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by brighton36 12y ago
ISPs in the 90s never cooperated to form a neutral standard for content design and layout because there was never a standard that could possibly serve any one of their interests without coming at an expense to every other member in a coalit
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by brighton36 12y ago
Until there's a system that works for consumers 98% of the time or more, consumers will continue to reach into their wallets for a plastic card. Proprietary software vendors are never going to hit that rate of acceptance, and for the m
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by brighton36 12y ago
You are clearly an American :) Also, Amazon would approximately double its profit if it were not forced to pay the 2% markup on credit card charges. And before you criticize coinbase for their 1% conversion fee circle is here with 0% :)
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by brighton36 12y ago
Yes. If you want a more exact number, it's probable that the charges will be significantly less than typical miner tips. It may even be absorbed by miners in order to give the miner a better lead-time on entries in the mempool.
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by brighton36 12y ago
Yes. Probably they will be free. Bitpay offers BIP70 for free to its merchants.
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by brighton36 12y ago
Of the many problems with Proof of Stake, "Centralization" and the trivial-ness of a rollback are probably the two largest. (Though the "nothing is at stake" argument is very compelling) It's likely that Stake-chain
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by brighton36 12y ago
In PoW chains 10 second confirmations are a bug, not a feature. If Bitcoin's confirmation times were 10 seconds, you would have 1/60th the amount of hashing power/energy securing a block to the chain, which would be trivial t
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by brighton36 12y ago
>unlike Bitcoin, there is immediate use value for ether within the Ethereum network. You've clearly not used Counterparty yet. Give it a try, it's easy, offers a great featureset, and works 'today'.
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by brighton36 13y ago
If you have the discipline to teach yourself front-end engineering in high school, you have the discipline to teach yourself anything in realm of applied computer science. Github has replaced the college degree in this field, and differenti
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by brighton36 13y ago
http://www.coinpost.com ! It's a thing. Check it out
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by brighton36 13y ago
IMHO - This is a similar project, albeit with more features, and much better code coverage on the tests: https://github.com/brighton36/CoinPost Though, I am the author, so I get that I'm a bit biased ;)
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Want to Start your own Bitcoin Marketplace?(github.com)
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by brighton36 15y ago
Does anyone know where the data came from? How it was collected?
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by brighton36 15y ago
If we were to clamp down on the Credit-card based revenue streams, these sites will simply switch to Bincoin... (Which is fine with me, FWIW)
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by brighton36 15y ago
If we were to clamp down on the Credit-card based revenue streams, that these sites will simply switch to Bincoin... (Which is fine with me, FWIW)
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by brighton36 16y ago
I may regret posting this .... But this is what you probably want to do: user@host:/path/to/EssentialMixRip09.04.10$ wget -rl 0 -np -A .mp3 http://thenine.ca/essential/
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by brighton36 17y ago
This site will likely either get down down for TOS violations - or its spidering IP will get blocked by craigslist. If anyone on hackernews wants a (more powerful) ruby program/lib to do this exact thing (with multi-city amd regex search s