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Re:Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering by hendzen on Sunday June 25, 2017 @08:43PM (#14633134)
We have "speculative vendor financing" - normally in the form of OTC stocks, i.e. pink sheets. This seems like an even less regulated way of trading pink sheets, except funded by a bunch of software people with a lot of disposable income instead of some mob guys in a boiler room in New Jersey.
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Re:Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering by H4CK3RM4N on Sunday June 25, 2017 @09:01PM (#14633200)
The whole point of the blockchain is that you can't forge currency without controlling 50%+ of the computing power in the network.
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Re:Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering by hendzen on Sunday June 25, 2017 @09:06PM (#14633221)
Sure... and 3 guys in China control 50%+ of the Bitcoin network, and ETH mining will eventually centralize as well. What's your point? I'd rather have Janet Yellen controlling my currency than Jihan Wu/Barry Silbert/Brian Armstrong.
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Re:Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering by Jabanga on Sunday June 25, 2017 @10:07PM (#14633526)
Three guys run pools, which have relatively limited power. The control is in the hands of those who own the hardware that points to those pools. And the beautiful thing is that there's no barrier to entry to participating in hashing, or in the case of Ethereum's soon-to-be-implemented staking.

It's massively parallel, with smaller hash-producers/stakers having nearly the same profitability as large ones, and nearly no minimum investment required to enter.

This is diametrically opposed to any central banking scheme, which is extremely hierarchical, with the representatives of regional banks sitting alongside high-ranking political appointees to create monetary policy and make decisions as significant as buying a trillion dollars worth of privately owned assets from large privately owned financial institutions.

The current centralized monetary scheme is the reason 42% of corporate profits since 1972 have been earned by the financial sector.

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Re:Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering by crazy1van on Sunday June 25, 2017 @10:04PM (#14633510)
Could you elaborate on why you'd prefer Yellen?
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Re:Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering by MachinShinn- on Sunday June 25, 2017 @10:49PM (#14633689)
A life time of scholarship dedicated to economics on monetary policy?
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