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Reminds me of a time that I played a Bitcoin poker game at some Google VP's place up in the hills with Charlie Lee and a few other early crypto luminaries in 20
by jboggan 4y ago
Reminds me of a time that I played a Bitcoin poker game at some Google VP's place up in the hills with Charlie Lee and a few other early crypto luminaries in 2014. It took us over an hour to figure out sending BTC to the "buy-in" pot because most of us had 2FA enabled on our Coinbase accounts and the cell reception was so bad at that we couldn't get our confirmation texts. We ended up writing IOUs on a sheet of paper.
I thought, "if the people in the vanguard of this movement can't figure this out, maybe it isn't all that it's cracked up to be".
- elif 4y agothe first man to ever build and sell a car, recounting his critics in the transportation industry: “There’s nothing the matter with me. It’s you! You’re crazy if you think this fool contraption you’ve been wasting your time on will ever displace the horse.”
- arcticbull 4y agoDo you have a citation for that?
- 3a2d29 4y agoAhh the classic “people were wrong once about a technology, therefore all potential technologies are good.” So if I found a quote about someone saying nuclear energy would power cars…would that disprove crypto? I guess so
- outworlder 4y agoThe contraption actually had some utility.
- bhtru 4y agoThat's more on simply poor cell service if anything at all though no? The tech even then seemingly worked for you then. Your anecdotal is comparable to saying students at a college not being able to add one another on Facebook in it's early days, because the campus Wi-Fi was on the fritz.
- blahblah123456 4y agoYes, but in real life blame doesn't matter. What matters is the alternative (a hardwired credit card terminal or cash) would've worked, and this didn't.
- CameronNemo 4y agoA real cryptocurrency wallet also would have worked.
- colinmhayes 4y ago90% of people won't use their own wallets.
- phs318u 4y agoI think 90% is a massive underestimate. EDITED to correct autocorrect.
- CameronNemo 4y agoThen 90% of people don't get crypto or don't care. Which seems to be true. They just keep it in their coinbase or robinhood account and wait for the price to go (back) up until they sell.
- adrr 4y agoI wonder what percentage of the crypto population has wallets compared to having all their crypto on an exchange. I don’t know anyone with a wallet.
- serf 4y agohaving all of your currency on an exchange, regardless of the currency, has never been a good idea. (signed a MtGox victim.)
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- dubswithus 4y agoGoogle VP doesn’t have decent Wifi?
- lupire 4y agoIn 2014 it was hard to give out the wifi password, I guess.
- InitialBP 4y agoWifi access does not universally mean the ability to receive texts, it can depend on your particular device and mobile carrier.
- 0des 4y agoWait how do I do text over wifi?
- derekp7 4y agoI believe Google Voice can do text directly from the app, no cell service required (just an internet connection). And my phone service has been able to do LTE over WIFI for a number of years.
- PebblesRox 4y agoYes, in college I carried a cheap pay-per-minute flip-phone plus an iPod touch. Most of the time I had wifi and could text for free from the iPod using Google Voice. In the rare cases when I was not in a place with wifi, I could just use the phone. It was a nice setup :)
- 0des 4y agoAh my phone doesn't have apps, that makes sense though.
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- lupire 4y agoI'd like to hear more stories of the antics of these "luminaries".
- deadbunny 4y ago"crypto luminaries" using Coinbase...
- quickthrower2 4y agoCoinbase isn’t the movement
- g_hn_liaison 4y ago> We ended up writing IOUs on a sheet of paper. I imagine that the ancient version of this story is exactly how money began in the first place. "Man, it was just too hard to coordinate who got how many cows for the rocks, we just wrote a bunch of IOUs"
- alar44 4y agoYep, crop futures. People wanted the security of procuring food for next season before it was harvested.