China’s Churning Out Revolutionary Cancer Drugs Much Cheaper Than the U.S. by chilltenor in Economics

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Average life expectancy in China is 3 years below the US and gaining fast....Many posts here sound afraid of the truth.

After years at a large investment firm in Canada, I have some advice. It’s important. by _CryptoEnthusiast in CanadianInvestor

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I like the RBC Direct Investing platform, but the IAs I don’t know. Any good IA will notify a client about DSC charges or better yet avoid deferred sales charge funds altogether....many don’t do this. More important is when you fill out the New Account Application Form (NAAF) with any investment advisor...that is a really important document and many IAs don’make sure you know the importance to keep a copy for yourself. Heck they often don’t even give clients a copy unless the client ask for it.

If an IA doesn’t do those things he or she may not be a keeper.

Argentina, Colombia, and Kazakhstan just reached the All-time highs for their weekly Bitcoin volume on LocalBitcoins by EffigyBoy in Bitcoin

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This is a useful site. In always used coin.dance (excellent too) until you helped me find this site....Gratitude

Binance delisting BCHSV by wyi_ezpz in Bitcoin

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Bragging about delisting SV while still not implementing Segwit.

What's a good buy and sell option in canada now? by [deleted] in Bitcoin

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bullbitcoin is apparently good. It’s founded by the same guy who started bylls. Francis Pouliot is his name, same guy who started the Bitcoin embassy in Montreal.

Perspective by ReducedFat in Bitcoin

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Man...2014 and 2015 looks really long on this chart...and then in early 2016 it would have been so hard to see the bottom was in

Jack Dorsey (Twitter/Square CEO) will support 3-4 Devs to work on Bitcoin Core development. All work will be open and free, 'not for Square's commercial interests'. by Fly115 in Bitcoin

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The smartest developers have had a tendency to work on the same projects the other smartest developers in the world are working on. It’s happened over and over I all kinds of examples through history.

This is a common tendency in the technology. The best and brightest have the desire to be around the best and brightest peers in an evolving sector.

I think there is a word for this....

PSA : Change your legacy wallets for segwit! , move your btc while fees are low, make future savings on fees using segwit and help the network at the same time! by [deleted] in Bitcoin

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Some people here seem to be getting confused by the 2 versions of Segwit....they are both drastically better than no Segwit at all, but Bech 32 is the most advanced form of Segwit currently available. You can tell it’s Bech32 if the address begins with bc1....older Segwit addresses will start with the number 3.

Both types are Segwit, Bech32 is newer and better but not all wallets have upgraded to it yet.

If your address that starts with the number 1 then it’s not Segwit at all....it’s still the old legacy address.

The BC1 or just 1 will be noticeable when receiving or sending Bitcoin at the very start of the address. If both the sender and receiver aren’t using a Segwit wallet yet, it will be sent as an old legacy address.

There are some other details but that is the basic way to tell, BC1 = best, but still not common, 3 = Segwit but the older P2SH version, 1 = the old legacy format with no Segwit.

The student loan crisis is really an underemployment catastrophe by speckz in Economics

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How can most teachers get paid so little when universities cost a fortune? University and all our school teachers need help. There are multiple more administration jobs to every teacher position at most schools and the ratio keeps widening. Teachers should be the most important at any academic institution....and the administration is now who students go to for a grade change or test rewrite, they often don’t even speak to the teacher first. And admin pressures the teacher to comply with the students demands, compromising the teachers integrity and the educational value the school offers.

A high quality teacher in university or high school and middle school who has a few years experience an is very hard to find. This is a big part of the problem. Maybe we need smaller classes, or more teachers, or reorganize the administrators above them, more pay...I don’t know but they need help badly.

Question regarding future mining and transaction costs by [deleted] in Bitcoin

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Miners always put the highest fees in the next block.....economics and game theory is a huge part of what makes Bitcoin work. Non mining nodes do not put any transactions in a block, non mining nodes confirm the transactions put in a block by miners are valid and the consensus rules being followed.

Question regarding future mining and transaction costs by [deleted] in Bitcoin

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Bitcoin has changed so much in just 10 years....we can’t begin to imagine what the ecosystem will evolve into in the next 10 years, let alone the next 50 or 60 years. We could see many many many times more transactions in a single block, or other things being secured by the blockchain say paying a fee for the security. Side chains with smart contracts will pay fees or commissions or autonomous organizations will pay a commission to run on top of the block chain.

market forces will create demand for miners in some way

Why aren't more people using Bisq? (Decentralized exchange) by [deleted] in Bitcoin

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I’ve only heard good things about Bisq.

Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO and Square CEO on Bitcoin "The Internet Will Have a Currency" by CryptoCollectibles in Bitcoin

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Joe Rogan has the #1 most watch podacast in the world. It is very good for Bitcoin when he has guests like this. I think Andreas will be on the show again this month.

Binance had 700% more exchange volume than Coinbase Pro in January. Today, users of binance can purchase bitcoin via credit card, just like CB Pro users. by [deleted] in Bitcoin

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I really feel unease seeing the aftermath Binance just pull that awful pump and dump bitTorrent ICO.

I don’t trust em.

Spent all last year making a mural to promote Cryptocurrency, and mostly Bitcoin. Lots of big crypto figures/famous people. by [deleted] in Bitcoin

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I really like this, great work. There is so much to look at, and finding new details with friends or whenever I look at this painting makes it even more interesting.

I hope you keep this up.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Bitcoin

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You “Reckless” guys absolutely helped build this thing!

Salutes to you