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by benmanns 12y ago
The first thing I did when seeing private keys in the documentation was to check if they had anything in them. When they came up empty, I figured someone else would come along and do the same thing. I suppose my experiment was to see how qu
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by benmanns 12y ago
Wow! Tried it with the other private key[0] and the same thing happened. Upon some searching it looks like the recipient belongs to a Russian named amaclin on the Bitcoin forum[1] who has a script running to empty published private keys as
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by benmanns 12y ago
As an experiment I sent 0.0005 BTC to the address corresponding to the private key in the documentation (L1uyy5qTuGrVXrmrsvHWHgVzW9kKdrp27wBC7Vs6nZDTF2BRUVwy -> 17XBj6iFEsf8kzDMGQk5ghZipxX49VXuaV). Within seconds someone had already tran
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by benmanns 12y ago
If the difference between USD - BTC - KES vs KES - USD gets too large, there will be an opportunity for someone to arbitrage.
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by benmanns 12y ago
This is how I've deployed Go code from OSX to a Linux server: brew install go --cross-compile-common GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build scp thebinary user@host:thebinary
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by benmanns 12y ago
I think the 5.75% return is over the 48 month vesting duration, on the extra money you would have earned (and invested). So, the excess (per year) would be something more like (50 (1.0575^3)+50 (1.0575^2)+50*(1.0575^1))/4. (Though it s
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by benmanns 12y ago
Ah, that's pretty cool. Otherwise you can use things like vanitygen to create a similar address. I just created https://duckduckgo.com/?q=1NhLgwwuiyVsBuk3NgJHDztZZ6ejBySbsj
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by benmanns 12y ago
If you keep track of either the short URL or the long URL somewhere on your end, you can get the other part using bitly's link API: http://dev.bitly.com/links.html and the associated metrics with the link metrics API:
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by benmanns 12y ago
I was wondering the same thing. Perhaps "\r\n" is more friendly to Windows or Telnet users?
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by benmanns 12y ago
Alice or Bob have to sign the fee (in addition to the rest of their transaction) with their private key in order for the miner to spend it later.
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by benmanns 12y ago
Except that now the power is in the hands of the manufacturer, who can now execute Sybil attacks.
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by benmanns 13y ago
I would suggest reading through the Express (or any popular project) source code to improve yourself as a JavaScript developer. As you do, there will inevitably be things you notice that should be fixed. E.g. typos, edge cases, refactoring[
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by benmanns 13y ago
500 million of 10 billion is 5%.
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by benmanns 13y ago
Wow! I had no idea. According to http://www.idanalytics.com/news-and-events/news-releases/201... > More than 15 percent of SSNs are associated with two or more people. More than 140,000 SSNs are associated with
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by benmanns 13y ago
But when everyone has a $20 USB stick capable of mining 10k coins a month on today's difficulty, that difficulty will go up dramatically. Mining will always be expensive to everyone but those with early access to next generation hardwa
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by benmanns 13y ago
I think the commenter was referring to the $200 million revenue (not even profit) over the $10B price.
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by benmanns 13y ago
Technology can help to a certain extent, but only if open source and handled client side. No amount of encryption on Apple's (or any company's) end will matter, because users can no longer trust them.
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by benmanns 13y ago
I could see this as being bad from both sides. Even as a relatively unskilled negotiator, I know that you can leave a lot on the table by simply not asking for it. I can see a conversation going along these lines: Me: I'm really
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by benmanns 13y ago
Why not make % accepted requests the KPI instead of # sent requests? The former would encourage a message for every request. The latter encourages mass emails to address books, accidental requests, etc.
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by benmanns 13y ago
How does one get to the .ipa file?
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by benmanns 13y ago
It looks like the author is decompiling the Flash SWF for the Facebook game. Would there be an equivalent way to do this for games on an iPad/iPhone without rooting the device?
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by benmanns 13y ago
Myspace - bands + success http://www.thisplusthat.me/search/Myspace%20-%20bands%20%2B%...
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by benmanns 13y ago
How does the Diffe-Hellman key exchange happen? How do you know that Telegram is not secretly intercepting the keys? Based on the FAQ, it looks like they are using some form of RSA public/private keys. Does each user have their own set
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by benmanns 13y ago
What about reputation? I regularly do more than the legal minimum for my clients and there are companies who do the same for me. Meeting the legal minimums only makes sense for commodities, e.g. this salt is 99.5% pure. This software is 99.
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by benmanns 13y ago
If I own one share of Apple, Exxon, and Wal-Mart, then benmanns-backed companies have a valuation of 481.19B+387.73B+246.74B = 1.12 trillion dollars, but my personal stake is less than one thousand dollars. YC has a diluted 6% of 13.7B. I w
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by benmanns 13y ago
PCI short for PCI DSS which stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. I.e. the standard that regulates how you capture, transmit, or store credit card information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Ca
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by benmanns 13y ago
I think 0-10 is a too large a range. There's a big difference between having $10 worth (~0.07 BTC) and $1500 worth (~10 BTC). The first is what I have, which is basically play money. The latter is a more significant investment.
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by benmanns 13y ago
Not necessarily. If the market is large enough and you control a significant portion of the hashing power (e.g. pool operators), you could bet below and then halt all hashing for the checking period. You would potentially lose a block, but
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by benmanns 13y ago
How does the parimutuel betting work? If I bet now, am I guaranteed the "Betting X Pays Out" amount if I am right, or does that change with more bets on either side?
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by benmanns 13y ago
The Social Network Analysis course on Coursera started yesterday. [0] 0: https://www.coursera.org/course/sna

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