Google Finance Adds Crypto Data Tab For Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash (coindesk.com) 44
Google Finance now has a dedicated "crypto" field for bitcoin, ether, litecoin and bitcoin cash. CoinDesk reports: Right at the top of the page, where users can "compare markets," crypto is listed among the five default markets, which also includes U.S., Europe, Asia and "Currencies." At the moment, it appears Google Finance only tracks a limited number of cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and bitcoin cash are displayed by default when clicking the crypto tab.
A search for Cardano's ADA, Polkadot's DOT, Stellar's XLM tokens return no results -- for either the protocol or the token's ticker. XRP returned a result for the Ripple XRP Liquid Index, which trades on Nasdaq.
A search for Cardano's ADA, Polkadot's DOT, Stellar's XLM tokens return no results -- for either the protocol or the token's ticker. XRP returned a result for the Ripple XRP Liquid Index, which trades on Nasdaq.
The big businesses have spoken (Score:4, Insightful)
Nobody gives a flying fuck about the environment. Google, Apple, Tesla, etc. Next time they try to shove anything "we're righteous/green/environmental" down your throat, remember all the currently increasing adopters/supporters of Bitcoin. What's next, the governments using bitcoin infrastructure and then telling me to use fewer fucking plastic bags?
You either take a **stance** and don't participate, or you're just going where the smell of money and users are, and change your song accordingly.
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It should be fairly obvious by now and there's plenty assertion to be found online, but I'm not going to google that for you.
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https://spectrum.ieee.org/comp... [ieee.org]
Yes, renewable much. Just an example, not a singular source.
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Am I supposed to be "trendy"now? Who defines the trends anyway, and why? Did you ever stop and think about that?
Also, what's cherry picking? Should I link 50 articles all saying the same thing? What's the point of that?
And what's your point really? "Dude, bitcoin's trending, cool, free $$$ if you bought early"? What's your angle? I have a beef with the greediness of the world and the extent they'll go for extra money, that's my angle.
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Look up "Graham's hierarchy of disagreement", it might enlighten you on how to perform constructive conversation. Oh I forgot, that won't make you rich, so no need.
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Hmm, interesting that you avoid the trends and instead cherry pick.
Even if Bitcoin mining were entirely being done with renewable energy sources, that is clean energy that could have been used for other purposes.
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Funny (Score:2)
Nobody here cared either until a story about bitcoin energy usage ran. Now the haters have focused on it instead of the usual worthless tulip argument.
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So ... people eventually find out (well we need the bloody news), and people start caring, and ... that's weird? Is it a crime, or shameful, to eventually become aware?
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"Google Finance" however, is a bedrock of reality. I mean, WTF? People rely on Google for finance??? Many of us are edging away from Gmail, not committing our financial portfolio to an ad-man outfit.
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Yeah, who cares if a currency is backed by the world's most powerful economy and military superpower... Bitcoin is backed by how much people want to own digital internet collectibles at any given point in time!
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Lol do you have a conversion factor for bitcoin to US military might?
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STOP! (Score:2)
Please, stop this madness. Stop considering cryptocurrencies as real currencies or stock values. Crypto is gambling, and a very ugly form of gambling (in terms of resource consumption and pollution).
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> Crypto is gambling, and a very ugly form of gambling (in terms of resource consumption and pollution).
This strange obsession with "resource consumption and pollution" is interesting. It's never been a real concern- bitcoin only uses more energy as long as it is profitable to do so, after all, and the difficulty of doing anything on bitcoin's blockchain just scales with how many people want a share of the resultant bitcoins.
But, there's a lot of misinformation and straight ignorance here on slashdot a
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> People forget that the only innovation is the decentralization
The decentralization is tied to something that is scarce fundamentally. The innovation you refer to is tied immutably to "proof of X", where "X" is something that cannot be trivially trashed- possibly not even by government actors. Hence demolishing bitcoin's "proof of work", or disrupting its network, are designed to both be ruinous to a country that would be willing to seriously pursue them. The same is true of things such as burstcoin'
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I feel those are fair points, but I don't think that they address what I'm saying. ETH seems reasonably centralized and controlled, largely because they can come together and decide that "proof of work" will be replaced by "who is the fattest dragon", something no one could pull off for bitcoin. But there have definitely been updates to bitcoin over the years, some of them a bit unusual.
But like, LTC is an altcoin. And it is decentralized. Everything bitcoin does, it does... a version of, kinda. I brou
Balanced on a knife edge (Score:2)
We're "lucky" enough to be living through perhaps the single most important pivotal moment in human history. We're either directly living through, or at most a decade away from, a point of no return where we will diverge down one of two paths, either some really deep societal changes towards reduced consumption, 'sustainable' development and massive eco-restoration projects, or business-as-usual until environmental collapse, breadbasket failures, political chaos.
Stories like this really highlight the incred
google finance URL (Score:1)
What about adding the actual link to the article? Even the linked article doesn't link to it.
https://www.google.com/finance [google.com]
Google Finance looks horrible. (Score:2)
TLP +4% (Score:2)
As long as they don't add a tab for tulips, I won't bother checking, they're not really serious about this whole new economy.