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KW

@KesterWong

First principles DFT postdoc by day. Just another curious soul in disruptive tech, fintech, & crypto innovations. All opinions are my own.

 Republic of Korea
Joined January 2012
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01) Why is 47 so special? Forty-seven is a safe prime, an isolated prime, a highly cototient number, an Eisenstein prime, and a Lucas number. 47 is also supersingular prime. It is the last consecutive prime number that divides the order of at least one sporadic group.
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04) Agent 47 (of the Hitman video game) wears a red tie. More recently, Trump becomes the 47th president of the US.
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05) Fight, 5ight, 5ight.
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Just posted a photo @ France-Soir instagram.com/p/ChTvCKylDN8/…
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Note to self, never ever use #Expedia again. Note to self, buy direct from airlines whenever possible. Note to self, A.I's stupidity does (and will) kill human civilization. Expedia does not email you a receipt of your flights, you're at a loss.
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Just posted a photo @ Cannibal Creek Vineyard instagram.com/p/Ca_sDUPl6Ab/…
2021 Nobel Prize in Physics: 🧵 #NotGretaThunberg
Quanta Magazine (@QuantaMagazine) profile pictureQuanta Magazine
@QuantaMagazine5 Oct 2021
Replying to @QuantaMagazine
More than a century ago, Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish physicist, developed a climate model that showed the influence of carbon dioxide on Earth’s atmosphere. Arrhenius aspired to strip the planet’s climate down to its essence.
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Why did someone buy $1.6 billion worth of bitcoin on Wednesday in a matter of minutes? @lvlewitinn considers one possible – and unsettling – explanation in this week’s Crypto Long & Short newsletter. trib.al/OVAwJgM
Who Bought $1.6B in Bitcoin Wednesday, and Why?

Who Bought $1.6B in Bitcoin Wednesday, and Why?

It’s an eerie coincidence that a trade of this size happened on exchanges with ties to Chinese customers during a week beset by that country’s capital market woes.

coindesk.com
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This NFT vs other plebeian NFT 😄
BEAR (@C4R3Bear) profile pictureBEAR@C4R3Bear15 Sep 2021
Replying to @DrBitcoinMD
I made this moar gooder.
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/2 The crypto community and exchanges for the large part have no issue with being regulated. What they do have issue with is regulations that undercut the value proposition of the technology.
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Christmas came early. Buying the dips~!! #BTC #ETH #SOL #LUNA #DOT
CryptoYoda (@CryptoYoda1338) profile pictureCryptoYoda
@CryptoYoda133817 May 2021
$BTC in one chart: rising wedge breakdown, retested resistance then continued to descend, now approaching support of previous Highs and EMA200 on Daily Historically anything under the three drives line is a buy opportunity - assuming this is a correction, not a bear market
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Not a fan of Chyna state-affiliated media, but this video takes the cake 👑 #likeaboss
China Daily (@ChinaDaily) profile pictureChina Daily
@ChinaDaily7 Apr 2021
#OneMoment Never interrupt a dog and his online games!
The day of reckoning for Arthur Hayes of Bitmex
Decrypt (@DecryptMedia) profile pictureDecrypt
@DecryptMedia7 Apr 2021
BitMEX co-founder and ex-CEO Arthur Hayes has surrendered to US authorities to face trial. He's charged with violating the Bank Secrecy Act. decrypt.co/64168/former-bitm…
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Exchanges: A disliked coin that endured multiple 51% attacks, $ETC #ethereumclassic 1) Locked withdrawals; shady exchanges HitBTC: $16.51 Poloniex: $17.07 2) Less shady exch Huobi: $18.71 Binance: $18.74 3) Kimchi premium Bithumb: $23.32 Korbit: $23.14 Upbit: $23.64
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If Lebanon wants help with its economic crisis from around the world, it must get its act together. The country is facing 50% poverty. A #CurrencyBoard would end the need for subsidies & crush inflation, which is now soaring at 331.69%/yr by my measure. aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/2/…
World Bank urges Lebanon to ‘help itself so we can help it’

World Bank urges Lebanon to ‘help itself so we can help it’

'I don’t see any glimmer of hope,' the World Bank’s Middle East and North Africa vice president has told Bloomberg.

aljazeera.com
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01) I don't know when will the NFT hype/buzz would die down. Another meme that you might have already be familiar with, got sold for 400ETH 🤪 teapawt.net/laina622/status/137810… foundation.app/laina/overly-…
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04) However, a Buyer-initiated NFT, could involve so many use-cases, possibilities & potential. For example, authorities can initiate NFT in the event of disaster/crime (where mass is involved), to help with investigations & fact-checking. #911 #GeorgeFloyd #electionfraud
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05) On a lighter side, car/fashion designers can initiate an NFT Buy on obscure models (or even parts) that they no longer manufacture. The benefit of doing so may include a better privacy, where the person behind a source might want pseudo-anonimity.
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