cos people have nothing else to spend their money on?
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Dayum. That's about as much as I earn from my fiat in a year!
There goes the neighbourhood.
Good to see grid computing brought back from the dead.
Bye bye impartiality
The only difference being Buterin won't go to jail for building his network when Assange probably will.
There is an ongoing concentration of power - as seen on many other networks too. This is a worrying sign.
Crypto's killer use case: To allow people to get their rocks off without receiving a bank statement at the end of the month.
What ever next? Food on the blockchain? Oh wait, they've done that already.
"Locked up, they won't let me outtt."
Fuck VR, it's all about blockchain.
Ha, I knew it wouldn't take long for web 2 to get in on the web 3 act.
My money is always on China.
Can't believe it. And here they were bitching about Libra all this time. Typical.
Best piece of reporting I've ever read.
My money's on China. After Libra hearings, they don't stand a chance.
I think so. It's why I'm getting out of crypto. Too many shady deals shading up the place. It's shady.
I think I'd rather have a government with decades of fiscal management, bad or otherwise look after money than an organisation that has absolutely no accountability whatsoever.
Give it three years.
I know everything about bitcoin and I love it.
What goes around, comes around! hahahahah
Fuck the regulators, build a brand new economy!
"“proof of space and time”—an alternative to the energy-guzzling proof of work that underpins networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum that instead relies on the excess storage space on hard drives to verify its blockchain." Man that sounds exciting!
oh man, I'm in New York and I've got Tethers. Time to pull the eject cord (on both)
I think anyone who hears 'diamond' and 'crypto' in the same sentence and doesn't think it's a ponzi scheme needs their head checked.
I think his response to questions at Oxford University is all the proof you need. https://decryptmedia.com/6834/craig-wright-faces-scrutiny-at...
This is make or break for Augur I reckon.
no idea they had some guy squeezing cash out of the foundation
Surely it just passes the buck to the MakerDAO token holders? Feels like a case of tragedy of the commons.
Does this mean GPU prices are going up again. * groan