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by awt 12y ago
Probably not a huge deal as phones become more and more powerful.
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by awt 12y ago
AKA Bitmessage
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by awt 12y ago
No mention of Bitmessage, which provides E2E crypto and anti-spam.
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by awt 12y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure how to answer that. Hoarding increases the unit price relative to other assets, but doesn't make it any less liquid. Essentially infinitely small amounts of bitcoin can be transacted at any time.
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by awt 12y ago
I suppose that would work if you trust the consumer price index. My own experience belies reported low inflation.
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by awt 12y ago
There isn't right now. Someday Bitcoin might fill that role.
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by awt 12y ago
Gold ETFs are fubar. Gold itself is not very liquid. There are all sorts of prohibitive fees and tax penalties for taking money out of a 401k or a mutual fund before a certain date. The barrier to accessing the value represented by any
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by awt 12y ago
What about allowing people to store wealth in a non-depreciating, attainable, liquid asset (something besides USD or mutual funds or a home made out of plywood), and limiting liability for health providers?
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by awt 12y ago
Way to go, Greg!
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by awt 12y ago
True. Pardons are usually only given to people actually did something wrong.
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by awt 12y ago
What about a presidential pardon?
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by awt 12y ago
It looks like it's broken. We will fix ASAP. Message me here for an update: BM-2cVsnhcfNkU1D87u4hy7SfYw3qZ9m7Su55
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by awt 12y ago
PGP AFAIK is simply encrypting the content of an email with the public key of the person you're going to send it to. The address is public. PGP is a bit of a hassle in terms of exchanging public keys and integrating with legacy email
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by awt 12y ago
Yes. This is a bitmessage client. It is also opensource.
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by awt 12y ago
Bitmessage is not a service. There's no central server. Also, it is opensource -- as is the Bitpost app.
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by awt 12y ago
Correct.
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by awt 12y ago
There is no blockchain. Messages are broadcast (encrypted) to everyone on the network. The biggest similarity to bitcoin is the use of a "Proof of Work" concept. The mechanism for this is different, however.
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by awt 12y ago
Collaborator here. Good point. Thanks.
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by awt 12y ago
Disclosure: I contributed (in a small way) to this project. I agree. I'm not sure who posted this link but the title should say something about Bitmessage in it.
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by awt 12y ago
I collaborated on this project. The color scheme is completely configurable. there's a file in the app wrapper named theme.json that you can use to customize the fonts and colors.
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by awt 12y ago
You should try paying for something with BTC once, just for fun.
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by awt 12y ago
http://www.amazon.com/The-Gervais-Principle-Complete-Ribbonf...
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by awt 12y ago
Some of his reasons for why he writes seem to be the same as why I work on software. I love this. I've been in a slump for months where I've lacked inspiration to work on anything. Maybe realizing that doing things for attentio
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by awt 13y ago
Yeah don't access your blockchain.info wallet on a shared computer at an internet cafe, if you can find one of those anywhere still, sure. But maybe try your laptop, unless you lost that at the same time you lost your phone. Maybe tr
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by awt 13y ago
There are many cases where credit cards don't work so well. Traveling abroad for instance. Every had your card denied because of a false positive for fraud? Ever lost your card on a trip? They won't send it to you where you&#x
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by awt 13y ago
After a certain point, if you've made enough friends, you will likely never have to interview for a position again unless you want to. Interviewing is where ageism is probably most pernicious, and that process can be avoided.
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by awt 13y ago
This is fundamentally a problem with centralization that is probably temporary. Decentralization is coming in a big way and when it does these sorts of shenanigans will not be so easy to pull off.
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by awt 13y ago
Thanks.
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by awt 13y ago
Why has no one spoken with Nick Szabo?
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by awt 13y ago
Was just thinking about the implications of my DL scan being out on the net and potential attempts at identity theft. Excluding market risks, my money is now safer in a properly generated cold bitcoin wallet than it is in my bank account.

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