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Their growth was reasonably organic if you were following the popularity of exchanges

By interesting I assume you mean a scam since I've never seen anything technically interesting from a token sale

But here the VCs are the criminals and the predators not the victim of the scam. VCs are more sophisticated to avoid being the victim

Yes fraud is possible with credit cards. You correctly left out Bitcoin. As fraudulent payments are not possible with Bitcoin

This article is incoherent. Say what you like about Bitcoin but fraudulent payments are not possible. And yes Gabe is right that people in crypto are criminals running scam projects

Yep. It comes down to information asymmetry. Harder to trick and scam accredited investors

Most token sales make good money with very low effort scams

Is there a cryptocurrency token sale that's not designed to defraud the buyers?

Not going to work. True blockchains have their coins pre distributed to VC at a discount. This open money system can't work without insiders

Freezing bank accounts is an ugly overreach. Going to give sympathy to the protesters

Yep. The pseudoscience tech is the sales pitch and the token sales is the motivation for all "crypto" digit tokens

Most people don't understand this stuff so they'll take it at face value even though it's likely a scam

Google translate I've used myself to test my pronunciation when learning a language. Seems to be a good test. Native speakers pass and poor pronunciation fails.

Reading the author tweet he comes across as silly. Not surprised at the negative reactions. I don't like the Tesla update but a Tesla UI is a huge improvement over other vehicles

New UI is not good compared to the old one. But I'd take a Tesla UI any day of a maze of buttons

100% I have this problem every time and looks like the new UI will be worse. They could detect the driver from the weight

Travel. People think traveling is escapist and not helpful. This I don't believe. Yes you'll drag all your problems with you but now you have no excuses and you'll have to fix them. But you'll have a fresh perspective on everything and a broader perspective on life. You'll understand yourself and the now bigger world better

Why? It's a waste of money and not economically efficient

I think you replied to the wrong comment. Mind was about a poor country wasting govt money on populist subsidies

It's possible to use coal for power without subsidies (coal is cheap) and bonus it's even more economically efficient

Fantastic news would be getting rid of the coal subsidy not this meaningless theater

Both subsidizing dirty coal and using it to mine bitcoin both sound criminal to me. Subsidizing coal is the most evil while mining bitcoin with it is a meaningless act that's fun to dislike

They need a working theory for how this PoS will work first. Wishful thinking and handwaving does not equal theory. PoW is the only tech that has solved the problem so far. Many things were tried before bitcoin with no results

Ethereum uses pow. Their pos mechanism doesn't work and is a perpetual coming soon promise

Yes. How dare you be a victim of a crime

Why? Is there evidence that were in on the criminal conspiracy? All I've heard it they were victims of it

Then who's the market? If you are not in the business of selling tokens to suckers or gamblers then you don't have a business

An idea that's been done many times already. Turns out 99% of these projects are scams used to sell tokens to suckers. If you're not in bed with the scammers you are the mark

Someone has never used Rust

So now we can't trust our photos to be fake? Let's get rid of the ML. Optional post processing only. This is why an iPhone photo won't be able to be used in court

One perspective to consider is the length of these restrictions. Other countries have had years of lockdowns and restrictions. New Zealanders were going to concerts while the world was in lockdown. Even if New Zealand's restrictions have been strict the restrictions have been intermittent and only in some regions

Actually the domestic restrictions on people in NZ have been much less than other countries. They got negative press for proactive restrictions on an exponentially spreading virus. Lockdown after 1 detection

Well it resulted in one of the lowest restrictions on people in any country besides international travel. Giving people freedom to meet people and work is good