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    • IRJI
      IRJ @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said in Crypto Predictions:

      @momurda said in Crypto Predictions:

      @scottalanmiller said in Crypto Predictions:

      @momurda said in Crypto Predictions:

      @computerchip Im sorry but no. Not only do gold and diamonds have zero value as well as crypto, actual currency has value because governments say it does.
      Cyrpto will never be given that status.
      Crypto currency peddlers are like TOR users. Generally bad people doing gernerally bad things to other people. Sex traffickers, child porn peddlers, other people who want to do bad things with fake money anonymously.

      Several governments have already done this. It's not just predicted that this will happen more and more, it's already happened.

      Which ones? the ones that host shady tax and banking laws for tax evaders in the US and around the world?
      The EU? Not likely.
      https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/european-bankers-scoff-at-bitcoin-for-its-risk-huge-energy-inefficiency/
      The US? The US is so corrupt from bottom to top at this point it wouldnt surprise me if the US becomes the only government to accept bitcoin, just so thievery by US leaders can be accomplished more easily.
      Russia? Yes probably, but they choose oppression and tyranny over and over again for the last 200 years, so yea.
      India? They cant even provide reliable water and electricity for the majority of their population. I am sure accepting bitcoin is high on their list of todos. Oh wait, no it isnt, it is officially banned.
      I could go on, but the reality is you can say whatever you want, your actions define you.
      Mining bitcoin is stupid as fuck and a huge waste of electricity, and supports the worst sort of criminals mostly.
      Not even started talking about how making fake money by running a math program on your computer is like... boasting about being a millionaire even though you inherited all the money from someone else without earning it, or becoming rich by being a 'day trader'.

      So basically you just listed WHY crypto is the new currency. You don't trust any country or currency system currently, crypto might be the fix to all of that. So now I see why crypto is so important, because we can't trust anything but crypto!

      Haha! He obviously doesn't understand the decentralized nature of crypto currency. Because his whole response proved why crypto is so important to fixing corruption.

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      • IRJI
        IRJ @momurda
        last edited by

        @momurda said in Crypto Predictions:

        @scottalanmiller said in Crypto Predictions:

        @momurda said in Crypto Predictions:

        @computerchip Im sorry but no. Not only do gold and diamonds have zero value as well as crypto, actual currency has value because governments say it does.
        Cyrpto will never be given that status.
        Crypto currency peddlers are like TOR users. Generally bad people doing gernerally bad things to other people. Sex traffickers, child porn peddlers, other people who want to do bad things with fake money anonymously.

        Several governments have already done this. It's not just predicted that this will happen more and more, it's already happened.

        Which ones? the ones that host shady tax and banking laws for tax evaders in the US and around the world?
        The EU? Not likely.
        https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/european-bankers-scoff-at-bitcoin-for-its-risk-huge-energy-inefficiency/
        The US? The US is so corrupt from bottom to top at this point it wouldnt surprise me if the US becomes the only government to accept bitcoin, just so thievery by US leaders can be accomplished more easily.
        Russia? Yes probably, but they choose oppression and tyranny over and over again for the last 200 years, so yea.
        India? They cant even provide reliable water and electricity for the majority of their population. I am sure accepting bitcoin is high on their list of todos. Oh wait, no it isnt, it is officially banned.
        I could go on, but the reality is you can say whatever you want, your actions define you.
        Mining bitcoin is stupid as fuck and a huge waste of electricity, and supports the worst sort of criminals mostly.
        Not even started talking about how making fake money by running a math program on your computer is like... boasting about being a millionaire even though you inherited all the money from someone else without earning it, or becoming rich by being a 'day trader'.

        The US has more reason than any else to be against crypto. As the dollar has been the world's standard for awhile now. It is slowly drifting away, but would ALWAYS be in the United States best interest to use the dollar so what you said makes absolutely no sense.

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        • ObsolesceO
          Obsolesce
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          What happens when cryptocurrency isn't so cryptic any more? Like when quantum computing comes out?

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @Obsolesce
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            @tim_g said in Crypto Predictions:

            What happens when cryptocurrency isn't so cryptic any more? Like when quantum computing comes out?

            Hopefully by then we won't need money. . .

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            • travisdh1T
              travisdh1 @Obsolesce
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              @tim_g said in Crypto Predictions:

              What happens when cryptocurrency isn't so cryptic any more? Like when quantum computing comes out?

              We've got quantum computers already, just ask IBM, they'd love to sell you one. They're more like the early 70s computers the size of an entire room for a 10-qbit cpu. They're also very slow because of the sampling process needed to figure out what state the qbit is in.

              They would reduce the amount of time needed to break the encryption by an order of magnitude, but you'd need multiple orders of magnitude to get a realistic time scale.

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              • ObsolesceO
                Obsolesce
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                β€œThe elliptic curve signature scheme used by Bitcoin is much more at risk, and could be completely broken by a quantum computer as early as 2027,”.

                https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609408/quantum-computers-pose-imminent-threat-to-bitcoin-security/

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                • IRJI
                  IRJ @IRJ
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                  @irj said in Crypto Predictions:

                  @computerchip said in Crypto Predictions:

                  Even if we have seen to floor (which is I believe it's close,) I don't think we will see 20k again until around October 2018 at the earliest.

                  Honestly, I think bitcoin's days as market leader are numbered and we may never see $20k again on bitcoin, but the market will continue to grow overall. I am looking at litecoin to move into the top 3 next week. I htink by the end of the year, there may be an obvious gradual move of another coin to start gaining on bitcoin.

                  Hmmmmmm.....

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
                    last edited by

                    @tim_g said in Crypto Predictions:

                    What happens when cryptocurrency isn't so cryptic any more? Like when quantum computing comes out?

                    Just need new quantum currency.

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                    • IRJI
                      IRJ
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                      http://www.ibtimes.com/paying-income-taxes-bitcoin-us-state-may-accept-cryptocurrencies-2020-2654857

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                      • guyinpvG
                        guyinpv
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                        My knowledge of crypto is out of date by about 10 years. I used to mine when it pretty much only BTC, then I got into LiteCoin and DoggCoin etc.

                        When my wallet became like a full gigabyte and I wanted a little processing power for myself, I kinda fell out of it.

                        Now there are 1700 crypto coins and I don't have a clue what makes one "better" or "worse" than another. They are all just blockchain right? Or wallet services? Or fancy programs and apps that surround it?

                        Why are there 1700 cryptocoins? What is still being discovered that makes one or another better? A cuter mascot?

                        How are they solving some of the inherent problems with it? For example theft or wallets being lost or stolen? Those coins are just gone forever, never to be back in the market? This seems to me like a currency with an absolute max number of coins (and ability to lose them is not uncommon), available coins will simply dwindle over time.

                        Is the problem of humongous wallets and processing power needed, solved? I don't want to lug around 10GB of the world's daily transactions on my computer all the time, or forget to open an app and have to wait 3 days for it to catch up with updates.

                        With a decentralized nature of these systems, who do you complain to about bad transactions? Is there a refund system like credit cards have chargebacks? If someone steals from you can you complain to someone and get it back? Didn't used to be able to.

                        Like I said, my knowledge is about 10 years old. I need a refresher and understand why so many, what are the real differences, what makes one better than another, how are wallets and security handled now?

                        And I'm supposed to be a nerd and I can't keep on top of this. What are the chances the general public are ever going to care to learn or use it or anything else? Why I get change back from a store, I get dimes and nickles and dollars. I don't get a choice of 82 different currency variations with all different exchange rates.
                        I don't see adoption happening until people can say, here, THIS one is "cryptocurrency". Try it. Not 862 variations, no doubt created by people hoping to win the lottery, take a bunch of coins early, hope it goes well so they can cash out later. I don't know.

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                        • computerchipC
                          computerchip @guyinpv
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                          @guyinpv said in Crypto Predictions:

                          My knowledge of crypto is out of date by about 10 years. I used to mine when it pretty much only BTC, then I got into LiteCoin and DoggCoin etc.

                          When my wallet became like a full gigabyte and I wanted a little processing power for myself, I kinda fell out of it.

                          Now there are 1700 crypto coins and I don't have a clue what makes one "better" or "worse" than another. They are all just blockchain right? Or wallet services? Or fancy programs and apps that surround it?

                          Why are there 1700 cryptocoins? What is still being discovered that makes one or another better? A cuter mascot?

                          How are they solving some of the inherent problems with it? For example theft or wallets being lost or stolen? Those coins are just gone forever, never to be back in the market? This seems to me like a currency with an absolute max number of coins (and ability to lose them is not uncommon), available coins will simply dwindle over time.

                          Is the problem of humongous wallets and processing power needed, solved? I don't want to lug around 10GB of the world's daily transactions on my computer all the time, or forget to open an app and have to wait 3 days for it to catch up with updates.

                          With a decentralized nature of these systems, who do you complain to about bad transactions? Is there a refund system like credit cards have chargebacks? If someone steals from you can you complain to someone and get it back? Didn't used to be able to.

                          Like I said, my knowledge is about 10 years old. I need a refresher and understand why so many, what are the real differences, what makes one better than another, how are wallets and security handled now?

                          And I'm supposed to be a nerd and I can't keep on top of this. What are the chances the general public are ever going to care to learn or use it or anything else? Why I get change back from a store, I get dimes and nickles and dollars. I don't get a choice of 82 different currency variations with all different exchange rates.
                          I don't see adoption happening until people can say, here, THIS one is "cryptocurrency". Try it. Not 862 variations, no doubt created by people hoping to win the lottery, take a bunch of coins early, hope it goes well so they can cash out later. I don't know.

                          I stopped reading after you said your knowledge of crypto was 10 years outdated and when you said doggcoin.

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                          • computerchipC
                            computerchip
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                            Anyone who thinks "crypto" has no value, can take a look at this crypto.

                            https://wowtoken.info/

                            πŸ˜ƒ

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                            • ObsolesceO
                              Obsolesce @computerchip
                              last edited by

                              @computerchip said in Crypto Predictions:

                              Anyone who thinks "crypto" has no value, can take a look at this crypto.

                              https://wowtoken.info/

                              πŸ˜ƒ

                              That's not cryptocurrency

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                              • computerchipC
                                computerchip @Obsolesce
                                last edited by

                                @tim_g said in Crypto Predictions:

                                cryptocurrency

                                Well...ok, you got me, it's a digital currency.

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                                • coliverC
                                  coliver @computerchip
                                  last edited by

                                  @computerchip said in Crypto Predictions:

                                  @tim_g said in Crypto Predictions:

                                  cryptocurrency

                                  Well...ok, you got me, it's a digital currency.

                                  Eve online's ISK is the defacto digital currency. It can easily be transfered to any number of currencies and it's been incredibly stable.

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                                  • IRJI
                                    IRJ
                                    last edited by

                                    I was definitely a nocoiner for awhile...

                                    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nocoiner

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      https://www.ccn.com/south-korean-top-crypto-official-dies-amid-mounting-regulatory-pressure/

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                                      • guyinpvG
                                        guyinpv @computerchip
                                        last edited by

                                        @computerchip said in Crypto Predictions:

                                        @guyinpv said in Crypto Predictions:

                                        My knowledge of crypto is out of date by about 10 years. I used to mine when it pretty much only BTC, then I got into LiteCoin and DoggCoin etc.

                                        When my wallet became like a full gigabyte and I wanted a little processing power for myself, I kinda fell out of it.

                                        Now there are 1700 crypto coins and I don't have a clue what makes one "better" or "worse" than another. They are all just blockchain right? Or wallet services? Or fancy programs and apps that surround it?

                                        Why are there 1700 cryptocoins? What is still being discovered that makes one or another better? A cuter mascot?

                                        How are they solving some of the inherent problems with it? For example theft or wallets being lost or stolen? Those coins are just gone forever, never to be back in the market? This seems to me like a currency with an absolute max number of coins (and ability to lose them is not uncommon), available coins will simply dwindle over time.

                                        Is the problem of humongous wallets and processing power needed, solved? I don't want to lug around 10GB of the world's daily transactions on my computer all the time, or forget to open an app and have to wait 3 days for it to catch up with updates.

                                        With a decentralized nature of these systems, who do you complain to about bad transactions? Is there a refund system like credit cards have chargebacks? If someone steals from you can you complain to someone and get it back? Didn't used to be able to.

                                        Like I said, my knowledge is about 10 years old. I need a refresher and understand why so many, what are the real differences, what makes one better than another, how are wallets and security handled now?

                                        And I'm supposed to be a nerd and I can't keep on top of this. What are the chances the general public are ever going to care to learn or use it or anything else? Why I get change back from a store, I get dimes and nickles and dollars. I don't get a choice of 82 different currency variations with all different exchange rates.
                                        I don't see adoption happening until people can say, here, THIS one is "cryptocurrency". Try it. Not 862 variations, no doubt created by people hoping to win the lottery, take a bunch of coins early, hope it goes well so they can cash out later. I don't know.

                                        I stopped reading after you said your knowledge of crypto was 10 years outdated and when you said doggcoin.

                                        Well at least you're doing your part.

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                                        • computerchipC
                                          computerchip @guyinpv
                                          last edited by computerchip

                                          @guyinpv said in Crypto Predictions:

                                          @computerchip said in Crypto Predictions:

                                          @guyinpv said in Crypto Predictions:

                                          My knowledge of crypto is out of date by about 10 years. I used to mine when it pretty much only BTC, then I got into LiteCoin and DoggCoin etc.

                                          When my wallet became like a full gigabyte and I wanted a little processing power for myself, I kinda fell out of it.

                                          Now there are 1700 crypto coins and I don't have a clue what makes one "better" or "worse" than another. They are all just blockchain right? Or wallet services? Or fancy programs and apps that surround it?

                                          Why are there 1700 cryptocoins? What is still being discovered that makes one or another better? A cuter mascot?

                                          How are they solving some of the inherent problems with it? For example theft or wallets being lost or stolen? Those coins are just gone forever, never to be back in the market? This seems to me like a currency with an absolute max number of coins (and ability to lose them is not uncommon), available coins will simply dwindle over time.

                                          Is the problem of humongous wallets and processing power needed, solved? I don't want to lug around 10GB of the world's daily transactions on my computer all the time, or forget to open an app and have to wait 3 days for it to catch up with updates.

                                          With a decentralized nature of these systems, who do you complain to about bad transactions? Is there a refund system like credit cards have chargebacks? If someone steals from you can you complain to someone and get it back? Didn't used to be able to.

                                          Like I said, my knowledge is about 10 years old. I need a refresher and understand why so many, what are the real differences, what makes one better than another, how are wallets and security handled now?

                                          And I'm supposed to be a nerd and I can't keep on top of this. What are the chances the general public are ever going to care to learn or use it or anything else? Why I get change back from a store, I get dimes and nickles and dollars. I don't get a choice of 82 different currency variations with all different exchange rates.
                                          I don't see adoption happening until people can say, here, THIS one is "cryptocurrency". Try it. Not 862 variations, no doubt created by people hoping to win the lottery, take a bunch of coins early, hope it goes well so they can cash out later. I don't know.

                                          I stopped reading after you said your knowledge of crypto was 10 years outdated and when you said doggcoin.

                                          Well at least you're doing your part.

                                          The original crypto is not even 10 years old, man, so you got out right as it was getting started? πŸ˜ƒ

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                                          • computerchipC
                                            computerchip @scottalanmiller
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                                            @scottalanmiller

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Crypto Predictions:

                                            https://www.ccn.com/south-korean-top-crypto-official-dies-amid-mounting-regulatory-pressure/

                                            Interesting quote from the article: "He passed away while he was sleeping and [his] heart [had] already stopped beating when he was found dead.”

                                            It's always rough when you find them dead while their heart is still beating...

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