take what this user is saying with a huge grain of salt as I see he has an agenda based on his other comments in this thread. Read the e-mails and decide for yourself.
I wouldn't use Coinbase to buy BTC. The IRS already tried to obtain all customer data before, and they conceded with "only customers who spend over $20,000".
Even outside of privacy issues, Coinbase goes down during critical periods often. Price crashing and you want to buy/sell quick? The site will likely be down.
Outside of accessibility issues, Having Bitcoin on coinbase is more like an I-O-U and defeats the purpose of cryptocurrency imo, which is having the private keys to your funds which only you control.
I recommend this guide to set a multisignature wallet through CoPay and Glidera. And managing your keys with a password manager like Enpass.
you could create an account, post content, get paid, and technically pay for things by "cashing out" of "yours" to the receiving address for the thing you're trying to buy.
of course, there'll be a point where you DO want to load your account to be able to view content. That's likely in the long term when there are more users and higher quality content.
decentralization _does_ solve useful problems. The hard part is how do you get rich off of keeping data out of centralized servers, or having financial privacy, or creating platforms for USERS to get rich.
I'm a bitcoin maximalist but there is an upcoming ICO that i have to plug. I bought some to use, not to speculate on, but in hindsight I didn't realize there was an opportunity to make some profit.
It's a lending platform. P2P lending w/o the need of banks. You don't need credit for a loan because you put up collateral in the form of Bitcoin (or probably Ethereum as well).
I've seen all the pump/dump tokens, and i'm not interested in those. I'd actually use and benefit from this platform. I hold a pretty significant amount of BTC and I learned after selling some btc to never sell again. However, If there is a time when I need $USD, I can put up my BTC as collateral, have USD deposited to my bank account, pay interest on it, and once I've paid it all I get my BTC back as well.
It's so easy to be cynical this early, and I don't blame you but we're still 3-8 years from the "Facebook" era of crypto... you're upset because we don't have the ecosystem now, but that's also because people are still coming out with use cases.
lot of biased (or to be blunt, incorrect) information from a quick glance.
There is a lack of protocol depth understanding from the author. Most of the recommendations seem to serve as market "advice" if you want to call it that.
Even if I had a million dollars in funding, that would buy me mining power for oh so long. All the meanwhile, If I change the rules too much no one would even attempt to join my fork.
Even If I had another million dollars to pay developers to build services on my new fork, there'd be no users and no economic activity. The fork would die.
There SHOULD be a lot of hard forks. Why? Because they're voluntary and most will fail without doing harm (they require consensus to matter). The good ones will survive on merit and act as protocol upgrades.
but there was only ever the "big blocks" camp to begin with. Starting with Satoshi and Gavin Andresen. The "small block" movement is the newer "vision" and didn't/wouldn't exist if not for the financial interest suddenly employing the core developers.
The market has wanted bigger blocks for YEARS, and each attempt was slandered/DDoS'ed/attacked. Bitcoin Cash is the result of the market finally getting what it wants.
the rift controllers are nicer, at least until Vive releases their new ones.
Tracking is less of a hassle on the vive. Fewer cables, easier.
rift has their own ecosystem which can also play almost every game on the steam library.
vive primarily has steam, but with some hackery (revive), you can play some rift games.
Hardware-wise, they're practically the same.
Comfort-wise, Rift takes it.
Development-wise? tough, but I think Rift takes it as well.
You get a free license for unity or unreal4 i forget which. And they've improved the developer documentation greatly recently.
The good thing is most multiplayer games support both.
I like USING GraphQL (for existing services), like Github's API.
However, 99% of the tutorials on graphql , this one included, fail to show a real life use case. What I mean by that is a working Example of a SQL database from start to finish.
So this tutorial was very cool, but not very useful. Just like the rest of them.
I've yet to find a recent tutorial that covers full stack node.js + PostgreSQL/MySQL + whatever front end. It's always MongoDB or only covers the concepts of GraphQL.
you end up on a diff chain if the bitcoin software you run has different consensus rules. Nobody would do this because there is no incentive to be on a brand new network by yourself even if you managed to have enough hash power to survive the difficulty algorithm.
even if you do mine a lot of bitcoinXfork, good luck trading/selling it.
physical mail through the post office still exists alongside e-mail.
Just like credit cards will exist alongside cryptocurrency. There already exists merchant processors like BitPay that allow for 0-conf transactions. I'm not saying that's ideal or the permanent solution, but because bitcoin/crypto is software, it will continue to be improved upon over time.
i liked vuejs. I was able to go from start->completing a project much quicker than with React. That's because with react you have to also learn the entire ecosystem so that includes learning react-router, redux (or one of the 100 alternatives), webpack, etc. etc.
However, The biggest annoyance for me was getting the syntax/code formatting on sublime 3. That's what kept me from enjoying working in react. I decided to stop being lazy and configured it all to play nicely and things like react-create-app make it much more pleasant than spending all your time stuck on tooling instead of creating.
Also there is a job market for react and a good future ahead. There's no worry about react funding since facebook actively works on it. Vue is mostly donation/contributions and heavily relies on one individual. I think React has more of a learning curve but is the better bet long term.
But as someone who has been on node since v0.6, I have witness/experienced the improvements of the ecosystem over the years, as well as the number of articles/tutorials and projects.
The community is growing faster than any other language out there so I wouldn't be surprised at all to see node surpass java (in whatever metric you want).
https://datnoid.com is the only interesting one imo, and has unique data.