Hands up who is going with this just because theymos has backed it himself? I’m going to give it a miss myself for now, maybe I’m being stupid but I can always buy in at a later date if it’s making obvious positive steps. Edit - I’m waiting for the ‘I downloaded a fake Grin wallet that contained malware & somebody stole all my bitcoin’ threads  theymos' backing helped, however I have already heard of Grin from other Aeon supporters last year and I immediately found it interesting because Mimble Wimble had another implementation on privacy. I am supporting the project by running a node and I do not hold any grins at present. I reckon we need more privacy solutions created in the cryptospace but for mainstream usage to keep the people safe from government intrusion that limit our freedom. |
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This article might have another clickbait for a title hehehe. Does the Federal Reserve of St. Louis' opinion in their released article share the opinion of the whole Federal Reserve? For those who do not know, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is only 1 of 12 regional Reserve banks in America.
In any case, where is the link to the Federal Reserve's article? I do not see it in ccn.com's article. Also, ccn's article appears like a hype story for Ethereum, Tron, Neo and Aelf.
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The fight was as boring as Manny's fight versus Floyd Mayweather, which Manny versus Adrien Broner was supposed to be the forerunner for Manny's rematch against Floyd.
There was maybe 1 or 2 exciting rounds for Manny, however it was not enough to argue for a Floyd versus Pacman 2, I reckon.
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Dana's only hope for this would be for TJ to win and begin creating his new storyboard. Max Holloway versus TJ Dillashaw for the UFC featherweight championship hehehe. It will be big for TJ if he wins. He would be holding 3 belts and maybe in the race for the best pound for pound.
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I am running Grin! The build was smooth except for installing the wrong version of rust. I did not listen and used apt get instead of rustup hehehe.
In any case, what exchange can we buy some grin but without KYC? I want to buy a small amount to begin using this complicated wallet hehe.
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I am sure that many are also asking the same question if Ripple can be categorized as a cryptocurrency in the first place. This is an ongoing debate with both sides sure of their stand. Well, as with anything, only time can tell which side will eventually win this debate. But as for me, I am leaning on the side doubting if Ripple should have a space in the cryptocurrency industry...maybe they should be acting like the modern PayPal and many would agree.
Well, it looks like the decision was made long ago and enough people believe it should be involved in this market. It's not as if it's going to be evicted. I will never understand it all the same. The securities question is the big one. I'm not sure when it's going to be cleared up or whether it's been cleared up. I was under the impression there's still an ongoing court case that may drag on for a long time to come. The longer it goes on for the more of the SEC's buddies make money and 'suggest' they avoid the security tag. XRP is not safe from being given the illegal security tag until we see it listed in exchanges like Coinbase hehehe. Coinbase has been requested to list XRP by holders since it began listing altcoins, however, I speculate that the SEC is making a good example of Ripple for the others not to break any securities laws. Also, but why was Stellar listed? |
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You think they posses wealth at all ? I mean you think a Venezuelan who is having trouble finding food is going to just put their "wealth" into bitcoin somehow ? This is a whole country that lost weight because of how poor they are, do you really think all they care about is money at this moment ? I mean think about it, even if you had all the money in the world, the country itself is running out of food constantly, whenever they manage to gather enough money together they try to get food from other countries and than it ends very quickly and they are hungry yet again.
People died of starvation there every single day since this problem started. You think those people should just put their money into bitcoin? What money, what wealth ? We are talking about people who die of starvation, there is no wealth there at all.
Venezuela is in a financial crisis, not in armageddon hehehe. @BitHodler. However, it might be safer to hold a volatile but valuable asset or currency than to hold a fiat currency that cannot hold any value or has no value. |
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Print and issue own centralized currency that the SEC might declare as an illegal security. Blame the government for the absence of the regulatory framework and maintain that it causes fear among potential users.
They should have thought well about what they were planning to do before doing it. Did Ripple hire lawyers specializing in securities fraud when they started their company? I reckon no. Almost no ICO or cryptocoin company did before 2016.
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Is there any video of Nick Szabo actually saying that central banks will adopt Bitcoin in 2019?
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Of course a smart guy like Nick Szabo couldn't make such a stupid prediction. The closest thing he said at the Israel Bitcoin Summit (after explaining vulnerability of the Swiss government) were the words quoted below: ... and so a more trust minimized solution is cryptocurrency, to hold some of your central bank reseves in cryptocurrency ... and then after explaining the physical vulnerability of gold reserves he added: ... so that's a very suboptimal solution to what you would hope to be trust minimized secure reserves, and you can do a lot better with cryptocurrency in that regard. You can see it for yourself following the link below (starting at 50:52). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rd_YYzf86MThe title is clickbait hehehe. He was only expressing an opinion on what might be a better solution for central banks, I reckon. However, because of the lacking regulatory framework, Nick Szabo knows this will not occur somewhere in the near future. |
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@btc_angela. It is the fight business. I reckon greed is the motivation for everyone involved, from the fighters themselves, their managers, trainers, agents and the promoters and everyone else who will make the money.
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@Theb. Agreed. I also speculate that Ben Askren will be dominating the welterweight division after Tyron moves up to the middleweight division.
I reckon Tyron will only have 1 fight left in welterweight after Kamaru Usman, and that will be versus Colby.
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What are the developers expecting by making the supply infinite and without having any block reward halving schedule? Was there an economic theory it was based on? Is Grin trying to catch up on bitcoin's distribution?
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Yes, similar to bitcoin. When a mining pool is close to having 51% of the hashrate, the community and the miners themselves call on some of them to mine in another mining pool.
Also, a similar situation can happen today without Asics.
By chance, sometimes I saw coins which had dominant hashrates (more than 60% or even higher) concentrated on one pool. Of course, it's rarely scenario when all hashrates of the pool controlled by one address/ group / farm, but it is always a very bad signal of potential serious Replay Attacks. This can also occur in GPU mined cryptocoins, however. 51% attacks are not exclusive incidents for Asic mined coins. Low hashrate coins are also easier to attack, that was why Aeon staying with the Asics might have been better. Also, replay attacks? I reckon you do not know what it means. Replay attacks only occur when there is a fork in the blockchain, where transactions in the original chain can be replayed in the forked chain. |
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@jibberwok. Are you from the Grin development team? For the benefit of the people who do not know the project, I would suggest that you create an ANN thread showing what the cryptocoin's technical features are, philosophy and the roadmap.
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We all know that Pacquiao is deserving to have a rematch against Floyd Mayweather the only problem is Mayweather isn't done hyping it up so there's that big money coming in, his fight against Tenshin Nasukawa didn't really add up to his fame anymore and the only thing makes him happy is the money behind it. The rematch may not be a reality anymore as I have seen news that Mikey Garcia is showing an interest against fighting Pacman himself and this will also be an interesting match to see if this happens.
I disagree, we do not know that. This is the fight where we can estimate if Manny is indeed deserving for a money fight against Floyd Mayweather. Floyd is undefeated, he is also considered to be greatest pound for pound boxer. He makes the decisions, not Manny. Manny does not deserve anything from Floyd unless he defeats Adrien Broner unanimously. Well we don't know that for sure. But remember way back 2015 Floyd Mayweather denied Pacquiao for years before the fight even officially happen, I won't be surprised if he is doing this confirming and denying just to get a lot of media attention to smoke up the fight. Yes Mayweather is the one who he will be fighting next but so as Manny Pacquiao, all boxers at the same time need to agree about the fight and its really not solely on Mayweather's decision whether a fight will happen or not, like I said earlier there are a lot of fighters lining up just to fight Pacquiao. Agreed. I was only implying that if negotiations for the fight begins, I reckon Floyd will have much more terms for Manny than Manny for Floyd because Floyd won the 1st fight and he is pound for pound the best fighter. However if Manny wins impressively on Saturday, it might change and they might level on even terms. |
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Agreed and this is also true for bitcoin. However, you know more hashrate is better. The blockchain clearly is more secure and not as vulnerable to attackers who go from coin to coin using their GPU mining farms or rent hash power from Nicehash to attack altcoins.
More hashrates will only be better if they are spreaded around diversified mining pools. Dominant hashrates concentrate on one or two pools are always a risk for network healthy condition. Yes, similar to bitcoin. When a mining pool is close to having 51% of the hashrate, the community and the miners themselves call on some of them to mine in another mining pool. Also, a similar situation can happen today without Asics. |
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@StarkInternational. Bad for the miners. The developers have the miners' income decreased by 33%. I reckon changes such as monetary policy must have consensus within the community and not imposed by developers.
@Dragonrage201. The hardfork will begin on January 17, only a 1 day delay.
i think its will great in longterm, becouse : price is marketcap / circulation suply. for example : 100 BLN $ in 5 year : price per ethereum will big after constantinople, becouse after now new ETH numbers will only 2 in block. and in future per eth price will big. i think so. after this, mining will hard, but i think : if i want secret transactions, i will use for transactions ETH and not DASH. its oportunity for ETHereum. An advice for you and everyone reading this. If you want secret transactions you should use Monero not Ethereum. Ethereum is not private. You can also use Aeon hehehe. |
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Holding bitcoin in these countries is a reasonable solution, I reckon, which also might make it a better investment outside of those countries.
It depends on how you look at it. It's easy to say for an outsider that Bitcoin is a reasonable solution and/or hedge, which is true, but the majority of the people there can't do anything with Bitcoin. You can't pay for your daily necessities with Bitcoin, which is what they actually need because they live from day to day not knowing what the next one will bring. News outlets have been fooling people about crypto adoption there. If one local store accepts payments in Bitcoin, they directly refer to it as ' Venezuela Bitcoin adoption growing' where they add tons of gibberish to the story to spice things up. Not cool. However, we should remember that these countries are Venezuela and Zimbabwe. Countries which are suffering or have suffered from hyperinflation. Their people might not use bitcoin as currency for daily necessities, but they can use it to store their wealth unless gold or the US dollar are easier to buy. |
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@StarkInternational. Bad for the miners. The developers have the miners' income decreased by 33%. I reckon changes such as monetary policy must have consensus within the community and not imposed by developers.
@Dragonrage201. The hardfork will begin on January 17, only a 1 day delay.
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Agreed and this is also true for bitcoin. However, you know more hashrate is better. The blockchain clearly is more secure and not as vulnerable to attackers who go from coin to coin using their GPU mining farms or rent hash power from Nicehash to attack altcoins. |
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