pixie_

Stopping optimization, evolution, growth?

Go outside and yell out, "Hey world, I'm good! You can stop evolving now, thanks!"

When people say a phrase like that it implies that it happens often, not that people don’t leave for other reasons.

Crypto's value is derived from its usefulness as a currency. It has many advantages over current fiat systems. You can expect if it's practical adoption expands then it's value will go up.

A bitcoin is as real as anything else. It's ones and zeros stored in a distributed ledger on computers around the world. I'm sorry you're having trouble predicting the price, look up supply and demand. Either way it doesn't make it any less real.

How is that different from any other asset? One day it can be valuable, the next it might not. It doesn't change the fact that it is immutable.

When you put money into blackjack you're not buying an asset. A crypto coin is an asset that can be held. Just like a share of a company, or a dollar itself.

Wooo this is awesome! Robinhood gets it :) I already use Robinhood for trading, so this would be a one stop shop. Plus the fact that it integrates with TurboTax means there's zero work to pay taxes on trades. Keeping track of the taxes is my biggest hassle trading crypto.

Hey Robinhood if you're reading I'd like

BTC, ETH, LTC, XMR, DOGE, XRP, XLM, XEM

Visual programming is also very popular among engineers. All kinds of test, automation, are monitoring systems are built using LabVIEW.

Being able to 'find all references' of a variable, do a safe global rename, and 'go to definition' saves an immense amount of time.

Not to mention preventing tons of run-time bugs which saves a ton of times having to figure out.

For Go and/or C# lambda support would it be worth even running the garbage collector, or just allocating a block of memory and cleaning it up when the function ends?

Side note I think that should be an option for web servers as well for languages with managed memory. Light isolated non-threaded api endpoints shouldn't be interrupted by garbage collection.

Yea sounds like you need all the CPU you can get. Good decision.

Different cryptos are not compatible with one another. And the value is each is determined by a myriad of intrinsic properties. At the moment I'd say LTC is the most attractive.

Keep in mind relatively we're still in the early days of crypto. Though it's not like fiat currencies are immune to crashes. Look at history.

History has shown us that relying 'prudence of a central banker' is a really bad idea. Eventually shit hits the fan and they go on a spree printing money. The huge advance crypto has brought us is a solution to this very problem.

'if people agreed it had value' - That is a big if, don't trivialize it. The value of a currency is dependent on a ton of the properties I listed above.