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Paul Graham Endorses Bitcoin
- dacoinminster 14y agoHe endorses it $164k worth. Awesome. The person who makes bitcoin easy to use will be famous, and possibly very rich. Go coinbase! 19hMEAaRMbEhfSkeU4GT8mgSuyR4t4M6TH
- coderrr 14y agoif you want 0.5 BTC you gotta put an email because I'm going to send it through coinbase.com not the BTC network itself
- AdmiralBeotch 14y agoYou should consider a feature for coinbase to allow for btc to be sent (via lookup) to email addresses. For instance, the Electrum client allows this by the recipient hosting a bitcoin url on their domain. julian@tosh.us maps to http://tosh.us/bitcoin.id/julian http://tosh.us/bitcoin.id/julian which returns my bitcoin address.
- dacoinminster 14y agojr (dot) willett (at) gmail (dot) com - thanks!
- euccastro 14y agoHere's my piece of insight: I find paying for comments pathetic, distasteful and disrespectful to HN.
- coderrr 14y agoThe goal is to help spread usage of the YC startup and indirectly bitcoin.
- coderrr 14y agoWe removed the end of our post about paying the first 5 people 0.5 BTC through coinbase since it seems that's probably what got this post killed from the front page. Kinda sad since the intention was clearly to help promote coinbase.com
- duiker101 14y agoNo, it's not sad it's correct. you are cheating and it's a scammish thing to so.
- coderrr 14y agoCheating on getting comments? I really didn't care if we had comments or not, I thought it was a good enough post on its own. I thought giving the first 5 people a prize through a YC company wouldn't be seen as scamming. I could see the argument that if everyone did that HN would be shit. But I don't really see HN having many opportunities for people to do that.
- dfgonzalez 14y agoI haven't found so far how to import my own Bitcoin wallet...
- davidkellis 14y agoI don't think that funding coinbase constitutes PG's endorsement [of bitcoin].
- coderrr 14y agoHow about his indirect endorsement?
- davidkellis 14y agoPerhaps.
- tzs 14y agoWhere is this indirect endorsement? I see nothing on the linked page that supports this. All it says is that Graham has funded a Bitcoin-related startup, and then declares that this must mean he indirectly endorses it. I don't see how you make that inference. You can infer that Graham believes that there is money to be made in Bitcoin services, but not that he endorses Bitcoin itself.
- coderrr 14y agoI see 'believing that there is money to be made in Bitcoin services' as 'indirectly endorsing Bitcoin'
- discountgenius 14y agoBitcoin currently lacks legitimacy and security. Paul Graham helps with the former, time will tell about the latter.
- AdmiralBeotch 14y agoBitcoin, the protocol, has never been hacked - only services built on top of the protocol.
- zaptheimpaler 14y agoI think ycombinator has been interested in the space of online payments for a while now (they funded WePay in 2009, and Stripe last year), and bitcoins could very well be a game changer in that respect. This might not be a new endorsement, just a continuation of their strategy in that respect. email: ankitsoni9 !a-t! gmail !d-o-t! com
- duiker101 14y agowhy did you put an email in your comment? P.S. Oh, i see, paid comments. sad.
- zaptheimpaler 14y agoYou see a sad comment, I see a 1 minute job that gave me $3 and a good incentive to learn a bit more about bitcoins. Also, I like money. boohoo.
- urbanjunkie 14y agoIt's not the comment that's sad, it's the fact that for a pitifully low sum of money you were happy to shred the integrity of your comment.
- zaptheimpaler 14y agoShow me the part where I threw away the integrity of my comment. The comment doesn't pay lip-service to Coinbase (having never used it), and is basically the comment I would've written regardless.
- realize 14y agoIf Paul Graham endorses something, he'll write an essay explaining exactly why. Investing is gambling, and he's seeing what happens. On the off-chance that bitcoin does survive getting in early could pay off bigtime.