> If this pandemic does not teach nations, governments and people why it is so important to have short local and capable supply chains, I don't know what will. I doubt it will. I order a lot of construction materials,…
He said: "I only needed 6"
It's massively easier. If at the time I had my money in bitcoin, I would just need to find willing trader (someone who would trade my bitcoin for making my rent payment). But because I didn't, and my bank account was…
Yeah, it was the US. Funnily enough, I never found out why it happened. Everyone claimed to not know, have no access to it, and the people who were supposed to be in touch with me never were. A week earlier I did send a…
No, not at all. During my asset freeze, I considered trying to take action against my bank to force something to actually happen and facts to come to light. But I also had access to no money, and and my time was better…
So basically he believes bitcoin is a ponzi because bitcoin investors "expect good profits" yet also believes "few if any gold investors have expectations of profits". I laughed a little, but then I realized he was…
I got involved in bitcoin after being blackballed from the (US) financial world while for 2-3 months while I was "investigated" in the most dystopianly opaque way possible. One day I lost the ability to transact. A few…
100 years ago, you would've used the same argument to try ban cars. They're fundamentally antithetical to democracy, as they allow anyone to .. commit crimes and get away with it.
More informative than one you didn't go to?
> my partner is intergender but biologically female/female-presenting Out of curiosity, would that make you bisexual?
> Ah, blockchain innovation, which is somehow so vital to the shining future of mankind, yet has utterly failed to produce anything of technological or economic value with the billions already invested. Cryptocurrencies…
HN tends to be very skeptical in general. It's easy to sound intelligent with a well-reasoned negative opinion than it is with an optimistic one. I think with cryptocurrency in particular a lot of HN'ers have really…
> If this pandemic does not teach nations, governments and people why it is so important to have short local and capable supply chains, I don't know what will. I doubt it will. I order a lot of construction materials,…
He said: "I only needed 6"
It's massively easier. If at the time I had my money in bitcoin, I would just need to find willing trader (someone who would trade my bitcoin for making my rent payment). But because I didn't, and my bank account was…
Yeah, it was the US. Funnily enough, I never found out why it happened. Everyone claimed to not know, have no access to it, and the people who were supposed to be in touch with me never were. A week earlier I did send a…
No, not at all. During my asset freeze, I considered trying to take action against my bank to force something to actually happen and facts to come to light. But I also had access to no money, and and my time was better…
So basically he believes bitcoin is a ponzi because bitcoin investors "expect good profits" yet also believes "few if any gold investors have expectations of profits". I laughed a little, but then I realized he was…
I got involved in bitcoin after being blackballed from the (US) financial world while for 2-3 months while I was "investigated" in the most dystopianly opaque way possible. One day I lost the ability to transact. A few…
100 years ago, you would've used the same argument to try ban cars. They're fundamentally antithetical to democracy, as they allow anyone to .. commit crimes and get away with it.
More informative than one you didn't go to?
> my partner is intergender but biologically female/female-presenting Out of curiosity, would that make you bisexual?
> Ah, blockchain innovation, which is somehow so vital to the shining future of mankind, yet has utterly failed to produce anything of technological or economic value with the billions already invested. Cryptocurrencies…
HN tends to be very skeptical in general. It's easy to sound intelligent with a well-reasoned negative opinion than it is with an optimistic one. I think with cryptocurrency in particular a lot of HN'ers have really…