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by cjg 14y ago
I think you are projecting your extensive experience with the review system onto the everyday buyer. eBay asked the shopper to review her transaction: overall her experience was negative (not enough postage) so she gave a negative review.
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by cjg 14y ago
Why is this comment exactly the same as the one posted by jeremyjh to the OP two hours before yours.
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by cjg 14y ago
You get new bitcoins by creating a new block in the block chain (mining). If there are no other transactions in the block that's fine. The first block is known as the Genesis block. You might find this useful: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Ge
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by cjg 14y ago
"Widely accepted" isn't a binary value. As adoption increases bitcoins gain value. That's what justifies the price. The problem is deciding just how much adoption implies how much value.
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by cjg 14y ago
It makes it harder to accumulate wealth. This may or may not be a good thing depending on your point of view. Taken to an extreme, it's move back to hunter-gather societies when you had to work every day - no stored capital.
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by cjg 14y ago
The barrier to entry is in gaining the adoption.
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by cjg 14y ago
I imagine this will happen via Payment Service Providers first. Merchants that don't want to manage their own payment code outsource it to some third party company. Those PSPs compete and one dimension they compete on is breadth of payment
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by cjg 14y ago
Would you care to explain why?
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by cjg 14y ago
Which provides an interesting way to value BTC. If the total value goes much over the cost of a 51% attack then it is overvalued.
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by cjg 14y ago
The proof of work is proportional to the length of the message, so it is computationally difficult to send such long messages.
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Vow of Now(vowofnow.com)
1 points by cjg 14y ago|0 comments
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Foundations and applications for secure triggers(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
1 points by cjg 14y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 14y ago
It's an MVP. No point in writing all that validation code just yet - most people understand that you actually have to fill the fields in.
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by cjg 14y ago
I can image PayPal or some other payment services provider deciding to integrate it as a payment method.
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by cjg 14y ago
It would depend on how frequently you invested and the offset. For example, monthly on the 23rd of the month would give you one return, whereas weekly on a Tuesday would give you another. But given that 1 BTC is ~ 20 USD at the moment and t
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Tails - Privacy for anyone anywhere(tails.boum.org)
2 points by cjg 14y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 14y ago
You are both kind of right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number#...
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by cjg 14y ago
Your argument that it wouldn't be available on other boxes can be applied against any new command, no matter how fantastic, so it doesn't seem very constructive to me.
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by cjg 14y ago
You don't generally need a new law to pay for a bridge, just vote on the legislature.
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by cjg 14y ago
The same idea is proposed here: http://www.jadeleaf.co.uk/voting-is-bad
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by cjg 14y ago
The example given doesn't address CRSF. Does anyone know if the API can prevent them?
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by cjg 14y ago
Something that many of these answers fail to address is that a 256-bit key isn't big enough, if you can do 2^128 computations. This is due to the probability of key collision. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack Not that I'm
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by cjg 14y ago
Sure, I can relate to that. In the early eighties computer magazines had huge listings of code which I dutifully typed in. They never worked worked first time as I'd invariably mistyped various characters, but the subsequent bug finding tau
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by cjg 14y ago
How about a single unconstrained text area? Do you really need to break the address up into lots of little bits? If so, why? Because you have different costs / taxes for different states / countries? Fine, have separate fields for those, bu
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How a massive marketing campaign can drive new customers(nowiknow.com)
2 points by cjg 14y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 14y ago
RMS doesn't care if Canonical make any money.
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by cjg 14y ago
Absolutely it is possible, the smaller the difference in timing, the more measurements you need, but statistics is a powerful tool.
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by cjg 14y ago
I've heard this said many times before and I agree. However, using crypto libraries does not solve the problem of vulnerabilities through cryptography misuse. For example, keys must be stored correctly, algorithms often need initialising in
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by cjg 15y ago
What I found most incredible was that the shirt cost them just under $30 to produce, but would ultimately sell for $155 and this was considered a standard markup.
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TVShack admin fights extradition to US on piracy charges(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by cjg 15y ago|0 comments

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