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    Question about the point slope formula

    Homework Statement What is another form of point slope formula Homework Equations Y = mx+b The Attempt at a Solution Y - y2 = m(x - x2) I’m not sure I’m trying to find B but I don’t know how
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    News BITCOIN, Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses

    My point was you can short any currency
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    News BITCOIN, Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses

    Lol you must not like any form of currency
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    News BITCOIN, Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses

    The number of bitcoins that are rewarded every mine is halved every 200000 blocks. Today days you only get about 12 btc when you are successfully at mining. I mean you could buy pizza with bitcoin if your short bitcoin, as in you think bitcoin is overvalued.
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    Today I Learned

    The last of our white buffalo
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    News BITCOIN, Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses

    In the white paper of bitcoin it says the currency has a set number of coins. It’s a cap, it’s going to take about another ten years to mine the rest of them. But it’s a fixed set of coins. No more will be printed and in that since it’s like gold. Although unlike gold we won’t be finding anymore...
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    News BITCOIN, Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses

    I agree, I agree, although you have to remember it’s still a work in progress. And even though it’s pretty crappy in my opinion there are a bunch of international business that run using bitcoin. A lot of it is from transferring money overseas as it’s cheaper and quicker.
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    News BITCOIN, Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses

    It’s a new currency, volatility happens everywhere. If you are privileged to live in a first world you may not be familiar with currency crashes That’s actually a good thing lol, it’s a relatively new currency. If you want to see how bitcoin is performing you check its transaction usage and...
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    Today I Learned

    TIL because I’m a white male with German heritage I’m responsible for slavery in America, the holocast in Germany, and suppressing women in the tech fields, never felt more awkward in a class discussion lol
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    News BITCOIN, Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses

    Also in the issue of scalability there is a project which is called mimblewimble its a way to increase privacy per transaction. But it’s based off different cryptography which actually eliminates the need to confirm all transactions to the start of the chain. Which would increase the speed...
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    News BITCOIN, Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses

    Yeah some other crypto starts with a v addresses the Moore’s law problem by allowing mining through only commercial cpus which is a better bet. but you have to remember the scalability issue really is an argument in which is more appropriate amount of centralization. There is a fear that if we...
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    News BITCOIN, Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses

    There are a couple solutions, a off chain fee less transaction which is built on a different layer than the block chain. This would enable light transactions, leaving the large transaction to be on the chain for more security. There is also bitcoin cash that is betting technology will keep...
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    Future fields of employment that will grow rapidly

    What fields in the future do you see blowing up? Will all the automated truck drivers and grocery clerks become software engineers? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.
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    Why Are Sounds Louder at Night Compared to Daytime?

    I don’t have google as my cellphone is restricted, but I’d guess it’s not affected. I haven’t taken a light course on physics yet. Will be my next course, light seems to be affected by gravity and I know water changes it’s speed and direction. But I’d imagine sound is too light of a medium to...
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