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Tesla's only one manufacturer. The electric car certainly helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but it isn't for everybody. I guess that to many city-dwellers, the electric car is appropriate.
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I will not use that Brave browser because I like to keep my browsing private. I've already tuned my software to block all cookies from google, facebook and most advertisers!
I thought all BTC users liked to retain their privacy...
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I'm sure that BTC will compete with government's currency at some point, just like it competes with fiat currency. Note that we may see a government-invented cryptocurrency some day, to compete with BTC.
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I'm a webmaster, owning several websites, making money via advertising, and I've never asked for donations. Your story reminds me of a conversation I had with a priest who was once offered a car. He didn't want it because he didn't want to get into trouble, nor get into expenses with insurance or gas. I don't think I'd be happy if someone would offer me some miner equipment. I was once a miner, but I gave up in 2013. Sorry but I don't to be bothered, nor waste time with uncertain projects. Time goes fast so I want to concentrate on what I do best, and what I'm sure is profitable to me.
So for example you would not want to be bothered with setting up a slush account and putting the address up on your site? If no one used it OK so what. But if they did and you made more money what's the bother you don't have to run the equipment you don't have to do anything but open a account that takes 2 mins. You can't be bothered with that? Yes, I don't want to be bothered with that, I also don't want to look like a loser. Excuse-me, but normal media do not beg. I'd rather follow the examples of the FT or the NYTimes which both have a paid-entry section. |
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How about the other way around? I'd be happy if BTC would get a bit more difficult to use to get more privacy.
Besides, BTC's very easy to use. I don't know how it could be made easier.
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I'm a webmaster, owning several websites, making money via advertising, and I've never asked for donations. Your story reminds me of a conversation I had with a priest who was once offered a car. He didn't want it because he didn't want to get into trouble, nor get into expenses with insurance or gas. I don't think I'd be happy if someone would offer me some miner equipment. I was once a miner, but I gave up in 2013. Sorry but I don't to be bothered, nor waste time with uncertain projects. Time goes fast so I want to concentrate on what I do best, and what I'm sure is profitable to me.
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BTC doesn't help. It sure gave me a new opportunity to invest some of my cash, it also gave me new opportunities to make a little money by trading altcoins. I've also used BTC for some unusual online purchases, but frankly it doesn't help at all in my daily routine, paying for food or gas.
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Old people, I believe. Because the young certainly change their equipment more frequently, but they always download huge files and record movies, which can fill the largest disk in only a few months.
I currently own 2 computers, one with 1TB HDD, the other with a 2TB HDD, but I don't have 100 Go of free space in any of them.
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Without being as affirmative as the OP, I have to admit ETH has proven to be surprisingly resilient. After the huge failure of the DAO, and the hard fork, I find it incredible that ETH has kept its value. If it has survived this, it's not going to disappear tomorrow.
And it's quite true that bitcoin's governance is a joke. Block size issue (I mean scalability) is still far from solved.
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Good! If the US army needs to experiment with bioweapons or some other toxic materials, I'm expecting it to make live trials inside the continental US, and not in some foreign third world country.
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A trash button is a totally stupid idea, but I can easily imagine a wallet sponsored by the Red Cross with a built-in button to donate to the Red Cross (or some other charity...).
If someone actually do it, please indicate the idea is mine.
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I've said it for years: the best thing is to be a foreigner. You're just visiting, you don't know nothing and you're about to leave. That's what I've been saying for a long time, and so far it has worked well for me.
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How much is tuition at Chicago university?
If it costs $10,000 to enroll, it isn't a good deal to get $150 worth of BTC as a bonus. Is it OK if you spend them on illegal substances like many students would be tempted to do?
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I haven't noticed anything. I guess it depends a lot of the country you're in. But most often, your bank will not know you do anything with BTC. You may wire money to a company which has "bitcoin" in its name, and then what? Nothing.
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If we perpetually increase capacity ahead of demand, fees will never rise. Transactions will always be free or nearly free for users. This will not end well in a future where block subsidy ends and fees alone must support the security of the network (by incentivizing miners). If we did this, we are basically depending on mass adoption and skyrocketing price being guaranteed. That's probably not a good engineering decision.
The demand is there already. By not increasing capacity, mass adoption becomes impossible. It's already not possible for just 1 million people to make a few transactions per day, let alone much more people. I don't think you understand what I said. The demand should outweigh capacity if fees are to rise. And fees must rise significantly if the chain is to remain secure many years from now. And regarding capacity....firstly, Segwit, Schnorr and other optimizations + LN will drastically increase capacity. Secondly, it's not clear that fees are discouraging adoption at all---data, please? For those that view BTC as digital gold, 10 or 20 cent fees are not discouraging at all. Even though I understand, and quite agree to a rise in transaction fees, I don't like the idea that demand should outweigh capacity. Do we want BTC to be a rich guy's club or to become the world's leading cryptocurrency, and to change the world? Look at Ferrari. They artificially limit their production. They could sell more but they don't to protect the value of their brand, and the exclusivity of their products. I guess it suits them well, but you must look at Ford or Toyota to see who is changing the world. |
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Savings account at an old and well-regarded bank. Interest I get is very low, but I can make large withdrawals as I wish, and without prior notice. Real estate is nice, but it takes too long if you need your money fast.
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I hadn't imagined someone would try running a node without a desktop with a large HDD and a fast DSL connection. If you're the kind of person who doesn't bother switching off the computer at night, running a node is then virtually free.
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I don't like topics about block size. It's smarter to talk about free space within each block. On an average computer, most people would say you need to keep at least 15% free space on your hard disk so that you work on files without hiccup. It's the same thing with BTC. If we're close to max capacity, things will be less smooth. It may even stall at some point and we don't want to see that.
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That's not news. The young may get some kind of training, but to all those above 35, there's ahrdly any hope of finding an employer willing to hire them. Even ate a very, very low wage which is legal in Germany. Better stay at home, make kids to get more allowances and pray allah that this stupid system will keep on going.
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I've thought that many times, but nobody said it couldn't get worse. It's also probable it will get even worse out of Europe, as there will be no supranational power to grant consumer rights to anyone, but I guess that's what the Brits wanted. Are you kidding? Because power is now transferring from Brussels to the UK we'll have far more control over our laws, we'll be able to boot out MPs now that try to fuck around and push through mass surveillance and censorship because we've preserved our sovereignty. Had the remain vote won it would be far more difficult to counter the super state that Junker and his beauracrats are trying to establish with the help of British MPs. Oh, do you trust British MPs? That new mass surveillance plan is 100% British. Brits installed CCTV cameras everywhere all by themselves, and the UK is one of the very few places in the world where you can go to jail if you write an offensive tweet. So the british people has dumped the idea of a supranational state, but nobody said that would automatically translate into more freedom for the average guy. |
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