Trump being president is a big part of why Bitcoin is rising this year.
Instability and uncertainty over possible war in Korea is driving people there to buy a currency that they'll be able to access if they have to suddenly flee the country.
Eastern Europeans afraid of Russia now the the US has all but abandoned NATO.
The US is losing it's global influence, so the Dollar is losing some of it's Store of Value ability.
Free housing is available if you just don't smoke or drink on the premises. I have a friend who sleeps on the street because he'd rather smoke than have shelter.
A node can run with only recent blocks, as long as the other data is available on the network. If could be made prunable; just copy the oldest blocks worth of unchanged balances into the top blocks, then you can discard the oldest blocks.
Or even a Distributed Hash Table system to store older blocks.
I'm hopeful that Futures moves large speculative transactions off-chain, and Lightning network moves small ones off chain, so that the number of on-chain transactions will significantly decrease, relative to the use of BTC as and investment/currency. Eventually the main chain will just be used for large settlement transactions.
Click-bait headlines, obvious spam, incomprehensible headlines, headlines that violate sub formatting rules, headlines that are already on the front page, headlines with spoilers...
Those are the majority of my post downvotes on reddit.
Slashdot Mirror
*Yawn* this is just Bitcoin being Bitcoin.
Buy what you can afford to lose (Slot Machine/Cigarette/Beer money); then don't look at it for at least a month.
Whoever mods this Offtopic is wrong.
Trump being president is a big part of why Bitcoin is rising this year.
Instability and uncertainty over possible war in Korea is driving people there to buy a currency that they'll be able to access if they have to suddenly flee the country.
Eastern Europeans afraid of Russia now the the US has all but abandoned NATO.
The US is losing it's global influence, so the Dollar is losing some of it's Store of Value ability.
Liquid currency has a value; Bitcoins are cheaper to produce than the same value in US Pennys.
https://lightning.network/
19.3K USD
Really should have called it 'Banana Stand Fund'
I have, and he's correct.
Free housing is available if you just don't smoke or drink on the premises. I have a friend who sleeps on the street because he'd rather smoke than have shelter.
they are raising awareness that BTC has real value.
A node can run with only recent blocks, as long as the other data is available on the network.
If could be made prunable; just copy the oldest blocks worth of unchanged balances into the top blocks, then you can discard the oldest blocks.
Or even a Distributed Hash Table system to store older blocks.
I'm hopeful that Futures moves large speculative transactions off-chain, and Lightning network moves small ones off chain, so that the number of on-chain transactions will significantly decrease, relative to the use of BTC as and investment/currency. Eventually the main chain will just be used for large settlement transactions.
https://twitter.com/BitmexRekt...
The fools who shorted are already getting squeezed, and losing their money.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com...
The main argument against is __something that didn't happen in reality__
It sounds like Amazon is abusing their dominant market position in one market to lock out competitors in another.
Blocking Youtube is the nice way, complaints to EU/US government would cost Amazon a LOT more.
If you don't scan everything in color, you won't know if color information is lost.
A black and white picture of a Panda might be fine, but you might end up not seeing the red blood in it's fur.
Interesting, but good luck ever getting a job as a known leaker.
Hmmm, I am a Notary with access to a laser engraver to make notary seals...
A dog having 10 puppies is a lot of dogs; but when those puppies each have 10 puppies...
Click-bait headlines, obvious spam, incomprehensible headlines, headlines that violate sub formatting rules, headlines that are already on the front page, headlines with spoilers...
Those are the majority of my post downvotes on reddit.
The source is a decentralized global network, if you can't figure out how to access it, WTF are you doing on /.?
Yeah, there is room to grow, but 1000% a year is not gonna happen forever.
Sell them tomorrow for a profit; It'll be over $12k before the end of the week
minus the banks.
which is a big plus.
Which never happened: https://www.smithsonianmag.com...
Gonna have to do better than fictional examples.
Who is 'They'?