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by beaner 12y ago
Also just the fact that once you hit 53,000 people, you can't really say "I didn't expect this from X company" as if the company is a single person whose character is automatically imbued into every employee.
872.
by beaner 12y ago
There are easy to use solutions on the market for accepting bitcoin payments and converting instantly to USD. Bitpay and Coinbaes both do this. On Bitpay it goes straight to your bank, on Coinbase you can do the same thing or even leave it
873.
by beaner 12y ago
I tried signing up and I keep getting this: "Password must be at least 8 characters and must include at least one upper case letter, one lower case letter, and one numeric digit" even though my password meets the requirements. Als
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by beaner 12y ago
Obviously they would not sell it all at once. If you're speculating they'd put many months of effort into an ETF, there's no reason they couldn't alternatively spread their sells out over many months, meaning it'd a
875.
by beaner 12y ago
If they wanted out why wouldn't they just sell it on the open market?
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by beaner 12y ago
CoinX doesn't have a real product though do they? Does it count if you have the licenses but no exchange to use them with?
877.
by beaner 12y ago
The problem is that people who think they have the technical ability to do it right is astronomically higher than reality, not because people overestimate themselves, but because they underestimate the difficulty of "rolling your own b
878.
by beaner 12y ago
This is a religious view speaking. More bitcoin has probably been lost due to people thinking they should handle it themselves, and doing it wrong, than has been lost to all the big hacks including Mt. Gox. A survey from a while ago reflect
879.
by beaner 12y ago
"deregulation" isn't a religion. Just because there are options to use it in a way outside of regulation, does not mean all uses have to fall under it. Forcing that is like forcing anything else, and would be more statist tha
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by beaner 12y ago
With all the security experts coming out saying that it's really likely it wasn't an attack by North Korea, maybe this is one of those things they call a "false flag" operation.
881.
by beaner 12y ago
Why? I don't get anything particularly insightful at all from this snippet.
882.
by beaner 12y ago
Should someone be rewarded with "a lifetime of financial security" if their product turns out to be hype that has no value two years later?
883.
by beaner 12y ago
This is silly. I bet you can't drive through a swamp in a jeep, because you haven't acquired the skill. But that doesn't mean the rest of your driving doesn't qualify as real driving.
884.
by beaner 12y ago
I don't understand how you can literally have a picture of colored fibers produced in the skin by this phenomenon, and also blame it on a mental issue. Am I missing something or is the author totally writing off the very empirical evid
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by beaner 12y ago
If you had told me that ASMR was a real thing five years ago, I probably would not have understood, and thought it was a bunch of baloney. About a year ago, gross as it is, I noticed I actually kind of enjoyed the sound of one of my coworke
886.
by beaner 12y ago
This is really all I want as well. There's tons of pretty messaging apps. Style isn't enough to sway me anymore - I want privacy. How hard is it to make a messaging app that makes encryption its #1 priority?
887.
by beaner 12y ago
This reply is in direct contradiction to your first reply to me, which was a write-off of my laughing at the situation.
888.
by beaner 12y ago
That sentence in context applies to Inbox, not Gmail. Edit: Not sure why downvoted. I'm not being sarcastic, please read the article, it's right there.
889.
by beaner 12y ago
The whole situation is not funny. That was my point.
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by beaner 12y ago
What's really hilarious is that not only did the vast majority of the bitcoin community not get scammed, but you don't have to be a bitcoin user to be ponzi-scheme'd, since it happens to people everywhere all the time! It&#
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by beaner 12y ago
They're obviously not going to be making much more money from this. 95.5% of users do not store more than a TB. From the brief snippet provided, it doesn't seem like a bait-and-switch was their intention. > the low demand combi
892.
by beaner 12y ago
IMO Sundar has executed brilliantly at the things he's been tasked with so far, so I'm excited to see him take on more responsibility.
893.
by beaner 12y ago
> most of that fee goes back to the consumer in the form of reward programs. I don't really buy this. Why not just not have the fees and let prices be lower so that consumers have more cash? Cash is always better. I assume most peop
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by beaner 12y ago
Most of the employees of those companies do not work on those problems. This seriously underappreciates all of the amazing products, open source work, and research that these companies have provided - and that is what the vast majority of t
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by beaner 12y ago
That doesn't really signify anything. If you made it sound like multisig was in the current version, and he rightfully didn't know anything about multisig in the current version - because, in fact, it was not the case - then you a
896.
by beaner 12y ago
If multisig applies to a future product and not the one that was released then it sounds like he was being factual with you. Not sure what you expect - for him to be non-factual? As for high risk cancellations, do you expect them to approve
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by beaner 12y ago
> thieves don't target "how" you pay (push vs pull doesn't matter) but target where you store your wealth. I wasn't arguing against this. Your credit card is where your wealth is stored, if it can be used to purc
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by beaner 12y ago
- Chargebacks happen when cards are stolen. Cards are stolen because they are fundamentally pull payment methods. Every time you pay, you hand the keys to your money over to someone else. Think about this for a second, because it is absolut
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by beaner 12y ago
You make it sound like they use it once and put it down forever. They don't. They put it down to go play (which, at that age, is another type of learning). Then they come back, maybe later that day, or the next. Haven't there been
900.
by beaner 12y ago
Bitcoin owns its meteoric rise to the fact that it provides real value that other currencies can't - partly, that it's pseudonymous and doesn't require going through a 3rd party like a bank. Silk road was just a demonstration

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