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by ccamrobertson 2y ago
Good question. We’ve spoken to a lot of people who have done this, and more often than not the recipient in the midst of some life event doesn’t imbue a QR code with value (and loses it/throws it away).
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by ccamrobertson 2y ago
Burner comes with a pre-generated key or you can request that it generate a new key with entropy you supply (in part, it's hashed with entropy from multiple sources). In both cases you always need to trust the hardware, but this is tru
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by ccamrobertson 2y ago
We considered this, but thus far I’ve only had someone ask me if I’m a Burning Man participant after seeing the logo.
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by ccamrobertson 2y ago
Not opposed to doing a Solana variant!
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by ccamrobertson 2y ago
You can just gift ETH. And good news, as a stablecoin backed by dollars USD II is pegged to the dollar so no “pumping” or “dumping”.
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by ccamrobertson 2y ago
There is a massive trillion dollar market around gifting dollars on gift cards today, but you can typically only use them on Visa and Mastercard networks. We think gifting stablecoins is a better way to do that.
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by ccamrobertson 2y ago
The same reason one would use any other stablecoin like USDC, you want to send dollars to someone. The added benefit is that you don’t need to be worried about sending ETH as well to use USD II. Put another way, if I gift you a Ledger with
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by ccamrobertson 2y ago
You can! We just don’t feature it in the gift card “optimized” mode since we do not subsidize the gas costs for existing stablecoins.
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by ccamrobertson 2y ago
Hmm, thanks for the report. I use uBlock origin as well but I might have it in some more permissive state...
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Show HN: Burner – A low cost wallet to gift crypto(burner.pro)
49 points by ccamrobertson 2y ago|37 comments
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by ccamrobertson 2y ago
Congrats, always cool to see YC founders working on silicon!
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by ccamrobertson 2y ago
I preferred Weird Stuff, but we still used Halted for same-day popcorn supplies we needed in 2013-2014. The day Weird Stuff closed was the day "old" Silicon Valley died for me. Despite not being a surplus store, I would add Frys t
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by ccamrobertson 2y ago
Odd commentary given that returns of Bitcoin are phenomenal if you bought in most periods since 2018 except for the previous all time high. > Why would anyone want to buy Bitcoin or own it unless they are hiding money for criminal purp
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A journalist goes undercover to reveal the absurdity of the art scene(msn.com)
36 points by ccamrobertson 3y ago|35 comments
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by ccamrobertson 3y ago
We rented the Byte Shop building as an office from 2013-2016. After the Byte Shop left the space, it became what Steve Jobs affectionately referred to as an "adult bookstore" for the next thirty or so years until we leased it for
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by ccamrobertson 3y ago
> I’m sure the founder realized early on that the prospects of this becoming a valuable company on its own merits were slim If you actually knew Eric and the history of Beeper you would understand how hilariously false, absurd and revisi
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by ccamrobertson 3y ago
No, to castigate the effort is precisely helpful in a case where it results in a gross violation of privacy — potentially even impact constitutional rights directly. The entire point of this article is that other news sources and “fact chec
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by ccamrobertson 3y ago
MacRumors should at least link to their own article from 2011 talking about the actual MacBook Pro prototype that was discovered in 2011 ("Tyco"): https://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/14/photos-of-a-p
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by ccamrobertson 3y ago
I do because I despise the idea of iCloud, but I’m also completely happy to pay more for USB 3.0. It’s like the new MacBook Pros — ample ports (again), which for my uses are worth paying for.
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by ccamrobertson 3y ago
I love this because it's exactly the thing that an enraged engineer who is stuck in the last row waiting to get off a plane would create -- just a little naive given airline incentives, couples, families and the limits of human patienc
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by ccamrobertson 3y ago
“ the growing waste production catastrophe.” Or maybe waste production isn’t a “catastrophe” and reuse should be dependent on economic rationale rather than virtue signaling.
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by ccamrobertson 3y ago
I would love this for low cost land plots (sub $50k). I see a lot of people listing land like this on Facebook Marketplace; feels like this platform could be ideal for that.
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by ccamrobertson 3y ago
We just bought a 2023 6-speed Crosstrek and it’s amazing. Also, fewer (color) screens because it’s practically the base. Sadly the last year one can get it as a manual.
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by ccamrobertson 4y ago
Congratulations on the launch! Would it be possible to combine both a ducted system with a mini-split style head unit? Our ducting is old, undersized and with poorly located returns.
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by ccamrobertson 4y ago
The paper leaf bag ban is the worst part. Not looking forward to fall 2023.
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by ccamrobertson 4y ago
For a new car with a warranty, that makes sense. For the anywho who works on their own car, automatics are an incredible pain. Most failure modes are catastrophic and require a full rebuild as all components are integrated. Coolant lines th
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by ccamrobertson 4y ago
Which private prison (or adjacent) company has 8vc invested in?
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by ccamrobertson 4y ago
> What a wild and weird concept. I'd love to see more art projects like this. Yes. This is a fascinating experiment; I would love to see the code to understand if it approaches a true "decentralized autonomous organization&quot
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by ccamrobertson 4y ago
Yes, that makes more sense, I was mischaracterizing it. 1-of-1 is more appropriate (although the notion of a 1-of-1 multisig is a little odd at face value until one digs in).
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by ccamrobertson 4y ago
Thank you, always great to get praise from another hardware founder :)

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