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@idealist Jul 13, 2017, 6:51 AM UTC

I'm pretty proud of this prediction - and what we can learn from it

On March 29th I made the conclusion that the 2.5 years long downtrend of BTS had ended. Look at where the pointer is. Amazing, isn't it. I'm pretty proud :-) As a proof here's my article about it. It…

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idealist
@idealist Jul 6, 2017, 10:40 AM UTC

The important aspect of LBRY that everyone seems to miss

It's not that LBRY is decentralised and distributed. Not that there's incentivised participation. Also not that content creators get almost all of the revenue, or that it's all-in-one. Not even that…

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idealist
@idealist Jul 5, 2017, 12:54 PM UTC

Make sure to read this short but informative lesson by Dan Larimer on value

## Teaser > Understanding why people will buy STEEM is a mind bending exercise in economic and social theory. All value is perceived value, and people will buy anything they perceive will have mor…

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idealist
@idealist Jun 15, 2017, 8:47 AM UTC

What if each #tag had it's own reward pool?

It could reduce bandwagoning and equalize rewards over the whole spectrum of topics and communities. The reward pool for each tag should be in direct proportion to the total weights of votes per tag.…

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idealist
@idealist Jun 7, 2017, 7:55 AM UTC

Apparently, by participating in the GetGame ICO, you can buy dollars for $0.16

If you join the ICO with $100, you can buy 100$ later on with just $16. If I understand correctly, you get tokens called OBITS.WARRANT according to the amount with which you participate in the GetGam…

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idealist
@idealist Mar 29, 2017, 10:24 AM UTC

The tide seems to have changed

One of the hardest challenges a cryptocurrency community can face is prolonged price decline and constant selling pressure. Such a period is a self-enforcing and lethal cycle. Gamblers exit -> pri…

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idealist
@idealist Oct 12, 2016, 12:40 PM UTC

Interesting detail: Each Safecoin has a unique ID.

There will be no more than 2^32 Safecoins, which is about 4.3 billion. Each of them will have a unique ID, but still they will be divisible. >Safecoin, the currency of the SAFE network, is generat…

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idealist
@idealist Sep 8, 2016, 7:29 AM UTC

Christians, Atheists, Muslims and everyone else (except agnostics): Are you being intellectually honest?

If you are, you should be ready to abandon your current belief-system in light of contradicting evidence. Are you ready? Could you leave your fellowship if you found out it is doing you and other peo…

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idealist
@idealist Aug 4, 2016, 8:06 AM UTC

Curation isn't worth your time. Only do it alongside enjoying quality content.

# My curation efforts are worth 1.00$ / hour. With 3500 SP, a few hours of work and my luck, I get a few dollars worth of curation rewards per day, and that's not worth the effort. I had a look at th…

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idealist
@idealist Jul 6, 2016, 9:46 AM UTC

How stuck can one be in the status-quo?

Sam1, a friend of mine, heard about bitcoin in 2011 from his friend Sam2. Both of them are Sam's, so I enumerate them. Of course, Sam1 dismissed it as a scam. Sam2 went on to make hundreds of thousan…

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