Search results

In a way the software industry is already doing this, just without blockchain. Those "activation keys" you get are really encrypted strings which they can validate as authentic. The thing the blockchain adds is the ability to track explicitly who bought what. Before they could easily check...

Well, for digital art, if you wanted to protect it, for the most part, you would only put a thumbnail on the item in it's sale profile. Even then someone could screen scrape the graphic itself. But the reality is that yes, it wouldn't be that useful for just a graphic. I'm still honestly...

To imagine the value of NFTs you have to look past the ideas of correlating it to physical art, even though that's what people are trying to do. Remember in Ready Player One? All those in game items... think of them as NFTs. There could only be so many Deloreans, or so many Fireflies, or so...

For me I have been considering taking money I had parked in a traditional savings account (as a "just in case money" buffer) and just putting it into USDC and then storing those on BlockFi for interest. I think it all comes down to how much you trust the stability/ethics/security of the...

I'm still confused though as to if this Superman and Lois is on the same Earth as the Flash and the rest of the Arrowverse (since they're confirming Stargirl apparently as being on Earth 2 by bringing in Wesley Shipp's Jay Garrick in season 2)

... and that's possibly the highest praise one can give it. ;) Second episode done, still feeling cautiously optimistic about it. I can see the path the twins drama will unfold along, but that isn't bothering me much. I'm sure we'll have a steady diet of Small Town Reporter Lois Lane, but...

I can like and appreciate that. Sets up a proper bad guy, that being a bad guy who believes he is the good guy.

You remember thinking it was highway robbery when you had to pay 24 cents per shot for hollow point 9mm ammo.

Yep, that's him. Something about the way he talks on them just grates me, but I see his point, and I'll honestly let it run in the background (muted) on my system if it gets him another view towards having more views than her.

So today's pondering in my head.... Keep my coins in my wallet, with my keys, etc.... v. Put the ones I can on BlockFi and earn "interest" on them.... With a side tangent of the hybrid being that I can keep my Cardano on my Deadalus wallet and stake from there.

I don't watch this, but @Mrs. Haus watches a youtuber who "Hate Reviews" it every week. At this rate his hate reviews are going to be getting more weekly views than the show they're based on within a month.

I'm taking a "wait and see" approach as the first 2-3 episodes of about any series is going to do a ton of exposition/setup/character establishment. I do agree that we will need to see more "Superman doing Superman shit" v. "Side characters doing their thing" in the long run to really make me...

For the love of God tell me you're being sarcastic... At the very end, when he's back on his ship/base (apparently in some artic type area) and the ship/base computer is talking to him about analysis from the first fight and what needs to be improved/modified on the suit, and it refers to him...

Well this story is relevant to the Flash show as it will force them to write around not having one of what I felt were the few entertaining characters they had. I was honestly, and mostly because of the sentimentality towards the comic characters, hoping to see them play out the Ralph/Sue...

OK, my understanding of NFT's. It's essentially leveraging a blockchain to guarantee authenticity of a digital item/object. It's like the DRM of the cryptocurrency world, and then some. As an artist, you would be able to create digital items. Essentially this is a file or some kind. many...

That's another part that is somewhat perplexing to me, probably indicating I don't understand enough of it yet. In a traditional market downturn you would see a "flight to safety". That's usually the bond market. But sometimes if the downturn is inflationary it goes to commodities. We are...

What I am not understanding right now is that all the tracking news seems to be indicating a near term influx of institutional money wanting to buy into bitcoin, yet seeing the price correction continue is odd. Although some are speculating that a lot of institutional buying isn't happening on...

You guys are pontificating about trading which is happening over a weekend AND over the end of a month. I'm definitely still a completely noob at this, but everything I've been reading since Friday has been saying it's not smart to do any trading this weekend, and most of them are expecting...

That was pretty much my path I ended up using.... USD -> coinbase -> BTC -> Kraken -> Deadalus Wallet -> staking. The whole process ended up costing me around 2-3% in fees and crap, and could be summed up with the phrase PITA.

OK, @Mrs. Haus and I had a go at the pilot. I liked it. If they can keep this tone it will keep me watching. But they have to avoid two things for me. Don't slip into the Woke-abyss (i.e. Supergirl...) Don't turn into "People... in hallways... talking about their feelings!" (i.e. what...

Yeah, I'm thinking we're going to see BTC retest some lows in the next week. Reading news on this it seems to be being partially driven by one of the big mining pools dropping a bunch of BTC onto the exchanges. Still trying to figure out easiest way to get into ADA and MATIC in Texas short of...

They have obviously failed in actually transitioning to being a man, as a man would not have taken "abuse" and just have just given her the back of his hand for getting out of line and carried on with his day. #amirite?

OK. Newb question here. I'm on Coinbase (see the "old guy finds money" post). But wanting to buy into some other altcoins, most of which you can't buy on the coinbase exchange. But apparently binance you just can't use in Texas of all things. Am I going to have to tempt fate with Kraken...

Also the fact that Jon Cryer actually made a damn good Lex Luthor in my book...

What do you guys think about AONE.U ? I'm interested because they're taking a metal additive 3d printing firm public through acquisition and I think that's an area that will be doing good business over the next decade. But I have a mixed bag of feels about the SPAC because it involves the...

This guy has an interesting point. Not sure the it's perfect correlation/causation-wise. He mentions that there's a huge chinese bitcoin mining pool and every time they dump large volumes of BTC onto exchanges there's a temporary downward spike in prices. He mentions it at around 2:30 in this...

Yo Ho Ho! I'm in the same boat.... I just wait for each series to end so I can go "watch" it all at once, from a boat... .

As per "outlawing Bitcoin". Go look up how that played out for Nigeria. They tried that there. ;)

Which I suspect is in her long term goals.....

Yeah, she's saying it's used for illicit purchases... yet it's a blockchain and you can quite literally track every single transaction. If you're buying something illicit it makes more sense to deal in cash. heh The bottom line here is the US wants to control what crypto people use, which is...

Yeah, this actually sounds bearish saying it's "seems high". Either that or he realizes that the SEC will have hell convicting him of trying to pump or suppress a market in a cryptocurrency so he's having fun being an Omega level troll.

I was always under the impression that the EPA forcing heavy regulation on rare earth processors is why we don't have much in domestic rare earths business. Although I definitely see the reasons to want to have independence on that front. IIRC Morgan Stanley came out with some bullish...

Another newb question... Apparently I can't use Binance in Texas. (even going to Binance.us it has no love for me...) What's a good platform to use for us Texans? Short of just robbing people when they cross the border?

So as I'm exploring this whole scene and trying to figure out the best way for an Old who happens to be decent with computers to do OK in it I'm leaning towards the thought that Bitcoin is a store of wealth (like gold) and everybody will transfer it into a more liquid/usable form for actual...

Question, I haven't watched any of it yet. Plan on watching once I can get it (off a boat... wink wink) all and binge. My understanding was that the barrier itself was impenetrable at first, apparently beekeeper dude leveraged the sewers to go "under" it. But Monica Rambeau is able to push...

Is there a TLDW write up/summary of the fun from today's hearings?

I think I just set a new high watermark for how much of a clueless middle aged white guy I truly am. I've been researching the idea of putting some assets into Cryptocurrency as a hedge against what I think will be an upcoming market correction (my unverifyable "gut" is telling me a 40%-50%...

Does it pick up after the first episode? Or is that what I should expect from it? I know first episodes are always exposition heavy and whatnot.

That and well... has a penis.

LATE BREAKING NEWS!: https://babylonbee.com/news/gina-carano-rehired-by-disney-after-she-identifies-as-an-abusive-male-director