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Bluestein
11,083karma·5,744submissions·June 10, 2020
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So, after decades of lurking, I decided to join. Please be gentle :)
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"Dr. McCoy, who with Dr. Richey, did a similar series of experiments on Goat Island, San Francisco, used volunteers, who, so far as known, had not been exposed to the outbreak at all, also had ne…
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"January has seen more than $230 billion in on-chain stablecoin volume since the start of the month, according to data collected by The Block. That figure — $237.2 billion as of January 25 — repr…
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"The United States Navy airships U.S.S. Akron (ZRS-4) and U.S.S. Macon (ZRS-5) were designed for long-range scouting in support of fleet operations. Often referred to as flying aircraft carriers,…
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"ICQ, short for the phrase “I Seek You,” laid the groundwork for standalone instant messaging clients when it arrived in November 1996. Think about how long ago that was... Microsoft’s trailblazi…
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"Ministers must restart trade negotiations with Brussels immediately to sort out the 'baffling' array of post-Brexit rules and regulations that now threaten much of the UK’s export trad…
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"Russia adopted its cryptocurrency law in January, but this legislation does not provide a direct answer to some questions, including how local officials should deal with their crypto holdings. T…
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"The biggest retail bank in Russia is reportedly gearing up to launch its own proprietary stablecoin. According to the Russian news outlet Interfax, Sberbank has filed an application with the Cen…
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"Put another way, no bitcoin was 'double-spent' because no new coins were added to Bitcoin’s supply. Instead, the same coins from the same wallet were registered in two different blocks…
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"ETC Group’s bitcoin exchange-traded crypto (ETC) has become the first cryptocurrency ETP to pass the $100m assets under management (AUM) barrier just four months after launch." See - https…
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"Swiss SIX Exchange, Switzerland’s principal stock exchange, continues to expand its crypto products with a new Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded product, or ETP. On Jan. 13, SIX launched trading of …
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“The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you’re not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and…
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"IBM's mainframes of the 1960s are based on an interesting technology - Standard Modular System cards or SMS cards. These cards, created in the early years of transistorized computing, each …
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"Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia. Our research shows that people love two things: failed Microsoft technologies and obscure Javascript libraries. Naturally, we deci…
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"Their cash reserves were sometimes kegs of nails and broken glass with a layer of coin on top. Specie exhibited to the examiners at one bank was whisked through the trees to be exhibited at anot…
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"At the period the commissioners entered upon their labors, every portion of the state was flooded with a paper currency, issued by the institutions created under the general banking law. New org…
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"[As it is,] exchanges can easily continue to operate for years with whatever level of reserves they like. Nothing prevents exchange owners from spending cryptocurrency stored by users, or failin…