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A video by Luca Stricagnoli:-Giampy (November 20, 2017, 03:17 PM)
^ That was good! Reminded me of this one...-wraith808 (November 20, 2017, 04:37 PM)
Jon Gomm:
BTW - his music is "pay what you want".-Edvard (January 10, 2012, 12:30 PM)
The Blockstream fanboys would further point at bitcoin’s new uselessness as a sign of its success, believe it or not, drawing the analogy “nobody goes to that restaurant anymore, because it’s too crowded”, with the subtext that a crowded restaurant must be successful. But this is not success; this is utter failure to scale exponentially when you’re an Internet startup, and it spells dooooooooooom.
And so here we are in 2017, with a bitcoin that nobody I know uses for anything practical (last time I used it for something was about six weeks ago, when I bought a burger with bitcoin, which cost me about $2.50 in transaction fees, just as much as the burger itself; at least I didn’t have to wait eight to ten hours for the burger). What’s new on the scene in 2017 is something called a US Dollar Tether.
You see, you can’t buy big quantities of bitcoin — which is more or less “Blockstream stock” at this point — directly, not in amounts of millions of US Dollars. So this thing called Tether popped up, where a company named Tether claimed to issue US Dollar Tether, where one Tether was supposed to be good for exactly one US dollar. Today, the bitcoin price (the price of something that is unreliable, slow, and expensive, and which nobody uses anymore for anything remotely practical) isn’t driven up by people buying it for US Dollars anymore, but by institutions buying it for large amounts of Tether, which is “kind-of-dollars-but-not-really-but-we-still-pretend-so”.
The company Tether insists that they have backing; every Tether has a US Dollar backing it. There has been no proof to this. There have just been regular conjurings-up of new batches of ten, twenty, thirty million Tethers — not US Dollars, but Tethers — that are spent pushing up the bitcoin price as though the Tethers were dollars, and this happens basically every time the Blockstream PR machine happens to need a little boost. Maybe the Tethers are backed by dollars on a one-to-one ratio, as is asserted and refused to be proven. Maybe they aren’t. Sure as hell doesn’t look like they are.
This whole story reeks of a lot of people going to a lot of prison in a few years.
I don't send my friends BTC. I send fiat.-Renegade (November 10, 2017, 11:21 PM)
There are some changes, i.e. different keyboard,-wraith808 (November 14, 2017, 08:37 AM)
And I think Deo was referring to OneDrive Files-on-demand.-wraith808 (November 16, 2017, 07:09 AM)
Windows 10 was a big improvement over Windows 8.1 in most important ways, but it made a big change to the way OneDrive syncing worked. In Windows 8.1, you could see all the files you had stored in OneDrive, but the operating system would only actually download and open the file when you needed to open it. At least for PCs that usually have Internet connections, this was a neat way to offer cloud file syncing without consuming gigabytes of space for infrequently used files on every computer you were signed into.
But the behavior could be error-prone—apps could attempt to open the placeholder files created by OneDrive rather than the files themselves—and it could create confusion about which files were actually available offline. So in the initial releases of Windows 10, Microsoft changed the behavior to be more Dropbox-esque. All OneDrive files are now downloaded to your PC when you sign in, though as with Dropbox you can choose to only sync selected folders based on what you need to have available at all times.
In the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, OneDrive will change yet again. "OneDrive Files On-Demand" restores the old "placeholder" concept from Windows 8.1, but with improved handling of placeholder files and tweaked Windows Explorer integration that makes it clearer what's going on. Because downloading and opening those placeholder files is now handled by the filesystem driver rather than a shell extension, you should no longer run into problems where apps try to open the placeholders instead of the actual files—any app, including the command line, will be able to trigger a file download, making the experience more seamless and reliable.
Another Free Game on Humble: KILLER IS DEAD - NIGHTMARE EDITION
There's probably a deadline for Steam activation before the key becomes invalid, but I don't know what that is.-mwb1100 (November 16, 2017, 01:23 PM)
@Deozaan, this must be a later version of the FCU(it's Version 1709 (OS Build 16299.64), not 1709 Build 16299.19).-Arizona Hot (November 16, 2017, 08:21 AM)
Thanks to Mozilla for breaking things during an automatic update I had no choice to install simply because I tried to use my browser!-Deozaan (November 15, 2017, 02:53 PM)
Well, I'd downloaded, but I hadn't installed. I think I'll wait on that until the all-clear at this point...-wraith808 (November 15, 2017, 04:27 PM)
I [...] encountered the one thing that immediately set it apart to me. It created a drive on my machine- a virtual drive that does not store files locally.
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So the 14GB that I have from pCloud shows up as a drive on my PC, but doesn't take up space on my PC.-wraith808 (November 15, 2017, 05:03 PM)
Why do women have cleaner minds than men?
They change theirs more often.-dantheman (November 07, 2017, 07:36 AM)
I download the Free Keylogger but it was blocked as malware
Is there a tested solution?-kalos (November 12, 2017, 02:29 PM)
The fastest and cheapest transaction fee is currently 950 satoshis/byte, shown in green at the top.
For the median transaction size of 226 bytes, this results in a fee of 214,700 satoshis.
The Core devs rock.-Renegade (November 10, 2017, 11:21 PM)
But, for the block size, that's a bit misleading.
The idea is to off-load transactions into Lightning Networks. That will solve scaling issue massively.
Those will take off next year.-Renegade (November 10, 2017, 11:21 PM)
This is just the beginning. There's a long way to go.-Renegade (November 10, 2017, 11:21 PM)
Right now Bitcoin is NOTHING in the financial world. It's a blip. A curiosity.-Renegade (November 10, 2017, 11:21 PM)
If you're not in already, do your due diligence and think about whether BTC has a place in your portfolio.-Renegade (November 10, 2017, 11:21 PM)
