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I like Elon and love SpaceX but he has the common problem smart people have in that he thinks he knows better than everybody in fields that isn't his specialty

Those are 'advisors' for a 'foundation'. Vitalik is an 'advisor' to god knows how many projects by now. Neuralink's CEO is not going to be coding dogecoin. Jared Birchall is one of Musk's 'trusted aides' (says LATimes) and he hired the private investigator to try and dig up dirt on the scuba...

this game runs on a blockchain I've never heard before, which apparently has zero TX fees even while allowing orders of magnitude more entries on a supposedly open ledger, by using something called 'rechargeable resource credits'. The whitepaper calls staking 'powering up'. Also the whitepaper...

I'm all for discussion of NFT games that could get me stupid amounts of money by doing little to nothing

Yes, I got that from the first reply. You'll forgive my confusion when separate ETH projects like to call themselves the same thing and polygon tokens were stolen. My response was in regards to arguing the semantics of the word 'hack' which is rather irrelevant to the users who lost money...

LBRY/Odysee up 20% today, yay. It's nice to see my worst investment slightly less of a train wreck. Now at 98 sats. I made multiple buys of this coin anywhere from 3000 to 20,000 sats in 2017. And LBRY actually does something, unlike the dog coin. oops, down to 95 sats as I type this.

AMM is the best thing to come out of the Ethereum ecosystem so far. It's a very cool innovation. Yield farming APY is insane. Hedge funds do like 5-10% and I'm getting ~65% on Sovryn. I don't have a lot in it yet but as my confidence grows I may add a lot more. It's fun to see the yield...

You can call it whatever you like, but they still lost half a billion dollars and had to beg exchanges to blacklist addresses

I quit WoW in early Cataclysm to play a classic EQ emulated server which I found to be much more enjoyable. I still logged into WoW every couple of years to fix addons, and every time I did I was kind of shocked at how much worse the game got. How anybody can continue playing retail WoW is...

Cuban is only slightly less clueless than Elon. I doubt he understands the difference between sidechains and rollups. Rollups are an evolution of lightning, so that's why they're exciting. With sidechains you're exiting into a completely different security model/network which is far less...

No layer 1 is going to handle all the world's transactions. That's fantastical nonsense for a distributed public ledger. ETH and Radix and such are going with shards but what that does is trade security for more TX capacity, and that capacity is still going to be too limited. Sidechains have...

Lowry has an interesting take. Since the primary role of governments is to protect the property of the opulent, (or seize more property from others via force) bitcoin could displace much of government's role. Humanity will need to abolish war soon if we are to survive as a species regardless...

I couldn't let Flobee have all the fun

I mean, Eth was the textbook definition of a premine+ICO, and it was a large one, but that doesn't mean Ethereum isn't a real project doing revolutionary things. The founders+ICO buyers basically granted themselves a lot of ownership stake in the network at the expense of newcomers. People...

It's amazing how my political allies have changed so much in recent years. To the point that I hate Elizabeth Warren for the fraud that she is and am grateful for Ted Cruz here is not something I would have expected not long ago. Something can be 'security-like' without being one or not one...

I was checking out ETH gas fees a few weeks ago, saw that something called 'Axie Infinity' was using a lot of gas on the network. I thought, WTF is that? Googled it, and it's some Pokemon-like NFT game made in Vietnam and Filipinos are making tons of money off of it. Like crypto kitties with...

The Portman-Warner amendment is still hostile to bitcoin because bitcoin has layers on top, which would be affected. Lightning would be. I'm also yield farming using Rootstock/Sovryn contracts right now, so bitcoin has some nascent DeFi on it. It's so vague it will just scare developers out...

Give me a fucking break. People didn't know about Cosby in 2013. Here, check this link for a Daily Show interview with Jon Stewart (who is in fact, a comedian in comedian circles) in November 2013 where Stewart gushes over the comedic 'legend' (literally the first word out of Stewart's mouth...

you're not rich until you're out

Coinbase fees are ridiculous but there are reasons why they get away with it. They built a very easy to use platform with secure custody and figured out how to sell an asset that cannot be seized using digital payments. The obvious reason why it was always hard to buy crypto with credit cards...

If the price reliably went up and back down to the same level over and over again, then trading would be easy and everybody would do it. Not holding any can be more of a gamble than holding.

There is no 'mining level', which is constantly changing. (every two weeks) Recently the difficulty adjusted by -29% because of China's ban, which was a record. Satoshi mined on a single desktop CPU at genesis, and the difficulty could go down that low again if a magic wand were waved and...

Of course this happens after I closed my margin long on Sovryn about 18 hours ago. Not that it was a large position since I was just trying it out. Unfortunately fees for margin trading there are batshit insane and I've had contracts fail to execute on me, so I won't be using it much until...

Only fools short bitcoin after it's been down 50%. They got what they deserve

I trust Dorsey before the other tech company CEOs, but that's not saying a lot. He pushes back on congress the most, and tells them to their faces that he doesn't think they should have the power to censor, and admitted that Twitter should not have censored the Hunter Biden laptop story. He's...

MadSeasonShow still using OCRemix music in monetized videos against their terms of use I see. Scummy

Or Al'Kabor. would have saved years of my life

Going to play devil's advocate for social media companies: they are likely censoring much more than they actually want to because they are being pressured by government actors. Democrats are threatening to break up their companies over it. But that doesn't excuse all of it and I certainly have...

James is right about Uniswap. Them removing some tokens from their front end isn't a big deal. You can add any token you want in metamask and swap inside the wallet. Furthermore there are alternative token swapping contracts regardless, so if Uniswap decided to go on a ban spree, they would...

Did he ask GZ why he made wizards so bad

Premium Banking Powered by Crypto - LVL comes fairly close to that. There's still a checking account, but conversion to and from crypto is free

Bitfinex is based in Hong Kong. It's ridiculous to me that New York state can presume to be the world financial police and charge them with anything to begin with. If I were Bitfinex I'd give them the finger as much as I could get away with too. The Liberty dollar guy was an American, holding...

I'd link a 'everything is fine, don't freak out' video but those don't exist because they don't get clicks for ad revenue. If Tether collapsed tomorrow, the bitcoin network would hum away like nothing happened just like it kept humming away from $20,000 to $3,000 after 2017 and everybody who...

Better to have your IT security audited in peacetime by digital thugs than find out what security holes you have after war breaks out

A natural consequence from the Alliance aesthetic looking the way it does

No, charisma does not affect charm duration at all; it only modifies the target's MR value when it lands. Old Sony dev posts are incorrect. I just ran some extensive (24+ hour, ~3k lands each) parses on Live servers recently to verify. There was no difference between 75 CHA and 280 CHA...

That is the exact opposite of my experience. On my server (Hyjal) the Horde were the mature ones and the Alliance were the children. Then blood elves hit and that blew up that dynamic

wormie such a debbie downer

Well somebody is completely incorrect, but I don't think it's me. 'Finality' just means that the transaction can be safely assumed to not be reverseable. For most transactions, 1 or 2 confirms is enough on Bitcoin. Generally speaking most people say to wait for 6 confirms for large payments...

No, what limits scaling is that decentralized ledgers grow massively since every transaction is recorded forever and would quickly grow to a point at which running a node would no longer be possible by most people, (or potentially anybody) thereby threatening the security of the network. Lots...