I like the art style on that, is it a game?

The campaign is over, your argument is invalid.

I love Economists. They provide me with a constant supply of lulz.

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Are three decades of gaming not enough or am I just not a real gamer until I go balls deep into sudoku?


Saleception please.

When did you flip from hodl to panic? lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOO5S4vxi0o

Where do I sign up for a 65% discount sale?

If volume is usually in the 10% range of the total supply then throwing an extra 1% on the market would increase volume by 10% (and thus to 11%). Let's say that of the 10% volume half is buy and half is sell pressure. If you now add 1% total supply to the sell side your sell pressure increases to 6%, which is now 20% higher than the buy pressure. This 20% figure is a bit more significant than 1% and in this case is more visible than the amount of extra coins are as a function of total supply.

tl;dr liquidity matters

Yeah it's a pretty sad state of affairs. People who can't reason out proper arguments should be banned from any sort of policy making.

I wonder if this is something that will keep existing or if it'll slowly wane off as people gain more access to information.

Seems like it could go both ways. On one hand it's pretty difficult to miss the hypocrisy, lies, and manipulation by certain figures. On the other hand, people at large don't even seem to be interested in figuring out how things work in our world.

Meh, it happens. But thanks for the condolences.

I managed to snatch up the last available mint condition hard drives for each of the ones that I had that I could find on the internet.
So I've got some spare heads and PCBs that may or may not help me recover the files in the future.

But for now I've put that on halt since I'd have to move all my crypto holdings around since they are backed up on both of those drives as well and I wouldn't want some data recovery service to snatch them up.

Somehow whenever I see an Economist talk I lose more respect for the bunch. And I'm quite fond of Economics in general, too bad it's infested with intellectual toddlers and liars.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/forget-100000-bitcoin-says-kenneth-rogoff-try-100-instead-2018-03-06

Also regarding data storage:

https://petapixel.com/2016/02/16/glass-disc-can-store-360-tb-photos-13-8-billion-years/


I wish I had one of those, then I wouldn't have lost 4 terrabytes worth of old sentimental grade data by having two hard drives die simultaneously for no fucking reason.

The theoretical aspects of AI are pretty much set for human-level expansion. The bottleneck is hardware, and that's changing at a rapid pace.

Intel just brought out a new quantum chip. The faculty of Physics on this campus has just recently (couple years or so) started researching and creating hardware neural network chips.

There's also been research going on with new "substrates" for computers and storage devices.

These things snowball extremely quickly once the fundamental research has been done and things move into "physical production" territories, which we have been in for a few years now in the cases of quantum chips and neural network hardware (not sure what the current progress on using e.g. DNA for data storage or computing is).

I can't find any argument that really convinces me of consciousness being something unique to humans and/or animals. I also find it quite strange that we would try to separate our consciousness from the rest of the world. Studying statistics and probability theory on a theoretical level has got me tilting more and more towards "everything is conscious" and we're just walled off bits of consciousness.

It's finished.

There's also quite an amount of promising looking research going on into longevity, such as halting or reversing the effects of aging (successful in worms and rats). There's also that whole deal with Crispr. Then there's that guy who's planning a head transplant. And research in nanotechnology. And we've got billions of dollars focusing on AI as well. A breakthrough in just one of these could quite rapidly shift us into a "indefinite lifespan" species.

The ICO is about to end in a few hours and the campaign along with it.

Stakes are updated manually, approximately once per week. They'll be up to date before the bounty payouts in approximately two weeks from now.

ICO sales immediately. Bounties around two weeks from now.

The month just started though....

Basically states that for strictly payment purposes there's no VAT to be paid.

For mining purposes there's no tax because there's no "taxable event", as the block rewards and transaction fees are not a paid service (probably because the fees are variable and random) and the mining (which is defined as the solving of mathematical algorithms) is a voluntary action by the miner.

If a wallet provider charges fees they are subject to taxes in the event that the fees are charged within Germany.


Basically states that cryptocurrencies are equivalent to legal tender as long as they are strictly used as a means of payment. Not included in this are "game currencies".

Doesn't say anything about capital gains taxes, so I assume they're the same as before (that is whatever the tax rate is for short term holds, and tax free for long term holds of 12 months or longer).


If electricity prices in Europe were more reasonable that would pretty much invite mining operations into Germany... I kind of doubt that 10 times more expensive electricity would make up for virtual tax exemption.