Why tethering is stupid

That's what I did. We simply migrated our game over to it after I got it set up. It's insanely easy to set up, it's FREE, and you can password protect it and everything so that nobody unauthorized can come on.

But you'll solve the tether problem and you won't have to worry about overpopulation if you're only hosting for people. Pretty good solution, IF you've got the PC specs for it. Originally posted by NinjaSwick :. Aro View Profile View Posts. I'd suggest using raw sockets. Ports needed; , , Using my k and 16gb ram to host for two.

It generally uses 3gb ram though I've not watched it closely. Originally posted by Aro :. Per page: 15 30 Date Posted: 15 Nov, pm. Posts: 8. Discussions Rules and Guidelines. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic harassment, fighting, or rude posts.

All rights reserved. Don't get me wrong. Tethering is great for people who want quick-and-dirty, rock-bottom cheap connectivity only occasionally, and without a small additional charge for mobile broadband electronics built in. But for most users, who would like to connect from anywhere using their existing cell phone data plan, tethering is a ridiculous, burdensome kludge created artificially by carrier greed. Connecting via cell phone mobile broadband is much, much better when you do it directly from the laptop itself.

But that requires a second, expensive data plan. The reason is that -- in case you hadn't noticed -- the carriers want to rip you off. But that's the business model: Make your customers suffer some indignity in order to coerce them to pay absurdly high rates for what they really want.

That's what tethering is: It's the indignity carriers make you suffer in order to coerce you to pay astronomically high rates for a second data plan. Adding a second device to your existing plan is a simple administrative change that could easily be made by the carriers. But the carriers are addicted to coercive pricing like crack. They want to force you to sign up for a separate, second plan -- or, as an alternative, you they can punish you by making you suffer through the inconvenience and bad performance of tethering.

How much extra do they want to charge you? The answer is complicated because carriers love confusing, arbitrary and unpredictable pricing plans. That's why most users don't do it, and are grateful -- at least at first -- for mobile broadband. After months of hemming and hawing from regulators, chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission Gary Gensler has now clearly asked for more authority to regulate cryptocurrency.

In fact, the way to get rid of stablecoins might just be… the dollar but digital. These digital currencies, which are pegged to other assets such as the US dollar or the Euro, are primarily used as payment mechanisms.

Some stablecoins are centralized, as well. That rendered those funds useless to the attacker. Tether is already in contact with the project that suffered the breach. Tether validate the freeze and programs reissuance of funds. Happened in the past with Kucoin hack and others.

Payments, says Bruce Mizrach, an economics professor at Rutgers. The same is true of USDC, another stablecoin. Some of that delay is that Mars has to comply with anti-money laundering laws to exit cryptocurrency back into the US dollar. Now, he could instead exit his Bitcoin trade into a dollar-pegged cryptocurrency. The relatively quick transaction would mean that his funds would be available to go into another investment right away.

If Mars is trying to do rapid trading, he might choose to do this instead of moving back and forth between the traditional banking system and cryptocurrency. Stablecoins can also be used for margin trading.

Our buddy Mars can borrow money from an exchange such as Kraken, which will use its own funds to help execute the trade. But Mars has to put up some collateral for the loan, and stablecoins can be useful for that.

Margin trading is risky — it can lead to very big losses. It is! To the extent they are, we will apply the full investor protections of the Investment Company Act and the other federal securities laws to these products. Cryptocurrency regulation is kind of a hot topic right now, though, and Gensler used to teach courses on cryptocurrency during his last gig at MIT. Well, stablecoins are huge. The most popular one, Tether, launched in and is pegged to the dollar. USDT tokens are involved in half of worldwide Bitcoin trades.

And there have been questions about whether movements in Tether have created price manipulation in Bitcoin. Apparently, this works. In , it was originally called Realcoin, and the idea was that it would be backed by the US dollar on a one-to-one basis.