PedanticPendant

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Or go extra spicy and have a podium next to Lightning House where Big Brother r/bitcoin stands flanked by Blockstream banners, spouting propaganda to the cowed masses while they queue
2192d · TxStreet.com
I love a good analogy so I think TxStreet is awesome, great job! Suggestion: it might be cool to display the median fee on the buses themselves (like a ticket price or something)
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I think there are 32 buses to compare with BTC's single bus.
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My main concern is the crimes for which he was tried and convicted (no hitmen or murder charges were mentioned in his trial AFAIK) weren't immoral, but he's still in prison for life.
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He claims the chat logs where DPR solicits murder were not him - I don't know if I believe him but there is some doubt at least.
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I should clarify: I mean that the crimes for which he's imprisoned were all victimless (no charges of soliciting murder were brought against him, just drug trafficking etc).
2192d · #FreeRoss
In 2013 you'd be hard pressed to find a Bitcoiner who wouldn't legalise every drug under the sun if he could. In 2018 things are different, plenty of left and right authoritarians who dgaf.
2192d · #FreeRoss
However I don't think the crypto community at large (moonkids and all) care, they'd rather just shake off the crimey reputation of the Silk Road and ride institutional money to the moon
2192d · #FreeRoss
In my view Ross is a criminal without a victim. It's a disgusting separation of law and morality that he's been imprisoned for even a day.
2192d · #FreeRoss
Crypto communities might skew libertarian but there are other ideologies present, even Marxists hopeful that a new monetary system will finally permit capitalism to fall the way Marx predicted
2192d · Bitcoin Cash
Honestly "every ASIC disappearing" is a fantasy, but there is the prospect of a hashpower squeeze that self-reinforces and tanks the network, to which BTC is the most vulnerable
2192d · Bitcoin Cash
Then individual CPU/GPU miners would be stuck with a difficulty that's a factor of ~millions too hard & blocks that take years to mine
2192d · Bitcoin Cash
Realistically, if it ever takes a year to mine a block it will be because the network hashrate suddenly dropped by a huge margin (e.g. every ASIC miner leaves the network simultaneously)
2192d · Bitcoin Cash
Fun fact: the average time until the next block is mined is ALWAYS 10 mins, even if it's been 5 mins, 30 mins or a year since the last block was mined.
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EC's boss owns his labour because he paid for it. This was only possible because it was EC's to sell in the first place, i.e. he owned it until he sold it. Nothing wrong with that.
2192d · Capitalism
90% of plastic waste in the ocean is from Asia and Africa. "damn western capitalists"
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Prediction: Hila Klein is currently pregnant and will give birth in March 2019
2194d · US Politics/Trump
Possible doomsday: democrats win big majority in congress in midterms > successfully impeach Trump > Trump refuses to leave office, Trump-supporting civilian militias start civil war
2194d · US Politics/Trump
Trump is a worst case scenario. If the US survives in its current form to see a 46th president we can thank those white-wigged statesmen of yore for engineering an extremely robust state.
2194d · US Politics/Trump
Trump and Trumpism are a useful stress test of the checks and balances designed over the last 2.5 centuries to restrict wannabe tyrants with huge populist followings.
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