Forum: Soap Box
2021-04-09, 14:12
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Replies: 44
Views: 919
What about Bitcoin Core? Anyone running it has...
What about Bitcoin Core? Anyone running it has the entire blockchain, and their receiving address is local on the system where the process runs. There is an encryption option for the wallet as well...
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Forum: Soap Box
2021-04-08, 17:51
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Replies: 44
Views: 919
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Forum: Soap Box
2021-04-07, 16:43
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Replies: 44
Views: 919
It is the sender which pays the fees. Take an...
It is the sender which pays the fees. Take an exchange, for example. If someone trades other coins for Bitcoins, a fee is charged. If someone does a withdrawal to another location, a fee is charged....
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Forum: Science & Technology
2021-04-06, 23:46
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Replies: 188
Views: 8,911
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Forum: Soap Box
2021-04-06, 23:26
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Replies: 44
Views: 919
I see your point. A share of a stock.
I have...
I see your point. A share of a stock.
I have s small holding in Coinbase which is in U.S. Dollars. It fluctuates very little. If I move a portion of it to my bank account, is this when it actually...
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Forum: Soap Box
2021-04-06, 19:14
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Replies: 172
Views: 29,399
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Forum: Soap Box
2021-04-06, 19:09
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Replies: 44
Views: 919
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Forum: Soap Box
2021-04-05, 15:46
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Replies: 44
Views: 919
For a very long time, holders of Bitcoin, for...
For a very long time, holders of Bitcoin, for example, had extremely few sources to buy items and services with their coins. Having crypto-only merchants seemed to be the original intent, but failed....
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Forum: Soap Box
2021-04-04, 16:17
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Replies: 44
Views: 919
I agree.
To date, mining has been called...
I agree.
To date, mining has been called "proof-of work." There is one coin, called Ethereum, which is in the process of switching to "proof-of-stake." In their case, mining will become...
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Forum: Soap Box
2021-04-04, 00:47
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Replies: 44
Views: 919
I read earlier today that Bitcoin is increasing...
I read earlier today that Bitcoin is increasing its mining difficulty by 6%, I believe it was. Who does this benefit, I wondered? Utility companies, for one. Those using ASIC's for Bitcoin burn more...
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Forum: Factoring
2021-04-04, 00:11
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Replies: 18
Views: 462
In the case of big businesses and information...
In the case of big businesses and information gatherers, everyone is fair game. Just taking a guess, web browsers, and those who own them, are the biggest culprits.They store a person history and who...
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Forum: Factoring
2021-04-02, 18:27
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Replies: 18
Views: 462
I feel a person tends to stick with what they...
I feel a person tends to stick with what they learned starting out. For me, it was M$-DOS in 1988. I believe there may have been some Unix dialects at the time. I actually saw a Unix system for the...
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Forum: Soap Box
2021-04-02, 17:52
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Replies: 44
Views: 919
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Forum: Lounge
2021-03-28, 00:25
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Replies: 1,700
Views: 147,844
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Forum: Lounge
2021-03-26, 17:38
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Replies: 107
Views: 4,927
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Forum: Lounge
2021-03-24, 17:39
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Replies: 1,338
Views: 109,096
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Forum: Reading
2021-03-23, 17:05
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,563
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Forum: Lounge
2021-03-21, 17:42
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Replies: 1,700
Views: 147,844
Gene Kranz is still living. Chris Kraft passed...
Gene Kranz is still living. Chris Kraft passed away in 2019.
I imagine NASA pulled in everybody to get Apollo 13 home. Their creative on-the-fly engineering to get the lithium hydroxide canisters...
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Forum: Lounge
2021-03-20, 17:13
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Replies: 107
Views: 4,927
Greensburg, Kansas...
Greensburg, Kansas (https://www.greensburgks.org/). May 4, 2007. A community of less than 1,000 people was scrubbed to the ground by an F5 tornado. There were 11 fatalities. Very little was...
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Forum: Lounge
2021-03-19, 16:38
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Replies: 107
Views: 4,927
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Forum: Science & Technology
2021-03-18, 16:18
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Replies: 188
Views: 8,911
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Forum: Lounge
2021-03-18, 16:09
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Replies: 107
Views: 4,927
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Forum: Lounge
2021-03-18, 01:52
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Replies: 107
Views: 4,927
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Forum: Lounge
2021-03-17, 19:02
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Replies: 107
Views: 4,927
This could be a deadly day for those living in...
This could be a deadly day for those living in the Southeast U.S. A major tornado outbreak is expected in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama. The NWS indicates large, long-track tornado's are very...
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Forum: Science & Technology
2021-03-17, 18:40
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Replies: 188
Views: 8,911
Wait times at any VA can be lengthy. I used to...
Wait times at any VA can be lengthy. I used to take a neighbor for his appointments in Louisville, KY, back in the 1980's. It seemed like an all day deal, but it probably was not. I remember the...
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