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Marius
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FIAT is still money, but it is dead money. #Bitcoin is alive and so are the people hodling it.
GM - I like the blockclock with all figures showing. Clear all the way through $ 1M-1 without losing the denominator. image
donation page (not offering Bitcoin/Lightning as payment option): "Would you like to cover the transaction fees?" me: nope
I like the Nokia 9500 a lot. First, everybody thought this was unnecessarily bulky and heavy for the functionality; until you opened it up that was.
There is a lot of talk about re-using heat of miners to keep us warm in winter or have a nice jacuzzi all year round. I love Bitcoin and I dedicate my resources to make it succeed. But I don't get it how heating homes has anything to do with mining Bitcoin. Yes, true it is a 1% benefit, alright. What we call "proff of work" could be called "proof of cost". As a participant in the network I want to see that miners are under water before earning the block reward and the fees (100 blocks later). I want to see proof they go broke if they don't play by the rules and hence don't earn the rewards. Imagine a scenario where the secondary uses ( like heating homes, jacuzzis, whatever) is fully justifying the electricity bill. Miners would be above water prior to the "Bitcoin thing". What would stop them from trying to cheat and build blocks with double-spends?
I found that there are no shortcuts. The more my life depends on stuff I don't understand, the less I feel at ease. For me, it was and is worth to spend the time to dig deep; sometimes, I return from my studies as a different person, most often as a happier.
Today, I stumbled over this ( talk by Yanis Varoufakis. Perhaps the powers behind the YouTube algorithms thought I needed a dose of that. I did think highly of YV; I thought it was unfortunate that he did not have the full support of his president and his people when he was finance minister in 2015. I thought he could have made a remarkable difference then. Now, this talk is disappointing in many ways. Bitcoin is quite possibly the best bullshit detector ever - SMH. Is Yanis Varoufakis aspiring to become Taleb-2? Why not have him debate @Saifedean Ammous, @Lyn Alden.
Organized a class reunion 40 years after finishing our matura (high-school). Everyone loved it. Someone has to organize it. Why not be the one if nobody else moved forward by September?
What is the most secure way to shift funds from USD on HSBC to Bitcoin ((really) asking for a friend)? Naturally, this will go to an "un-hosted wallet" (while passing my best to all "un-divorced marriages").
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