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12y ago
I suppose that would be true if exchanging BTC to local fiat was a "headache" for me. In my country and with my experience it hasn't been a headache at all between the local exchanges I can walk up in person or online.
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12y ago
Transfers of a certain size were never free, the fee however is tiny (0.0001 BTC) and doesn't compare to transfer fees or other international money transfer service fees.
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12y ago
Nobody uses BTC like this for anything (pay or purchase). At the time of payment you would convert your fiat value into BTC and make your payment, the other side is free to keep the BTC to convert it instantly into their local fiat.
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12y ago
There's nothing stopping you from converting the BTC to fiat the moment you get paid, or for a service to automatically do this like BTC merchant services (no idea if this service does it). For merchants Bitpay guarantees that you'
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12y ago
If you're willing to deal with delays and exchange rate fees, sure.
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12y ago
Pretending Quebec is a small province, it also helps a lot to work in Ontario near Ottawa.
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12y ago
It gets a bit worse than that I believe, officially to this date the blame is still on Iran for flying an airliner according to it's flight plan and in the commercial traffic corridor.
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12y ago
What are you shirt printing costs? I know the amount of colors and things used factor in as well as the amount of shirts ordered. also how many shirts to you print for your first run?
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12y ago
For some reason when I go to this site, my Dell monitor seems to do a humming noise. It gets slightly louder when I scroll to the bottom.
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12y ago
i just find it ironic they used flash since there's webgl solutions now for this that would work on mobile devices a lot better.
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12y ago
The thing is, you don't need 1GB/sec for an 11-13" laptop.
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13y ago
they've always looked incompetent, slightly more than people who kept their money with them before this entire thing happened.
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13y ago
It wasn't just one writer or person in the industry saying this at the time. I'm not sure why this article got posted here today, but I think it's likely to make us reflect at how terrible some of these analysts and firms ar
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13y ago
I'm not saying the Nokia Windows phones are good or bad, but they aren't amazing and rocking the market right now. But your comment brings up another point, it's not just about the hardware these days like it used to be for
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13y ago
I haven't seen the new moto phone anywhere myself or heard it make any news other than Verge type site reviews, so what does "fairly" successful mean? Nokia isn't making anything amazing these days, i suppose they are ma
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13y ago
Can these app makers put their source up so we can build and install it on our own phones? it seems like a bitcoin wallet app should likely be open source anyways to make sure it's secured.
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13y ago
Well, at least the Internet in the US. Other countries have their own laws and regulations.
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13y ago
what, ptp and tvt all seem to be down and cloudflare customers, they've been mostly down for over a week now (tvt was fine until recently). there seems to be a trend where media torrent sites are targeted and i'm wondering how it&
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13y ago
what if he doesn't want to be found?
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13y ago
I go out every night and mostly only at night when it's -20C. I do stay in when it goes below that usually, you just need to get used to it and dress properly. This is just something you need to change yourself and get used to, it won
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13y ago
I'm not anti JB or anything, and used to JB my devices all the time but for the most part iOS has changed a lot since the early days and like others I find I don't need to JB to use it how I want now. I do wish you could JB the la
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13y ago
yes, you can trade or buy the tiniest amount (fraction) of bitcoin. -0.01 BTC = 1 cBTC = 1 centibitcoin (also referred to as bitcent) -0.001 BTC = 1 mBTC = 1 millibitcoin (also referred to as mbit (pronounced em-bit) or millibit or even bit
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13y ago
that doesn't make any sense. it will be $1000/btc in less than a year.
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13y ago
Just remember there's a good chance one of your parents will die a lot sooner than you or this site actually estimates. My dad passed away rather quickly fighting cancer back when I was 25, he only got an extra 2 years after he found o
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13y ago
like Mike Daisey when pretended his stuff was fact?
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13y ago
So what's the actual "hack"? A proxy?
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13y ago
It could have been much worse, $50K default penalty if he ignored it or his apps and others going off the market.
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13y ago
HT is not worthless on Linux. It's not a true core but it does increase performance quite a bit, especially on a busy server.
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13y ago
You can clearly see their capacity with the OVH Weather Map and it really doesn't show that being the case for at least North America (I know it's not peak time but I've been keeping tabs on it at peak almost every day for th
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13y ago
I don't really think $20 increase is 'major' considering the hardware is brand new compared to the older SP model with a much faster CPU (i7 vs i5 class) and the other upgrades that came with it.
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