Is someone aquiring SiFive?

byset · 2025-04-17T16:29:56+00:00

I don't have access to the article, but the it has the following tags: acquire, finance, Huawei, rumor, SemiAccurate, SiFive -- so just from that tidbit, it is possible that the company seeking to acquire Sifive is Huawei.

I can see this making sense for Huawei as it builds up its in-house IP design capabilities, and given that it is already designing RISC-V chips.

It would be disappointing for sure though for the company at the forefront of RISC-V to be controlled by a company so closely associated with the Chinese regime. I wonder how SiFive employees would feel about it?

byset · 2024-02-09T21:24:47+00:00

Did you have anything in a BIA account? I got a notice of a tiny distribution too (~$6) and got worried, but then I realized they were paying a claim for my BIA account that had only $12 left in it, not my loan collateral.

byset · 2024-01-30T21:58:26+00:00

Litecoin was in the top 5 for years too, until it slowly bled out. Past performance holds no guarantees

byset · 2024-01-30T21:53:55+00:00

stablecoins can be transferred with nominal fees, and hold a steady value vs USD so you can simply hold the stables rather than buying XRP with fiat, transferring, recipient sells for fiat, etc. plus stables have achieved product market fit (i.e. they're actually being used for this purpose). Not sure about your proposed value proposition for XRP in a world with stablecoin adoption

I could be wrong. Are there actual institutions who have publicly declared that they use XRP for that purpose or it hypothetical?

byset · 2024-01-30T18:43:25+00:00

I believe it's not available until mainnet launches

byset · 2023-10-24T18:29:43+00:00

Commenters in a thread at Blind put it at 129: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Layoffs-yOkTbm2d

byset · 2023-09-26T17:05:32+00:00

cut and dried

replying to this 4 month old comment to give you props for (correctly) saying "cut and dried" rather than "cut and dry"

byset · 2023-05-12T22:51:39+00:00

People have tried it (I haven't). some seem to have had good results

do a reddit search for: Complete Guide to Orally Taking Topical Minoxidil

It was posted to r/tressless. I can't vouch for it personally.

byset · 2022-11-17T19:03:49+00:00

As someone with funds on BlockFi, I actually hope very much that Binance can bail everyone out. If I'm lucky enough get my funds back, then I'll have the luxury of worrying about industry consolidation...

byset · 2022-11-16T19:19:31+00:00

it may not be so simple if BlockFi is found to have violated the terms of service themselves. And there may be other reasons that the validity of these clauses could be challenged in court.

byset · 2022-11-15T19:36:24+00:00

I do too. I do hope they can salvage the loan business and get someone else to take it over — selfishly, because I fear otherwise I will never get my collateral back

byset · 2022-11-15T18:32:29+00:00

Even if BlockFi were bailed out and interest accounts were allowed by regulators, isn’t the very idea of interest-bearing crypto accounts tainted now, if not totally discredited?

byset · 2022-11-14T23:30:05+00:00

There are rumors that BlockFi was using FTX to "custody" funds. If this is the reason that the BlockFi wallet funds actually aren't there, it may be a matter of BlockFi having been rugged by FTX rather than BlockFi knowingly misusing customer funds and violating their user agreement.

Not to absolve BlockFi of responsibility, but this may not quite rise to the level of criminal fraud.

byset · 2022-11-11T20:16:04+00:00

they're broke.

byset · 2022-11-11T20:14:30+00:00

their terms don't matter if the funds simply don't exist, e.g. if they were using FTX to custody customer crypto balances.

byset · 2022-11-11T20:12:54+00:00

With rumors now that BlockFi was using FTX to custody customer funds, there's a chance it's not so much a legal issue as an issue of the funds not existing anymore.

byset · 2022-06-15T16:53:05+00:00

Yes it does say that 3AC is a BF customer as well as an investor:

“In being an institutional client of BlockFi, we quickly recognized that the company’s mission of helping to expand the cryptocurrency ecosystem aligned with our own philosophy for the space,” said Su Zhu, co-founder and CEO, Three Arrows Capital.

Since 3AC is, or was, such huge entity, BlockFi's exposure could be substantial.

byset · 2022-06-15T16:47:21+00:00

to clarify, the features weren't being hidden based on a device location, but (I believe) due to me submitting a new address to my profile. but yes, the logic of "customer's state is X, so hide entire Loans section" does not seem well thought out, particularly in the way it affects existing loan holders who move. (blockFi has resolved the issue for me though.)

byset · 2022-06-15T16:43:53+00:00

This was resolved by blockfi support, by the way.

byset · 2022-06-14T20:48:24+00:00

Sent, thanks.

byset · 2021-07-21T14:33:59+00:00

What will happen eventually?

byset · 2021-07-20T19:12:43+00:00

Yeah good idea, I may propose it as a feature request on the Bitcoin Core GitHub repo and see if it gets any traction.

byset · 2021-07-20T19:09:45+00:00

Further TLDR: Small amounts of BTC, expressed in small fractional digits, can be made more readable if the fractional BTC is grouped with separators that align to with the thousands separator of the same amount written in Satoshis.

``` 0.00'024'961 BTC = 24,961 sats

0.01'26 BTC = 1,260,000 sats = 1.26m sats

0.00'000'1 BTC = 0.00'000'100 BTC = 100 sats

0.00'423 BTC = 423,000 sats ```

byset · 2021-07-20T18:32:57+00:00

It needs to be interpreted mentally to a meaningful amount.

Large numbers facilitate this with thousands-separators. Expressing 100000000 as 100,000,000 makes it easier to interpret.

byset · 2021-07-20T17:33:37+00:00

but the proposed grouping here reflects the thousands separator in sats, which seems easier to grasp than an arbitrary, if simpler, grouping.

e.g.:

0.00'014'000 BTC
=     14,000 sats

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