Bernardo Salazar

But crypto trading is thin and almost entirely unregulated—perfect conditions for commodity market manipulation.

Had our ancestors been asked to predict what would happen in an age of widespread prosperity in which most religious and cultural proscriptions had lost their power, how many would have guessed that our favourite activities would not be fiery political meetings, masked orgies, philosophical debates, hunting wild boar or surfing monstrous waves, but... See more

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But in the end, gravity still works, and a balloon can be inflated only so much. The bitcoin bubble is an artifact of market manipulation and has no more economic substance than the Hawk Tuah coin does. The U.S. government may be ripe for plunder, but other nations need to take steps to shield themselves from the impact of rug-pulling on a global s... See more

Finally, there is that options ndots:5 . This indicates “how many dots should there be in a name for that name to be considered an external name”. In other words, if we try to resolve a , a.b , a.b.c , a.b.c.d , or a.b.c.d.e , the search list will be used - so resolving api.example.com will result in 5 DNS queries (for the 4 elements of the search ... See more

Bitcoin remains a strangely useless asset that doesn’t do anything. All you can do with it is buy, sell, or hold. The only use for cryptocurrency other than pure zero-sum speculation is bitcoin’s original use case: evading regulations, most often for illegal purchases, money laundering, or dodging sanctions.