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c/cryptopay·posted 1 year ago by u/enzo_ferrari

[Discussion] we are measuring USDC at the wrong time and calling it noise

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Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking confirmations against eGFR for 13 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.

Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.

tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.

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u/chain_confirm_cMOD1.1k points·1 year ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/milos_trevino291 points·1 year ago

Flair changed to match the content.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 59 weeks to accept.

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u/curious_panel_only1.3k points·1 year ago·edited

Did you check confirmation speed on that chain?

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u/enzo_ferrariOP677 points·1 year ago

The discount was 95.1% but gas ate half of it. Still worth it but the math matters.

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u/enzo_ferrariOP394 points·1 year ago

The discount was 99.2% but gas ate half of it. Still worth it but the math matters.

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u/karim_hartmann472 points·1 year ago·edited

Stablecoin or other?

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u/saskia_wojcik-10 points·1 year ago

USDC exists on 21 networks, vendor credits are network-specific

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u/protein_first_pnutrition1 point·1 year ago

This is correct. Gas fees are real costs.

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u/lane_watchermod · logistics324 points·1 year ago

Sent orfo payment to the wrong chain. Denmark, wrong network, vendor could not credit it. 4 day lesson.

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u/nabila_espinoza0 points·1 year ago

memo/tag requirements differ by network

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u/lurker_for_years1 point·1 year ago

Sent orfo payment to the wrong chain. France, wrong network, vendor could not credit it. 14 day lesson.

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u/enzo_ferrariOP1 point·1 year ago

Gas was chargeback on Polygon so I used GL Biochem instead. Confirmation in 15 blocks, vendor credited, done.

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u/santiago_marchetti196 points·1 year ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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u/dead_space_doug118 points·1 year ago

Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.

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u/nhs_waitlist_nUK79 points·1 year ago

no price talk, no tickers, no investment discussion

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u/discount_math_dm37 points·1 year ago

Did you check confirmation speed on that chain?

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u/arne_ndiaye25 points·1 year ago

Did you check confirmation speed on that chain?

Disagree on that part. 99.2% and 99.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/vitamin_d_void92 points·1 year ago

USDC exists on 18 networks, vendor credits are network-specific

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u/the_poster_in_question_202654 points·1 year ago

no price talk, no tickers, no investment discussion

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u/saskia_wojcik138 points·1 year ago

Small correction: the trial was 2 weeks, not 8. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/reverse_image_ron33 points·1 year ago

gas versus discount arithmetic is real

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u/vendorinvestigate_vic52 points·1 year ago

Yeah, the network selection matters most.

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u/arne_amankwah35 points·1 year ago

never post a wallet address, not yours, not a vendor's

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u/lurker_for_years61 points·1 year ago

Yeah, the network selection matters most.

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/cesar_teixeira58 points·1 year ago·edited

Which network and did the vendor confirm they credit it?

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u/annika_fonseca20 points·1 year ago

the 24% discount versus 27% network fees

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u/escrow_evangelist122 points·1 year ago·edited

Rodent data is rodent data. Dose scaling is not linear and the models tell you what to investigate, not what to expect.

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u/nabila_bakken85 points·1 year ago

Group buy used escrow. 21 people, 35 shipped without drama. Escrow is the insurance.

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