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Cryptocurrencies have a niche use, mainly to buy things on the black market but also for small peer-to-peer international payments when other options are not practical. For this reason I don't expect that cryptocurrencies will completely disappear any time soon.

However the value of bitcoin is mainly driven by speculation at this point, a currency that's so volatile is very difficult to use if you're a business. At best you accept it at the current exchange rate and you immediately convert it to fiat. Anything else is very risky.

But that might be temporary, eventually the exchange rate might stabilize, at which point speculation could be vastly reduced and it would work better as a currency. That's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem though, in order for the exchange rate to stabilize you must attach a real world value to the currency by buying and selling things, paying taxes etc... But that won't happen as long as the exchange rate is so volatile.

I'm also very much unconvinced that a deflationary currency can work at all in the long run or that bitcoin will end up fixing the problems its proponents say it will, but that's up for debate.
Mercurial, made by another (in my opinion) much more well-spoken kernel hacker, is what really introduced me to the concept that you do not break interface for downstream users, no matter how wrongly you may think they are using the interface.

It’s an attitude that is difficult to convey because software developers always want to have the freedom to “improve” their own software, even at the possible cost of breaking something for some users (and worse, even telling users that they shouldn’t have been doing that in the first place).

I keep going back to this blog post which I wish more people agreed with (Steve Losh is another person influenced by Mercurial):

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/04/volatile-software/
Bitcoin isn't a pyramid scheme. It just does not have any value. Fools and their money are easily parted. (The comments on this site have as much or more value.)

The Fractional reserve system is(), (Dollar, Pound, Euro, etc.) They require a constant recreation of debt to keep going.

(less a pyramid more just Ponzi)
The forked currencies are just the same as altcoins, you can't sell 1 Bitcoin Cash for $7000. The fact that people are willing to accept money for them doesn't change the value of one Bitcoin.
I think the behaviour of Bitcoin price (not the technology) reflects some social phenomenon rather than the real economy. And it is precisely why it is interesting.
What scares me is the amount of people investing all their life savings in this.

Somebody will get hurt, sooner or later.
I think with some sort of blockchain technologies, it would be harder for central banks to do things like what happened in Argentina, Greece or Zimbabwe.
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What does this mean?
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It seems to be kind of a running gag, and I wonder what else do people imagine is what the kernel is supposed to satisfy than as many other people's expectations as possible?
These sticky headers and footers are starting to piss me off
While I agree there isn't a huge difference any more, the iPhone 6s is noticeably faster than a 6. The gap from the 6 to the 8 is presumably even larger.

I find it kind of depressing* , but people do use their phones constantly, so things like performance do make a difference.

* Yes, ok, I've been a mobile app developer most of my working life, so I shouldn't really complain.
I don't think that fraudulent behavior by site operators is relevant to the X.509 certificate system.

All that the certificates do is make it possible to ensure you are talking to the server at the address you intend to communicate with.

TLS has nothing to do with the morality, ethics or legality of the site operator.

It's too bad that the English word "trust" has so many meanings that people get confused about what it means in this context.
Pretty sure that "90 megabits" means "per second", not "per day".
It's a virtual currency with a limited supply, but with a constantly growing interest(demand). This interest is not primarily driven by bitcoin's inherent qualities but more through:

1. Using bitcoin to acquire other cryptocurrencies
2. Promises of future profits
3. Getting "free money" by having bitcoin (Bitcoin cash, bitcoin gold)

The first one might actually be healthy, while 2 and 3 are most close to a pyramid scheme / "tulip mania" style scenario.

One thing is for sure. No one knows what exactly is going to happen.
There's no pyramid scheme. It's a hyped asset, to say the least, but there's no pyramid. Like a hyped startup, it doesn't do much yet, but it is promising, so people buy it. It may be "worth" much or zero in the end, it all depends on the final outcomes.

It's also the easiest/cheapest/most open asset to trade (depending on where you trade).

In the long term, Bitcoin can be seen as a safe heaven in case of economic chaos, like gold, but way easier to buy and hold. It can also be seen as an interesting economic experiment: what if currency wasn't managed by a government? Or you can give trading a try for a few $$ as a gamble (with more chances of success than in a casino).

It's also a useful currency in some cases: I'm a "digital nomad" which my bank can't seem to understand. Getting my Debit Card to work online from a foreign country, with an ever changing phone number (they insist on using SMS as a 2FA), sounds like an obstacle to them, but not to BTC.
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Pi-Hole is awesome. It took not much effort to get it running on a small default Debian 9 vm. The project is well supported as well. The devs are very responsive on reddit.

Once a client asked if it were possible to block all internet ads in their infrastructure. 20 minutes later i had a pi-hole up and running quite well.

I would like a better chronometer script though :)
Best advice I have heard is to learn about the blockchain and look at something like Ethereum. If buying Bitcoins feels to risky, don't invest, but blockchain technologies will certainly have a role to play in the future.
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A few years back I had 10 bitcoins and bought weed on the Silk Road with them. Hmm, imagine I held onto it :)
Not having an easily printable document also means you cant leave one or multiple copies of an important document around the workspace for convenient reference and as a physical reminder or even a prompt for discussion.

The Apple HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) used to be a great document to have printed out and left lying around for reference, and as a starting point for discussion.
Your first sentence mostly fits Bitcoin, but misses the point on most of the other cryptocurrencies.
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It might have got most of GBPEUR retail, but the vast majority of that flow by volume is traded in placed like Interactive Brokers, or over the phone between guys who need to swap a few million here and there.
As a general rule of thumb, I consider DNS-level blocking like pi-hole a defense-in-depth strategy only. It's great for situations where you cannot install a regular blocker plugin (e.g. IoT, or webpages inside applications instead of in a browser), but if you can, you absolutely want to use a dedicated tracking blocker in addition to pi-hole.
I think most of the people putting larger checks into Bitcoin are betting that it will become a store of value asset.

Going from memory, a recent Bloomberg article called Bitcoin: "Gold for millennials".

Or, similarly, Peter Thiel said recently [1]: "it's like a reserve form of money, it's like gold, and it's just a store of value. You don't need to use it to make payments."

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/26/bitcoin-underestimated-peter...
TransferWise held up a few thousand dollars I was sending to a friend in Europe who had been stranded. It wasn't like they just didn't send it for 24 hours, it took TransferWise three weeks to make whatever determination they were going to make, and cancel the transfer instead of sending it to my friend. They also made some incredibly bizarre accusation when canceling the transfer, that they believed the money was for "contraband" (drugs? guns? TransferWise didn't say). Considering my friend is the youth pastor in my hometown, well... So I'm not sure where TransferWise got their information, but there you have it: They held my money for three weeks before canceling the transfer for incredibly dubious reasons.
> ML is just going to end up automating the doctrine of FSD.

That's it in a nutshell. The ultimate black box to bow down to. We already do this with in so many ways, just following orders, just repeating what we hear, and so on.. and people think we're become less spineless and murderous as this wet dream of sociopathy is introduced? Yeah, right. Some list biased training data as a pitfall, from the "correct" perspective that is absolutely a feature, that is the point.

> Anyone else think it's quite possible there will be a lot of new wars in Western countries in 20-40 years

In real life? I can't think of anyone I can have normal, intelligent conversations with who doesn't express worries that get flagged on HN. And I'm not talking leftist young people, I'm talking everybody, from 20 to 85.
> electric car dealers were for a long time spared the jaw-dropping import tax of 180 percent that Denmark applies on vehicles fueled by a traditional combustion engine

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-02/denmark-i...
To all the naysayers in this thread, I suggest you watch "Banking on Bitcoin" on Netflix, which is a great introduction to Bitcoin. It might change your thinking.

Also check out Andreas Antonopoulos' videos on YouTube, which are easy to digest and very informative. Here's the place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1si5ZWLgy0
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Notice how almost all news of Bitcoin now are about its price. Bitcoin used to be exciting in both technical and economical aspects, but has now become just a store of value entirely driven by speculation.

Other technically superior cryptocurrencies (e.g. Monero, Ethereum) have replaced most of its usecases, boasting much faster and cheaper transactions and real anonymity in the case of Monero. Bitcoin takes more than an hour even at absurd transaction fees of multiple dollars, and is actually pseudonymous, meaning if you can associate an address with a real person, it becomes relatively easy to trace all their transactions unless they were careful to cover their tracks.

It may or may not continue to increase in value long-term, but it has little uses outside of being worth a lot of money.
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All people who are owning Bitcoin are betting.
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Of course! More seriously, I'm moving coins to Coinbase very soon as they're going to allow users to sell the new B2X coins the day after the split. I expect to make a 4 figure profit, but I'm not sure whether it'll be low 4 figures or high 4 figures.
Still not as stupid as buying fidget spinners in bulk.
Of course just like everyone on HN am aware of the book and heard this quote a billion+ times. And of course I know it's badly misused in this particular case (as it often is).
Yeah, it's pretty much what happened 500 years ago when people were selling everything they owned (including houses) to buy tulip bulbs[0].

Maybe it's not that bad yet, but it's looking to get that way.

Spoiler alert: It ended really badly, but the people who got out early enough did make a lot of money.

Plot twist: I did invest in bitcoins back when they were hovering around 2k and sold them for a small profit (~10%). Yep, I wish I invested more and held on, but it's so easy to think this way after the fact.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania.
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> - we don't cause regressions

Clearly false.

> and the corollary is that when regressions do occur, we admit to them and fix them, instead of blaming user space.

Clearly not a corollary...
You can’t expect to reason about this without some background in economics. Instead of telling you what I think (because to you I’m indistinguishable from all the other people responding with random guesses), I’m going to suggest that you read some introductory texts about economics and finance and you can probably form some reasonable opinions yourself.
needle, haystack or haystack needle.

everytime.
I think of it a bit like some huge regexs, you only arrive at the final point by building up to it in small (succinct) steps, and if you need to revisit it later, the old grey decompiler has to work harder.

Perl coders I knew prided themselves on illegible but powerful one liners in a smug/elitist way ("Ha! You can't read that?? That'd be three lines in C. Ha idiot."). I prefer readable code.
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That's a very broad claim. What "things" are you referring to and how would blockchain technology have prevented them?

Very simply put the Greek financial crisis was mainly due to poor bookkeeping by the Greek institutions (that's being kind), rampant tax evasion and foreign governments (especially within the EU) not wanting to keep footing the bill. I'm not sure how a clever use of SHA-256 would solve these systemic, cultural and diplomatic issues.

Especially since tax evasion would be significantly easier in a bitcoin world where you can launder and hide money extremely easily. No need for a hidden account in some tax heaven, just generate a new RX address and you're good to go, receive all the bribes and "off the record" payments you want.
My only point was that the quote is often misused and is highly contextual.

There are countless projects where work can be efficiently parallelized. Cramming 30 man years in a month still sounds like a death march but we do know that say Linux kernel which by now is probably a million(†) man-year effort was done faster than in geological time.

† Ok exaggerating but it is huge and with fast paced change throughout whole codebase.
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Perhaps, but it's fairly easy to un-Google your life nowadays.
> The website is getting hugged, ouch.

Indeed. Direct link to GitHub project: https://github.com/Atyantik/react-pwa
I'm not a libertarian, but I do believe it's good there are ways to hold relatively liquid assets outside of the traditional banking system. Greece is a great example.

Each system has their flaws, but Bitcoin is not worthless. The question is more, how much is it actually worth? I don't think anyone really knows at this point.

But the more you think about it: easy money policies might help keep the economy afloat, but at a significant price. Cash is losing value fast (perhaps not due to traditional inflation, but because assets just increase so much in value). I don't really believe this is going away anytime soon -- there is just too much money in the world looking for yield, and rates will be kept low.

Let's say you were a wealthy person with $5m in 2008. If you had the guts to put that into an S&P fund and borrow another $10m through portfolio margin (= $15m), you'd be worth around $50m today (excluding taxes, interest expenses, etc etc).
Big banks are already looking seriously into cryptocurrencies. Like seriously.
Just as I moved to PyTorch, they implement this for keras and tensorflow :(
Here's a link to that reply for those who don't want to spend a bunch of time browsing the thread to find it: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1710.3/02487.html

It's a very good summary of the Linux kernel userspace compatibility policy.
I'm afraid that like the housing bubble, it'll get "too big to burst" and require intervention to keep those who have previously invested afloat while keeping down those outside the bubble.
Agreed, I was just trying to say that currently, one of the most popular investment theses for Bitcoin is "Gold for millennials", not "anonymous paypal" or "decentralised stripe".
Fair point. And the article does make a good read, with explanations about why each capability in particular should be disallowed.
Then you might never get it back.
Yep, that's what I use. Because it is open-source and cross-platform -- not to mention, pretty high quality -- it has significantly increased the attractiveness of teaching SQLite. Previously, me and other SQLite teachers I knew would point students to the SQLite Manager plugin for Firefox, which is also free and open source, but a bit clunkier: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manage...

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Your comment is clearly willfully obtuse and clearly serves no purpose.
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These are normative, not descriptive statements.
Lmao. "Bitcoin" and "safe heaven" in one sentence. You made my day. #thehypeisreal
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Note that this is a database of fake phishing websites that impersonate legit projects (and try to steal your money) - its not a database of scamy ICOs. As mentioned - there are certainly those too - but I don't remember any with bigger/reputable projects lately.
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I think he meant the fact that banks were locked down by the Central Bank and Greek people couldn't withdraw cash they legally owned (yet foreigners, with foreign cards etc could).

Re tax evasion, perhaps for small amounts, but not meaningful sums. That money still has to show up somewhere in the banking system, at some point, if a counterparty accepts it. You could make the same argument about diamonds or gold ingots (though those are obviously less convenient to move around)
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"whether Bitcoin is basically a pyramid scheme set to crash massively, or something huge that will continue climbing" --- you can say the same thing about regular money