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Triv888on Bitcoin has few attributes of money but all the attributes of a collectible

You are missing a lot on what bitcoin actually is and what it could be (because it can change)... which is hopefully why it will keep an edge on other cryptos.

Triv888on Bitcoin may consume as much energy as all data centers globally

it may or may not... but it doesn't

Triv888on GameStop drops by 40% in 25 minutes

when you short a stock, you don't own it... you sell it, and owe it. I know that the stock market is screwed up, but I think that they know that.

Triv888on GameStop drops by 40% in 25 minutes

That whole GME thing is not stupid... institutions are holding 106% of GME stocks... not sure how much non-institutions are holding. What is stupid is what the government is allowing institutions to do.

> % Held by Institutions 106.22

https://invest.ameritrade.com/grid/p/site#r=jPage/https://re...

Triv888on Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died

The leader gets more credits because he often gives direction.

Triv888on Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet

> None of them are actually money

only because the US Gov didn't classify it as money for tax purposes...

I appreciate all of your work but I think that you are wrong with this comment... I think that talking about leaving platforms that have monopolies can spur innovation.

Triv888on We may soon have city-spanning 900 MHz mesh networks

A true open wireless mesh network is what the internet needs to become to overcome censorship and similar issues.

Triv888on Jack Dorsey is attempting to sell his first tweet as an NFT

This is like some of those pre-mined crypto coins

Triv888on 30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server

which one is your favorite alternative?

Triv888on Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

While it is sad that it is news worthy, it goes against Steve Jobs' ideology...

Triv888on Facebook’s ad campaign shows how worried it is about Apple's privacy changes

It came back with my linux distribution's provided update... not sure what hapenned but I didn't remove it.

Triv888on Two days with Volkswagen’s electric ID.4

Maybe the battery would need to get replaced by then...

Triv888on Facebook’s ad campaign shows how worried it is about Apple's privacy changes

And the refresh button disappeared in the latest Firefox (v84.0.2)? I have to use F5, but still 404s 80% of the time... looks like a similar problem that Twitter has been having for months (sometimes it says "content is not available to you" unless you refresh).

Triv888on Two days with Volkswagen’s electric ID.4

If you pay $17,000 more fore the electric car, it would take many years to pay for itself... maybe too many.

Triv888on Coinbase mafia shows how tight a circle holds sway over Bitcoin

You can only wish... The same thing happens to stock brokers and they don't get investigated, most of the time.

Triv888on Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble

Bitcoin is whatever the majority decides... They could also increase the supply if they wanted to, or whatever other change comes to mind? Think of it as Bitcoin 3.0, 4.0, etc...

Triv888on Ask HN: What ads would you like to be shown online?

I dont like targeted ads because they create yet another content bubble...

Triv888on Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble

Proof of stake would solve that?

Triv888on Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble

Isnt that one thing that the lightning network can solve?

Triv888on Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble

If you stop mining bitcoins, Bitcoin would not disappear....

Triv888on Amazon rainforest plots sold via Facebook Marketplace ads

They only block Trump ... everything else takes legal actions...

Triv888on Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning

In addition to that, you probably don't get into contact with fake contacts very often... it is just a smoke mirror to make the users think that they have privacy...

Triv888on How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size

Theare essentially compressing their app... ?

Triv888on Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves

Reddit was started with fake content and fake users, I think.

Triv888on 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

Thats the only good thing about it... when the X clipboard has an error message in it that I want to search about, I dont need to worry about the search box being already full

Triv888on Can Governments Stop Bitcoin?

They already slowed it down by taxing it like it isnt a currency.

Triv888on New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped

I remember editing a virus to avoid detection, all I needed to do was switch 2 lines of assembly with each other (the order of execution for these 2 lines didn't matter)