Why torrent a song these days when there are many other ways to get them or listen to them for nothing. Even the videos. I quit torrenting because I needed the bandwidth for games.
Exactly my point..."Why use crypto when there are so many other "safer"/"easier" options?" If you want lossless (FLAC/OGG/WAV), a torrent's still the way to go.
I think MANY people stopped torrenting because 1-2 people were made an example of. NB - They were targeted for piracy, but people fear Torrents entirely now as a result.
If applied to crypto, it would take 1-2 whales ending up in prison for evasion (and all-over the news), and that might be enough to keep people from entering the ecosystem out of fear.
I think MANY people stopped torrenting because 1-2 people were made an example of. NB - They were targeted for piracy, but people fear Torrents entirely now as a result.
It wouldn't be for the 1K, it would be for the optics. Squash one bug, and make it very visible, and the others scatter. Fear works, unfortunately.
They just need to make an example of one of them, and others will be likely to shy away from the practice in the future.
I didn't think the RIAA would sue individuals for > $50,000 per song, but sometimes making an example is worth the extra work. People are still too scared to torrent.
Synchronicities only: coincidences with which to increase ones leverage. It's also sweeps week and politics/finance are now our entertainment: anything that happens will be magnified.
Bad feels @ US market tomorrow.
Same, Yubikey or similar would be A++
What do you mean "very" real? Are they more real than say a goat? A bridge? How real are they on a scale from 1 to 10?
"Very real" in the sense that observed phenomenon are sometimes more "real" than those that are not observed: Puppets usually have an audience.
Fix conjestion by multiplying TXs by 2? Interesting idea, but I doubt it will act as intended when it hits a live fee market.
If the connection is encrypted, the ISP can't see the content, just that there is a connection (until they go full MITM for "National Security" reasons).
Use the local node for reading posts, submit the signed TXs to someone else's node (or use on online TX Push service).
I forgot that was still buried in there...I usually end up streaming C-SPAN.
If it's coming out of a TV, it's entertainment.
You can only quit if you want to quit. If you want to quit, it is disorienting, but not all that difficult. The wanting is the hard part.
Breaking an addiction is an inherently violent process (you must destroy part or all of "yourself"). People tend to shy away from violence.
You can only quit if you want to quit. If you want to quit, it is disorienting, but not all that difficult. The wanting is the hard part.
Should be -- but you'd 100% be relying on user's trust in the oracle.
No. You *CAN* have both parties to commit a hash of a value @ a funding address, later combining these values w/ MOD(A+B) to get a psuedo-random value (see chainbet protocol).
Also, a Oracle that generates random
#s (signed w/ combination of the random number and some nonce included in the Smart Contract) would work.
