly to subside out of season food solely to appease picky customers.

Eating local in-season food should be promoted by market mechanisms.

My thoughts exactly, wondering why so many here are saying they are equivalent? PWA disk usage has tiny limits.

For the curious: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/instant-and-o...

An advancement in supercapaitors or other storage types seems inevitable to win the race.

Current battery tech is variations on a century old concept and lacking real scalability without devastating environmental effects.

Generation is largely solved, storage and balancing electrical grids is the only problem left.

Rail energy storage making claims of half the price of pumped hydro: http://www.aresnorthamerica.com

That's quite a complex plan, especially if the phone in question is making http requests and taking calls.

Perhaps it is money that is worth little, rather than many asset classes being overvalued?

He said it was a bubble at $800 too.

Is this the economist equivalent of the martingale strategy?

You don't need money to use testnets, which particular tech are you interested in? Happy to point you in the relevant direction.

Heres free coins for Ethereums ropsten testnet

http://faucet.ropsten.be:3001

Can i note begging is considered bad form around most forums also. There's plenty of solutions to your problems. It just requires some effort on your part.

Using most crypto projects is on the scale of cents if anything at all to try, the decentralised storage options offer 25 gb free.

Regardless,anything half decent likely has a testnet running where you can play around.

Read all the marketing in the world, but you won't see how decentralised systems fair against their centralised competitors until you try.

One thing that I rarely hear about crypto-currencies is the environmental impact

That's funny, it seems to be raised in every single hn cryptocurrency thread.

One thing I rarely see is a proper attempt to quantify co2 output. Electricity consumption is fairly well estimated, but environmental impact is not.

Would be interested to find one large industrial scale miner who actually has a negative impact on the scale that some talk about.

All the biggest I know of are located next to hydro dams and are 100% renewable.

It's rather naive to simply talk about electrity usage, nor all electricity is created equal.

100%.

Without a novel need,there's zero reason to make your own token simply for payments. That part has been solved.

Why not take payment in ethereum alone instead? The transaction is processed by the exact same miners whether it's a token or not.

whattomine.com

Unless you have free/ very cheap power, is likely not worth your time.

But virtually all mining is done near cheap renewable power.

People talk a lot about how much energy it uses, yet to see attempt at quantifying co2 emissions, they are likely quite low.

Putting on the tinfoil: cryptocurrecies are a defacto bounty for hash algorithms, bitcoin is excellent proof that sha2 and ripemd160 arent broken

Always amazed at some of the threads that pop up in that world.

"I invested 50k can someone pls explain how this works?"

You need 40 lines of code that was copy/pasted to make an erc20 token. The rest is just promises.

I think one day you'll look back and regret this post. Its still an early adopters phase.

Recent transaction sent $160m, the fee was $0.70, it was confirmed within minutes.

Not sure what to say if you can't see value there