"This isn't a Ponzi scheme… If no one had ever cast aspersions on the business, if there hadn't been a run on customer deposits, they'd still be sitting there making tons of money," the "Big Short" author said. "This was literally Enron's defense. 'If it wasn't for those meddling short-sellers and journalists causing a run-on-the-bank, we would've been fine'," Chanos posted on X late Sunday, referring to the energy firm that collapsed in late 2001 after an accounting scandal.

"This isn't a Ponzi scheme… If no one had ever cast aspersions on the business, if there hadn't been a run on customer deposits, they'd still be sitting there making tons of money," the "Big Short" author said. "This was literally Enron's defense. 'If it wasn't for those meddling short-sellers and journalists causing a run-on-the-bank, we would've been fine'," Chanos posted on X late Sunday, referring to the energy firm that collapsed in late 2001 after an accounting scandal.

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A typical seed phrase is a combination of 12 to 24 random words chosen from a list of 2,048 words, which generates 2^128 combinations for 12 words only. This makes it practically impossible for someone to guess the phrase by randomly trying different combinations. The chances of someone guessing a 12-word seed phrase are roughly one in 2,048^12. This number is so large that it is difficult to comprehend. 24-word seed phrases have a chance of 1 in 2,048^24 to be correct. This will practically never be possible to guess. However, if your seed phrase is compromised, someone might gain access to your bitcoin wallet or other cryptocurrency wallet.

A typical seed phrase is a combination of 12 to 24 random words chosen from a list of 2,048 words, which generates 2^128 combinations for 12 words only.  This makes it practically impossible for someone to guess the phrase by randomly trying different combinations. The chances of someone guessing a 12-word seed phrase are roughly one in 2,048^12. This number is so large that it is difficult to comprehend.  24-word seed phrases have a chance of 1 in 2,048^24 to be correct. This will practically never be possible to guess. However, if your seed phrase is compromised, someone might gain access to your bitcoin wallet or other cryptocurrency wallet.

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It is also worth noting that zapvertising is going to be limited in its attractiveness to businesses engaged in e-commerce, since we do not track location data. Location data is one of the key elements that allows traditional marketing, such as Facebook Ads, to be successful for small businesses engaged in traditional brick-and-mortar style commerce. Ad dollars need to be maximally effective for these small businesses and we have none of the tools to do so for retail.

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Your computer is not blasting through the cavernous depths of the internet in search of digital ore that can be fashioned into bitcoin bullion. There is no ore, and bitcoin mining doesn’t involve extracting or smelting anything. It’s called mining only because the people who do it are the ones who get new bitcoins, and because bitcoin is a finite resource liberated in small amounts over time, like gold, or anything else that is mined. (The size of each batch of coins drops by half roughly every four years, and around 2140, it will be cut to zero, capping the total number of bitcoins in circulation at 21 million.) But the analogy ends there.

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There is an equation in manufacturing where the farther you move along the "why" axis, the more the weight of the variable X compounds, bearing down on you so heavily that you feel immobilized. At this point, you're spent - done, fried, finished.

Nostr enables something that no social network has ever supported: the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Want to see exactly what someone else's feed looks like? Just set up a read-only account with their public key. If this functionality is sufficiently interesting, nostr clients could add a "view feed as..." feature that could be as simple as a button on a user's profile screen.

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