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by abrkn 8y ago
The help system was amazing even for someone who could barely read English at the time.
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by abrkn 8y ago
I spend a lot of time in the tropics (Thailand) and my keyboard gets stuck keys all the time. It's currently my single quote key. I have tried massaging it, smacking it, faith healing, etc. Nothing helps.
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by abrkn 8y ago
I felt great anxiety clicking into docs, fearing some radical change. They're the same and I love them just the way they are. I read them several times a day.
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Show HN: My Weekend Project – Tip with Bitcoin on Telegram(github.com)
4 points by abrkn 9y ago|0 comments
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by abrkn 9y ago
No one knows.
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by abrkn 9y ago
I saw that. He's mentioning a company, "Helix Capital Investments Ltd", that I've never heard of.
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by abrkn 9y ago
Why would something that is "pre alpha" be worth billions of dollars? Just doesn't make sense. IOTA has no utility today.
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by abrkn 9y ago
IOTA an insane cult driven by fear of losing money. No one uses the software. They use social media to attract more bag holders. I read the "rebuff". He looked up the wrong company named "Helix"... I'm not affiliate
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by abrkn 9y ago
I interviewed to work at Ripple in 2013! I don't know how interesting the review would be. Ripple is completely centralized. I'll think about it.
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by abrkn 9y ago
> its first, centralized phase Yikes.
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by abrkn 9y ago
Thanks! It takes quite a while to do it this way, but lets people scroll through and look at screenshots of the nightmare they will now hopefully avoid.
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by abrkn 9y ago
They've had some other scandals too! "Emptied IOTA Wallets: Hackers Steal Millions Using Malicious Seed Generators"[1] [1] https://www.ccn.com/a-number-of-iota-wallets-emptied-by-hack...
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by abrkn 9y ago
Thanks! If you have a shitcoin you want me to review, I'm open to suggestions.
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by abrkn 9y ago
That could happen! Send me a Twitter DM, @abrkn
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by abrkn 9y ago
I'm the author of the blog post. Thanks for posting! I can answer any questions you have about the IOTA review or other shitcoin reviews.
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by abrkn 9y ago
The best part about Google Fi is that you can use it everywhere for the same price. Even in China!
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by abrkn 9y ago
This is a good time to invest in electricity and facilities in Mongolia > Mongolia hosts 10% of the world's known coal reserves at an estimated 162 billion tonnes in 2011 with 17 operating coal mines
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by abrkn 9y ago
You'd be surprised. Bitfinex has added the "SPANK" token of "SpankChain" to its markets[1] [1] https://www.bitfinex.com/t/SPK:USD
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by abrkn 9y ago
The Ledger Nano S hardware wallet can hold just about every cryptocurrency, including ERC20 tokens.
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by abrkn 9y ago
It's $1.15b[1] and most likely to be the result of incoming USD wires. The Tether USD in circulation accounts for 0.36%[2] of the Bitcoin (BTC) market cap. - [1] http://omniexplorer.info/ask.aspx?api=getpropertytotaltok
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by abrkn 9y ago
Like people used to write "Micro$oft" back in the day, the phrase "Bcash" used to imply it's no longer "Bitcoin"
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by abrkn 9y ago
Can anyone else vouch for this being a stable, long term solution for backing up my home directory from macOS? Every single backup/cloud file storage gives me anxiety that I did something wrong or that there are bugs not discovered by
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by abrkn 9y ago
They're worried about having a .in
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by abrkn 9y ago
When I pay my credit car bill. With my San Francisco software engineer salary the FX risk of that $20 is acceptable.
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by abrkn 9y ago
As someone who gets paid in Bitcoin and only has Bitcoin I can explain how it works. I make purchases using Bitcoin or credit cards. I then sell enough Bitcoin to pay the credit card bills.
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by abrkn 9y ago
The funds may be locked away forever unless the Ethereum network "hard forks" by adding a consensus rule exception that specifically releases these funds.
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by abrkn 9y ago
Proof-of-Work gives the token value because something was lost in order to create it
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by abrkn 9y ago
> - Create a digital token system that can be exchanged and accounted freely via a centralized server. This is a database > - Give it a name. Don't even call it a currency, let people use it as money if they want to. A token that
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by abrkn 9y ago
See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Chain_Reorganization
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by abrkn 9y ago
That's me. Maybe I'll do a no GIF version for my next review.

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