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FatalLogic
13y ago
Obviously the conversation has been heavily edited. Nobody really speaks so clearly and succinctly. To me, it looks probable that she really said something like "I would like to ask him about Bitcoin. This man is Satoshi Nakamoto. I th
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13y ago
You could simply let them know that you will accept it. They'll tell you if they're interested. Just suggest , don't attempt to convince . It may not be welcome. Payment methods would be either through a third party process
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13y ago
Perhaps good design can help deal with some of that fear? Most people can handle being in elevators OK, despite being in claustrophobic box full of people, hanging on a cable, inside a vertical tunnel. They just don't think about where
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13y ago
Yes, and a dessicant, like silica gel, to absorb moisture.
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13y ago
Be very careful about condensation if you do this.
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FatalLogic
13y ago
Please stop doing this. It won't be tolerated here, and it will become difficult to post anything about dogecoin in future if you keep spamming it. This place is far stricter than Reddit.
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13y ago
>it's not trolling, he raises many valid points and he's not the first to do it. Though he has done much fine writing before, I was really disappointed by this post by Charlie Stross. The arguments are weak and poorly supported
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13y ago
>This pseudo-Gini is meaningless, since addresses!=people. It is meaningless but not really for that reason. The estimation of Gini Coefficient that Charlie Stross links was calculated by the Bitcoinica exchange from their client list.
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13y ago
Mt Gox is acting like a futures market. Many people invest dollars into Bitcoin because they believe it will increase in dollar value. If they exchange their Bitcoins for dollars at Mt Gox, they know they will have to wait to get the dollar
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13y ago
I bought a laptop recently. The price was a little higher than if I had paid old fashioned money, about $700 instead of $680-690. But I needed one. I guessed the price of Bitcoin would be likely to go down temporarily, which was right. It w
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13y ago
Indeed. It's a commentary on the "me to" nature of the cryptocurrency scene. Anybody can clone bitcoin-qt and change the strings to "MyCoin" or "GiveMeBucksPls". BBQCoin is in the same vein. What's ab
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14y ago
I love the story, but as you found out, conditions can be surprisingly different up there. If you have some bad luck (twist an ankle or take an unwise short cut), you will be customers for mountain rescue, which is kind of embarrassing.