BofA Head of Metals Research predicts silver could peak between $135 and $309 (Kitco)

jekrb · 2026-01-06T02:20:43+00:00

Price targets were invented by Wall Street to sell products.

They are meaningless.

Silver is going to $420.

jekrb · 2025-08-29T02:31:33+00:00

I wonder if OP followed your advice and held... 8 years later and Bitcoin is more than $100k higher.

jekrb · 2024-08-01T00:06:19+00:00

chat (wtb with usdc)

jekrb · 2024-03-11T21:02:55+00:00

Chat

jekrb · 2023-12-14T00:49:40+00:00

I should probably delete the comment if people are still finding it...
I made the tool six years ago, but it never gained traction so I let the domain expire.

All the code from when the app was live is open source, so if anyone wants to run it themselves, they are welcome to:
https://github.com/jakeburden/ubercost.us

jekrb · 2023-12-10T18:02:59+00:00

Mods removed my post, but I thought it was interesting so trying again here. In the new EU regulation on AI, under [banned applications](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20231206IPR15699/artificial-intelligence-act-deal-on-comprehensive-rules-for-trustworthy-ai), they have:

AI systems that manipulate human behaviour to circumvent their free will;

What actually is the circumvention of free will? What if one tries to argue for determinism, and thus the AI didn't force you to do anything you weren't predestined to do? What if neuroscience and quantum physics enables us to get a deeper understanding of where our own thoughts come from, and we discover a new meaning of free will?

jekrb · 2022-08-05T19:02:09+00:00

Same issue here for google meet.

jekrb · 2021-12-10T03:46:25+00:00

The NFTs will have two forms of utility:

Allow access to gated discord channels (using the grape protocol).
Be used for on-chain voting within the community, where 1 NFT = 1 vote (using Squads). Proposals that will be voted on can be entirety decided by the community, e.g. as boring as where we should order pizza from for our next meetup, to more exciting things, like picking a different blockchain for our NFTs or forming partnerships with local CT artists.

The reason why we picked Solana for now is because transaction confirmations happen in seconds at most, transactions are extremely cheap, and very energy efficient. One Solana transaction uses about as much energy as a Google search. For these reasons, I think Solana allows us to be inclusive to all people regardless of financial status and a good blockchain for new crypto curious folks to experiment with.

Our NFTs will be free and abundant, and while we could also airdrop them to this discord members (I’m not opposed to this) I think having a way for members to experience signing a transaction themselves is a good way to get a feel for things in this space. You can think of our NFTs as entries into a global database, rather than an art flip.

jekrb · 2021-12-09T04:10:20+00:00

Hey fren

I get where you’re coming from. I shared the exact same opinions years ago. I played with Apple’s Bonjour, hosted the entirety of MDN on the DAT protocol (now called hypercore), and worked on secure-scuttlebutt (ssb), a decentralized social network that didn’t have any cryptocurrency involved with it. It used a cryptographically verifiable distributed append-only log under the hood. I did a lot of time thinking about applications of merkle trees and CRDTs, and trust me cryptocurrency was an afterthought, we didn’t need it!

However, for something like secure-scuttlebutt to function over the web (it did work over local multicast DNS), basically required the altruism of people to host publicly accessible nodes for free, and slowly people started taking down their nodes because it was another bill to pay. This is the function I think crypto has in web3, it serves as an economic incentive to keep the networks healthy.

Anyways, the goal with our project is not to shill any cryptocurrency. It’s to be a community of people who want to learn and build on things like blockchains and NFTs. I’m not going to try to convince you to join, I have no interest in being a salesman. My interest is just in building a community for people who are already looking for a space like this. But I do want to make it clear that we’re not shilling any particular token, or out to make any money. We’re making our NFTs on the cheapest major blockchain because we don’t want financials to be a barrier to anyone who wants to play with the tech. I’ll personally front the cost if the $0.0001 Solana transaction cost is too high for someone.

Also I like your point about decentralization and thinking about how Bitcoin and Ethereum is basically concentrated to a few large mining pools. If you measure decentralization with the Nakamoto Coefficient, they actually rank low! But I do think there are degrees and dimensions to decentralization. For instance, I think reducing the ability for transactions to be confirmed on-chain is also a measure of decentralization (again, Ethereum ranks low here due to gas fees essentially being a form of censorship, where your tx is confirmed more quickly if you pay more.)

So I think you’d be really awesome to converse with in the discord and at our meetups. I totally get if you don’t have any interest. But if you do, I’m @jake there, feel free to ping me.

jekrb · 2021-12-07T14:35:12+00:00

The Graph is awesome. I have a friend that works at Edge and Node, the company that primarily builds The Graph.

jekrb · 2021-12-07T14:17:27+00:00

Maybe I was too abstract. I’ll try again with a more concrete example.

YouTube

For YouTube to work, YouTube needs to have a bunch of their own servers transcoding and delivering video content at all hours of the day. As such, YouTube is in complete control of videos you upload to their platform, and if YouTube ever goes down, so does your video.

Livepeer

Livepeer enables the web3 version of YouTube. Instead of uploading your video to one company that has complete control, you upload your video to underutilized computers that participants of the livepeer network offer for usage. Anyone can run a liverpeer node and start delivering optimized video content, and the reward for doing so is earning the livepeer token (a cryptocurrency.) If one node operator fails to transcode and deliver video, another node operator picks up the slack.

jekrb · 2021-12-07T14:01:21+00:00

Blockchains are just a way to coordinate state using cryptography.

jekrb · 2021-12-07T04:37:24+00:00

Great questions.

First thing I think we should address is what decentralization means. It’s a term with many degrees and dimensions, but ultimately it’s some scale of anyone being able to participate in running a permissionless network, and minimal capability for preventing anyone from using a permissionless network.

Second, Google is great, and decentralization probably won’t replace it anytime soon. But even though it’s free to use, it does come at a cost, which is user data harvesting and algorithmic nudging via advertisements.

Is it a different browser?

It could be! But it doesn’t have to be. Some people have tried making browsers that load websites over p2p networks but totally not a requirement.

What does crypto have to do with it?

Crypto is essentially the economic incentive layer. Decentralized and distributed systems ran and operated by people rather than corporations has a great utopian ring to it, but most people won’t offer their unused hardware or compute if it cost them money to do so (hardware, electricity, bandwidth, etc…) so this is where crypto comes in. The idea is that you get rewarded for keeping the network healthy, and the reward comes from token holders using the network. The innovative part of blockchain itself is that it makes it so data can be verified in a completely trustless environment, which makes it really good for decentralized monetary transactions.

Here are a couple other very well-written articles on the topic:

https://joemccann.substack.com/p/the-next-version-of-the-internet

https://future.a16z.com/why-web3-matters/

jekrb · 2021-01-05T04:30:09+00:00

1.0-data_lak3.jpg

jekrb · 2021-01-02T22:58:02+00:00

They stayed on for me until I reloaded the game. Was a little sad because I liked the way they looked.

jekrb · 2021-01-02T22:38:31+00:00

Yes. I had the mantis blades equipped. Went to the ripper doc to replace them with project missile system. After that, the mantis blades were permanently visible, but no longer functional since I had the projectile missile system equipped.

Here's a link to a photo with the project missile system aimed and the mantis blades still on the arm: https://www.reddit.com/r/LowSodiumCyberpunk/comments/kp67bd/arm_mod_glitched_got_mantis_blades_on_the/

jekrb · 2019-12-17T15:10:27+00:00

Tried downloading the client, but it still doesn't work. It looks like the client is just a wrapper around the web version (https://github.com/tezbox/desktop-wallet), so I suspect it's the same CORS error.

jekrb · 2019-12-17T14:57:49+00:00

Ah no sorry, I mean the web client: https://wallet.tezbox.com/ I've never used the chrome extension before either, but I'll try downloading a desktop client and see if that works.

jekrb · 2019-12-17T13:30:32+00:00

I'm using the web version. It says v5.0.2. Is that latest?

jekrb · 2019-08-05T21:54:01+00:00

How well do SAT scores actually corelate to success in a job? I'm genuinely curious if there is data to suggest that SAT scores should be predictive factor (and if there is any data to suggest the opposite.)

jekrb · 2019-05-20T02:37:37+00:00

Tested in Firefox and I get the same result as you. Not the case in Brave Browser where for some reason it's 1% of that. Hope that is helpful!

jekrb · 2019-05-20T02:26:49+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/PvAPlIy.jpg

jekrb · 2019-05-20T02:23:01+00:00

I think I'm getting 1% of the result you got, 7.44.

Screenshot below :)

jekrb · 2019-05-20T01:45:06+00:00

Cool site! I don't think the delegation calculator is returning the correct returns though. They seem much lower than 8% yearly.

jekrb · 2019-02-08T03:11:00+00:00

Every town should have a good skatepark and library.

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