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by M4v3R 13y ago
Thanks, grab a couple of good beers :).
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by M4v3R 13y ago
This is awesome. Where can I donate?
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by M4v3R 13y ago
They couldn't. If you pegged the price to one, there wouldn't be enough units for everyone to buy anything they want. Remember that there are only 12 million of them, and only ~20 million will be ever available. Tying their value
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by M4v3R 13y ago
I'm not talking about confirming transactions of merchant customers. I'm talking about confirming withdrawals from the merchant accounts.
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by M4v3R 13y ago
> You cannot automate a cold-wallet scheme. That's why I said that it would be manual. Actually, it could be semi-automatic - a script could generate all relevant transactions, and a human operator could simply confirm them few time
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by M4v3R 13y ago
Yes and no. While all transactions are public, you can use a "mixing service" that will mix your Bitcoins with other people's Bitcoins, effectively covering their origin.
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by M4v3R 13y ago
Ugh. There are much better solutions than keeping user funds in the hot wallet (fully cold storage with manual withdrawals, multi-signature wallets), but many "reputable" businesses STILL uses them. I don't understand why. If
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by M4v3R 13y ago
It definitely won't hurt you, implementing Bitcoin payments isn't very hard and you usually don't pay anything to get started. You could also get free publicity if you have a good item listing and accept Bitcoin, because stil
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by M4v3R 13y ago
The problem with this idea is that with current Bitcoin protocol implementation it will not work. As of Bitcoin 0.8.2 the network doesn't relay transactions with "dust" outputs - transactions that are sending 0.00005430 BTC o
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by M4v3R 13y ago
Donations - Bitcoin is great for it, and there are many organizations, small and big, that accept it. One of them (not mine): http://seansoutpost.com eBay style trading - I once bought a $100 trillion Zimbabwe dollar bill for Bi
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by M4v3R 13y ago
Those reports that you've read are basically the same as you would read that some small, obscure bank with anonymous owners was robbed and people lost their money. That doesn't tell you anything about the currency that was stored
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by M4v3R 13y ago
It's just law of the market. Bitcoin has limited supply (only 21M will ever be "mined" and even less in circulation due to lost wallets) and ever growing demand. Most recently Chinese got interested in Bitcoin, so the demand
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by M4v3R 13y ago
Shameless plug: Bitalo [1] will solve this problem very soon, because we don't use hosted shared wallets. Instead, we use a feature of Bitcoin protocol named multi signature addresses, in which two private keys are used to spend funds,
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by M4v3R 13y ago
Yep, that's exactly what it is.
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What's wrong with posting an alternative solution to the problem? If someone else developed this kind of service, I would post it here instead, because I'm in Bitcoin from 2011 and I believe it will succeed. Unfortunately no one t
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by M4v3R 13y ago
It's probably because the market for such services is slowly saturating. Entry bar is quite high, and people are not willing to use newly released services as much anymore, as it was before. So yeah, it's good that the rate is dec
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by M4v3R 13y ago
Who would manage such database of "shunned" Bitcoins? Who would decide which ones are "shunned" and which aren't? This is a delicate topic, almost as much controversial as censoring internet to get rid of child porn
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by M4v3R 13y ago
You can still use a "mixing" service, which takes many coins from many sources and mixes it in a way that you can't tell anymore what is the source of Bitcoins you received. Blockchain.info operates one of these.
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by M4v3R 13y ago
4100 BTC = 1.1 mil USD at current prices. These Bitcoins were stolen from website's "hot wallet" (every shared wallet has to operate one to process current withdrawals). This hot wallet was probably too hot though, as it seem
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by M4v3R 13y ago
OP: You should celebrate on your 1024th day, it's a more round number :).
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by M4v3R 13y ago
This is just badass. He also did Portal 2 IIRC.
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Microsoft does Windows (1983)(books.google.pl)
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by M4v3R 13y ago
I got the exact opposite impression. This event seemed refreshing, presenters were funny, and there were some suprises (new and free iWork, free Mavericks). It was also well paced, they didn't use as much "amazing" and "
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by M4v3R 13y ago
I was looking for Kim Dotcom on the list, but didn't found him. Maybe it's because he actually changed his name to this, and wasn't naturally born with it. Still, he's a great example of a person having an Aptronym name.
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by M4v3R 13y ago
Apple uses HTTP Live Streaming protocol. VLC should be able to play it just fine. You will probably need a custom URL to feed VLC though. I'll paste the URL here once it's available. EDIT: Quick bash script for extracting VLC-play
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by M4v3R 13y ago
At the same time it's now $190 on Bitstamp. What's nice that the volume at MtGox was pretty high lately, ranging from 10-50K BTC per day. That's up to 10M USD traded daily we're talking about.
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by M4v3R 13y ago
There are probably no benchmarks yet, but from my experience (I use both 10.8 and 10.9 regularly) Mavericks does a better job on battery than Mountain Lion, with about 1 hour of usage added. This is on 2012, 13" Air. The 2013 model wil
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by M4v3R 13y ago
Very relevant - Market emotions cycle: http://cuffelinks.com.au/wp-content/uploads/AO-cycles.png
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by M4v3R 13y ago
The problem is, that in a P2P system you don't have only scammers that will not fulfill the trade. You also have careless people, who will mess something up, forget about the transaction, delete their clients/wallets, etc. With th
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by M4v3R 13y ago
> If anyone doesn't meet the transaction contract (send the money or send the bitcoins), both lose the deposit. Am I understanding this correctly that if a buyer tries to scam the seller in whatever way (i.e. will initially sign the

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