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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
I think they operate quite efficiently.
Eth smart contracts is broken, and it can't realistically be fixed even by Eth 2.0. So whatever ethereum becomes it won't be a regular smart contract player as it just doesn't have capacity in any reasonable formulation. So I'm essentially looking out for an alternative.
I'm reasonably happy the main alternative is between cardano and polkadot and that cardano is ahead. The market also agrees.
Also, whatever amount you were planning on buying of Cardano, let's have a wager for that amount, on it overtaking ETH in market cap. I'm sure a man with your illustrious gambling career can propose something suitable in terms of odds and dates.
Edit - also the mark cuban episode of uponly is worth a watch, he's a big proponent of NFT's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ54n8_WS7c
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Plus, if it becomes clear that someone else is pulling ahead from my usage of NFT markets, then I can just pull the money out. I'm not just buying and forgetting. I have the side advantage of being involved in these markets so should be able to feel the underlying trends. Maybe. Thats the idea anyway. But probably you feel the same way about defi.
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View Post
That's quite a statement. This is a year in which markets bought Hertz when it was bankrupt and propelled Gamestop to the moon! Whatever about normal markets, crypto markets do not operate efficiently.
Cardano has no working product and is competing with Ethereum, which enjoys gigantic network effects and is actually working. The chance of any smart contract overtaking ETH is slim, but there are many pretenders to the crown. Binance smart chain, Solana, Polkadot, Cardano. Of those Cardano has the least chance. I don't think there's a zero chance it wins the smart contract wars, but it's a massive underdog currently.
Not having a working product is in some ways a boon, because you can promise anything. The head developer Charles Hoskinson is quite a figure of fun in the crypto space.
Eth smart contracts is broken, and it can't realistically be fixed even by Eth 2.0. So whatever ethereum becomes it won't be a regular smart contract player as it just doesn't have capacity in any reasonable formulation. So I'm essentially looking out for an alternative.
I'm reasonably happy the main alternative is between cardano and polkadot and that cardano is ahead. The market also agrees.
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Originally posted by Emmet View Post
Is every single cent of yours locked up in this? Why not?
Serious question.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Whats wrong with cardano? In general markets are pretty decent at filtering out good ideas from bad, so its not just randomly the 6th largest ranked crypto.
Cardano has no working product and is competing with Ethereum, which enjoys gigantic network effects and is actually working. The chance of any smart contract overtaking ETH is slim, but there are many pretenders to the crown. Binance smart chain, Solana, Polkadot, Cardano. Of those Cardano has the least chance. I don't think there's a zero chance it wins the smart contract wars, but it's a massive underdog currently.
Not having a working product is in some ways a boon, because you can promise anything. The head developer Charles Hoskinson is quite a figure of fun in the crypto space.
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Originally posted by dobby View Post
I dunno. This lad has been 100% accurate with everything he has reported on so far
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
No he didn't.
He clearly deletes all old tweets, as he only has 12,700 tweets on his account at the moment. So whatever was deleted was caught up in a past cleaning out. Precisely as people will go back and point at old tweets. Everyone should delete their old tweets.
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View Post
For Strewel and those that liked this post - this is an open-source protocol where (if you learnt a little bit of solidity) you can read the code. The protocol works, and there's nothing particularly unusual about it, it's really a combination of elements of the DEFI ecosystem. All of it on-chain and auditable - there's currently over a billion dollars locked in it.
https://defillama.com/protocol/alchemix
Serious question.
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Originally posted by dobby View PostSimon Coveney deleted a 10 year old tweet after it appeared on Reeling in the years yesterday. I don't see the point of it myself but find it strangely amusing for some reason.
He clearly deletes all old tweets, as he only has 12,700 tweets on his account at the moment. So whatever was deleted was caught up in a past cleaning out. Precisely as people will go back and point at old tweets. Everyone should delete their old tweets.
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The wild garlic chimichuri. Lovely bit of heat to it without being too spicy.
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The wild garlic pesto. I'm not going to lie, it's very garlicy!!
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Simon Coveney deleted a 10 year old tweet after it appeared on Reeling in the years yesterday. I don't see the point of it myself but find it strangely amusing for some reason.
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View Post
I don't understand how you can want to invest in something like Cardano whilst only doing the briefest amount of surface-level research.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostAnyone want to buy some magic beans?
https://defillama.com/protocol/alchemix
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostFrozen kebab meat from Lidl for lunch. They've really captured a specific market.
They really have gone down the processed food route!
Good selection of veg, nuts and par cooked breads,
(...apart from the steaks looking ok) fuck all meat and wall to wall processed shite
Don't seem to bother with low sugar drinks and a shite cider selection and all
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A good haul of wild garlic. Wild Garlic pesto and chimichuri incoming.
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UK seem to have made a better risk v reward calculation. We should be setting it somewhere between 35 - 45
This will cost more lives than it saves. Vaccine rollout is going to be setback by c. two months pushing out things like gigs and indoor eating to the autumn based on the rationale we are using now but the political pressure will be too much.
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It was already restricted in a few other countries for under 60's too I thought, must be similar reasoning.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostAstraZeneca banned for under 60s. ffs. Had to be done, those risks were too much, but still. I would have thought maybe 40, or 50 would be a better age point to allow a balance of risks vs rewards.
Not long ago they banned AZ for over 60s
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View Post
There's a new defi protocol that caused quite a stir when some traditional finance people heard about it. You deposit 100k of stablecoin into it. You can then borrow 50k against this to do whatever you want with. In the background the protocol generates yield with your collateral, and the yield pays back the loan. You don't have to pay a penny In a few years the loan is paid off, and you can take out the 100k. This is many things, but boring isn't one of them.
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Is it true that Hitch queried why the DCU Business department tweets don’t mention him?
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/heal...-him-1.4534536
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Actually now that I think of it there was a lad I knew back then who IIRC would have been on that course. maybe dropped out after first year, who went on to set up a very famous investment business along those lines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breifne_O%27Brien
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When John Teeling was teaching commerce in UCD in the '80's he used to tell his students that if they were ever stuck for cash all they had to do was put an advert in the Sunday Press offering 1% more on deposits than the pillar banks, with no more than a few deft words and a PO box you would have the price of a new car before the week was out. Many tried, none failed to collect and a few even paid the money back with the premium.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Well I mainly look at behaviour rather than pure finance, and there's interesting behaviour associated with NFTs, while defi is fundamental extremely boring.
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Originally posted by Mellor View PostTesco used to sell frozen donner kebabs. Literally just a pitta filled with spiced reformed meat and nothing else. Plus a few sachets of hot sauce in the bottom of the box for those of us in Ireland not allergic to chilli.
Turned into a hot mess in the microwave. But I’ve made worse food.
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Originally posted by RichieM View Post
What was this about?
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostFrozen kebab meat from Lidl for lunch. They've really captured a specific market.
Now I'm not saying I haven't eaten worse after a feed of pints but to buy/eat this sober just sounds wrong.
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View Post
I'm surprised you aren't more interested in defi than NFTs. NFTs are an interesting technology, but unless you are already into art, collectibles or innovative ticketing I don't see the fascination.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostAstraZeneca banned for under 60s. ffs. Had to be done, those risks were too much, but still. I would have thought maybe 40, or 50 would be a better age point to allow a balance of risks vs rewards.
I'd almost risk it just to be able to go on the holliers.
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AstraZeneca banned for under 60s. ffs. Had to be done, those risks were too much, but still. I would have thought maybe 40, or 50 would be a better age point to allow a balance of risks vs rewards.
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View Post
It's probably a bit of a ponzi but at the moment, a pretty simple way to make ETH.
.02 ETH a week in rewards from earning > 250 points in sorare.
Which is a pretty easy bar to clear, rewards rise up to 2ETH for top X teams and pretty easy to make money by putting a modicum of effort in learning starting lineups and monitoring injuries etc.
e.g
https://sorare.com/players/motohiko-nakajima?tab=cards
I got this guy a few weeks ago for .028ETH in the knowledge that the team had a raft of injuries
He's now starting and scored at the weekend and his cheapest price is now 0.150 ETH which is a nice return on investment.
It's on the verge of exploding in the US and MLS is just around the corner, there's money to be made as
there;s a lot of idiots out there.
https://sorare.com/r/deadparrot
regarding Defi, I've 20 AAVE locked in a ledger (converted from a load of LEND bought for a pittance) wallet and not looking at it for 6-12 months as the swings where driving me potty
Regarding AAVE - excellent buy. I have some as well. For those that don't know AAVE is the second biggest DEFI lender
You can stake your AAVE in the protocol to earn 6.7% APY https://app.aave.com/staking - to cut down on fee's make sure you use the polygon network. There are risks, but its worth looking into
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostFrozen kebab meat from Lidl for lunch. They've really captured a specific market.
Turned into a hot mess in the microwave. But I’ve made worse food.
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View Post
If you are going to give interviews on them I'd say it's a necessary step. I wouldn't expect to make money though.
I definitely wouldn't buy cardano.
I'm surprised you aren't more interested in defi than NFTs. NFTs are an interesting technology, but unless you are already into art, collectibles or innovative ticketing I don't see the fascination.
.02 ETH a week in rewards from earning > 250 points in sorare.
Which is a pretty easy bar to clear, rewards rise up to 2ETH for top X teams and pretty easy to make money by putting a modicum of effort in learning starting lineups and monitoring injuries etc.
e.g
https://sorare.com/players/motohiko-nakajima?tab=cards
I got this guy a few weeks ago for .028ETH in the knowledge that the team had a raft of injuries
He's now starting and scored at the weekend and his cheapest price is now 0.150 ETH which is a nice return on investment.
It's on the verge of exploding in the US and MLS is just around the corner, there's money to be made as
there;s a lot of idiots out there.
https://sorare.com/r/deadparrot
regarding Defi, I've 20 AAVE locked in a ledger (converted from a load of LEND bought for a pittance) wallet and not looking at it for 6-12 months as the swings where driving me pottyLast edited by DeadParrot; Yesterday, 13:03.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostSold €4,000 worth of AIB shares in order to invest it in NFTs. A step too far, maybe?
sorare.com/r/deadparrot
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I must be the only one who thinks the Aeropress is an awful faff.
Gave mine away.
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Originally posted by oleras View PostWOW
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostFrozen kebab meat from Lidl for lunch. They've really captured a specific market.
Has no-one ever told you that to live well is the best revenge?
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Frozen kebab meat from Lidl for lunch. They've really captured a specific market.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostSold €4,000 worth of AIB shares in order to invest it in NFTs. A step too far, maybe?
I definitely wouldn't buy cardano.
I'm surprised you aren't more interested in defi than NFTs. NFTs are an interesting technology, but unless you are already into art, collectibles or innovative ticketing I don't see the fascination.
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Originally posted by Elshambles View Post
I got one a few years ago after you mentioned it a few times...
Those videos might be interesting, I haven't played with it much, the "that's a grand cup of coffee" 'setting' has done for me
I do have one annoying colleague who uses a weighing scales and makes it upside down, claiming it to be coffee perfection. He also collects water from mountain streams to make his coffee with so I think we can safely say he's a complete wanker.
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Thanks RD3 , Wombatman and Music King Bennyhifi for the past couple of weeks entertainment. I'm always the bridesmaids sister come the final but sure it's the distraction I'm paying for .
A special mention to Jose Mourinho for reminding us all to feed our children
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
You'll be a millionaire by Christmas, Rodney.
Can only be upside here for your media profile though so might actually be a good play?
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Ha, I have one of them in work - hasn't been used since mid-March last year obv. Wonder if anyone has robbed it.
Those videos might be interesting, I haven't played with it much, the "that's a grand cup of coffee" 'setting' has done for me
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostSold €4,000 worth of AIB shares in order to invest it in NFTs. A step too far, maybe?
Can only be upside here for your media profile though so might actually be a good play?
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Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
CryptoKitties?
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Aeropress was the only coffee maker I use at home until this weekend when I was given a present of a Chemex. It looks great but its just a fancy drip filter, I can really only see myself using it when I have to make a few cups when there are other people around.
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Sold €4,000 worth of AIB shares in order to invest it in NFTs. A step too far, maybe?
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Originally posted by Elshambles View PostBeginning of a series of coffee porn for the Duke...
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IPB Masters Sweep 2021 Final Standings posted.
Fair play to Eoghan104, Coillcam and Hideki. Deserved winners.
Had Xander birdied the 16th they would have been level with two to play. I never felt it was over until Hideki holed his last putt. His shot selection on 15 will be the subject of some debate.
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View Post
Lovely offer. I am planning to but don't realistically know when! GFX cards are insane atm. Even my 1070 from 5 years ago are being sold secondhand for up to €500. What specs did you build?
I am still running my i5 2500k setup from 2011, which is amazing tbh considering I've been gaming all that time.
The case just arrived in the door, and it's at least 3x the volume of my current ATX case. And the bequiet cooler I got is probably about 10x my old one.
Probably all overkill and I could have just got a cheap 2500k!
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