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itsdsmurrell··on Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019)
Yes, I agree, the article is very bad and I don't know how it got upvoted so highly here.
itsdsmurrell··on Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019)
This explanation misses a lot. When I watch an advert a second time, it seems to pass a lot faster than the first watch. My brain however has not changed at all. It seems that novelty is the main factor causing the perceived slowdown of time and that lack of novelty (less things surprise me as I age) makes time seem to pass more quickly. This also explains why staycations pass a lot faster than a trip somewhere new.
itsdsmurrell··on Bitcoin Is a Ponzi Scheme
You're looking for Bitcoin Cash, the Bitcoin that continued being a medium of exchange.
itsdsmurrell··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
Money printer go brr.
itsdsmurrell··on HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permanent web (2015)
What is that simpler protocol?
itsdsmurrell··on Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are unreliable
pauses to sip brawndo
itsdsmurrell··on A Detailed Guide to Using Feathers and Wedges (2020)
Can I use this in minecraft?
itsdsmurrell··on Why Monero
I'm glad you added the /s for the sake of the person you're replying to.
itsdsmurrell··on Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods
The real problem is how much the bank earns off the interest it charges you throughout your life while it had to do what?... create new money from nothing into the money supply with special permissions given to it by the government. This is why housing is so expensive to begin with. This bullshit needs to stop.
itsdsmurrell··on The uncanny absence of nihilism
Is there a point to this article?
itsdsmurrell··on Reddit raises $410M in new funding
This couldn't be further from the truth. You sound like a BTC maximalist.
itsdsmurrell··on Beetle walking upside down under water surface filmed in Australia
How is this a story. I've seen this myself.
itsdsmurrell··on A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python
Bitcoin Cash has taken the approach that Bitcoin should have. On chain scaling.
itsdsmurrell··on World Bank rejects El Salvador request for Bitcoin help
Yep, dead wrong. If you hand someone a private key, you now both have control of those coins.
itsdsmurrell··on Kelly Criterion – how to calculate optimal bet sizes
Probably depends on your aversion to losing it all. If it's a dollar go for it. If it's 100 dollars, again, take the bet. If it's your life savings of 50000 dollars and going to 0 would be worse for you than 70/30 doubling your money, you don't want to go for it.
itsdsmurrell··on El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
Correct, that's why many left and support Bitcoin Cash now.
itsdsmurrell··on Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor
If the fix is so simple (I do this all the time btw), why waste people's time?
itsdsmurrell··on Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor
Medium is the worst.
itsdsmurrell··on Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
Is this really your question?
itsdsmurrell··on Bitcoin Uses Far Less Energy Than Banking System and Gold Industry
cough Bitcoin Cash cough

Increasing the blocksize was always Satoshi's plan:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.msg15366#msg153...

This means that when the coinbase rewards run out, the fees pay for the mining. Small fees, keeping the network useful, for billions of transactions (bandwidth and storage costs decrease according to Moore's law). With this final state, individual on-chain transactions would not take much energy at all.

itsdsmurrell··on An analysis of Bitcoin's throughput bottlenecks
Correct, BTC is not peer to peer cash, try the real Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash.
itsdsmurrell··on An analysis of Bitcoin's throughput bottlenecks
They (the devs that control the repo that almost all miners run code from) chose to stifle the base layer to profit from higher layers using 'goat herders should be able to run a full node' as the excuse.
itsdsmurrell··on An analysis of Bitcoin's throughput bottlenecks
For anyone who joined late: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/61mxuj/block_size_limi...
itsdsmurrell··on An analysis of Bitcoin's throughput bottlenecks
Wrong, they are opposed to changes that will stop them from profiteering off higher layer solutions they provide.
itsdsmurrell··on An analysis of Bitcoin's throughput bottlenecks
Try Bitcoin Cash. The devs have full control over the BTC protocol.
itsdsmurrell··on Goldman Sachs executive quits after making millions from Dogecoin
Yes, many people miss this. It's meant to replace banks and provide an alternate system of money. I have my hopes on Bitcoin Cash for this.
itsdsmurrell··on Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digital Currency
This is great... easier rails into hard money (crypto).
itsdsmurrell··on Bitcoin Blockchain Visualization
Hey, this is amazing! Is it open source? I'd like to see if it's possible to apply to the Bitcoin Cash blockchain (the one that I support because I believe that BTC was intentionally stifled (not increasing the block size when it should have been) and is centralised at the repo level.
itsdsmurrell··on “My Octopus Teacher” defied convention
I'm just going to leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwS4e1P1yF4
itsdsmurrell··on Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director
Try Bitcoin Cash, they have https://cashfusion.org... it's like a mixer you can switch on in your wallet and because the fees are what they are meant to be (according to Satoshi - https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/2/), the mixing cost only a few pennies.
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