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Miscellaneous Musings on Gambling

Web3 & Cypherpunks2013.05.24
Miscellaneous Musings on Gambling
After buying Bitcoin, I tried doing some short-term trading, but the results were not good. So recently I switched to small-scale gambling. On the one hand, it takes much less mental energy; on the other hand, the income is also more obvious. As of today, I have basically made back the losses from my failed investments in other coins (LTC, PPC, FRC, etc., which have all plunged recently), as well as the losses caused by short-term trading and other flipping about. The things I take part in are, of course, things I approve of, so let me talk a bit about my view of gambling. Of course, I do not…
China Web3 Bitcoin mathematics
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2013年5月24日
Bitcoin: The Disappearance of the State

Web3 & Bitcoin2013.05.09
Bitcoin: The Disappearance of the State
I’ve now written the third consecutive article about Bitcoin, and after this one I’ll more or less be wrapping things up for the time being. My spare cash has basically all been invested already, and I’ve now bid farewell to the infuriating Bitcoin China trading platform. I put one bitcoin into Mt.gox and started groping my way through the game of selling high and buying low; a few days later, one coin had become 0.98 coins… It’s a bit discouraging, really… Of course I’ll keep trying my hand at it, but I no longer dare to make any big moves. For now, the main thing is just to hold the…
media Web3 Bitcoin internet
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2013年5月9日
Bitcoin: An Endless Scam

Web3 & Cypherpunks2013.04.27
Bitcoin: An Endless Scam
Previously I wrote a long article on Bitcoin, but I still did not make clear the two most crucial questions: first, the question people on the internet love to argue about most—whether Bitcoin is really a scam; second, the truly important question: what exactly is the revolution brought about by Bitcoin? The previous article in fact also touched on these two questions, but because it was so long, they may have been obscured, so let me talk about them separately here. First, let us discuss this question, which in fact is not even worth refuting: is Bitcoin a scam? Many people like to compare Bitcoin with the notorious tulip bubble,…
history Web3 Bitcoin internet
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2013年4月27日
Bitcoin: The Nature of Money

Web3 & Bitcoin2013.04.19
Bitcoin: The Nature of Money
Recently Bitcoin has risen and fallen wildly, and a great deal of discussion has sprung up as well. Of course there are those who strongly support it and those who predict its doom; in any case, this peculiar electronic currency has officially entered public view. In fact, I heard about this thing a few years ago, and at the time I also thought about joining the ranks of the “miners.” Unfortunately I was still too wary of trouble to pursue it in depth. More crucially, my insights in media philosophy were not yet mature enough then, so I failed to seize the opportunity. And these past few days, gritting my…
media Web3 Bitcoin internet
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2013年4月19日
On Smartphones and Tablets: The Advanced Nature of Technology

AI & the Future of Technology2011.05.19
On Smartphones and Tablets: The Advanced Nature of Technology
During last winter break I got a new smartphone, HTC Desire（A8180/G7）. After buying it, I meant to jot something down, and somehow kept thinking I already had…… Today it occurred to me again, so I’ll just toss off a few casual remarks while I’m at it. I hadn’t actually planned to change phones. It started because my mother wanted a new one, and I helped her choose. At first I wanted to pick something like the classic Nokia 5230, but after seeing my parents buy themselves a brand-new 64-bit laptop, I changed my mind. I asked them why they had bought a 64-bit machine, and they said they had been…
technology Web3 internet innovation
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2011年5月19日
Add Annotations to Any Paragraph: Enable the Feedback by Paragraph Plugin

Site Matters2011.02.20
Add Annotations to Any Paragraph: Enable the Feedback by Paragraph Plugin
First I happened to see a post in the Chinese WordPress forum mentioning a feature of Yeeyan (this site seems pretty good): marginal annotations. You can add notes to every paragraph in an article, and registered members can very conveniently discuss specific paragraphs. For a translation community like this, such a feature is simply a brilliant design. I was instantly drawn to this feature. I was trying to build an academic blog for the Web 2.0 era, and the most basic effect this kind of academic model hopes to achieve is: “infinite margins” — the blank space at the side of the page, or rather the space for communication, will…
scholarship blog Web3 internet
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2011年2月20日