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by corford 13y ago
I've been using http://www.kraken.com of late and it's been great - no problem wiring money to/from my bank account, easy to convert between LTC and BTC and market orders close immediately. I've only been tra
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by corford 13y ago
Hey toots. It's difficult to ping you without an email address (your HN email addy isn't made public by default)... :)
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by corford 13y ago
I've tried and failed to come up with a single explanation for why this might be a good idea (from a security point of view and also from a "is this really the best thing you can do with your time if you're going to be in Dam
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by corford 13y ago
Hey neilk. Just wanted to let you know you're not alone. I could copy everything you've just said word for word and it would line up almost exactly with how 2013's been for me (you're not working on an aviation related t
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by corford 13y ago
True. Although micro payments/donations are more complicated: try donating the USD equivalent of 0.0001BTC using a credit/debit card. Also, paying a supplier with BTC means you don't need to worry about them being hacked and
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by corford 13y ago
Buying domains (namecheap.com), vpn services (privateinternetaccess.com), hosting (bitvps.com), donating to the EFF, buying a ticket on Virgin Galactic, sending money to someone else where doing an international bank transfer would be too e
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by corford 13y ago
I'm using it now for a project that's due to go live early next year and so far it's been a dream. Case in point, I ran in to a bug on Monday and it turned out to be with engine.io itself rather than Primus. The workaround wa
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by corford 13y ago
Thanks Kevin (just followed you on twitter btw). The negative signal is what I'm worried about. In your experience, do you think I have a chance of successfully counter balancing that with the fact that I've already committed a la
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by corford 13y ago
Also, commitment wise, I've already plowed close to USD $70K in to this of my own money and I'll have a fully functioning MVP up and running in January (which will be before I start talking to a seed fund). So I think it's fa
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by corford 13y ago
Thanks. So I guess it can be done under the right circumstances. >What matters most is: are you guys getting shit done? Shit is most definitely getting done. A fully functioning MVP will be up and running in January and my co-founder is
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by corford 13y ago
I was hoping for a few replies as well as I'm really struggling to find anyone in a similar position that's gone through it. To answer your question, yes, I'm full time and have been working on it for almost 18 months. Bootst
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Ask HN: Does my co-founder need to quit his job before we seek seed money?
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by corford 13y ago
Andrei Alexandrescu did a reddit IAMA recently (with Walter Bright contributing) and if you read through the posts I think you'll come away with the impression that D is very much here to stay (I certainly did anyway). http:/&#x2
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by corford 13y ago
There's a very useful mining profitability calculator here: http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/ If you plug the numbers in you'll see that to all intent and purposes, private mining for BTC is now useless unless yo
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by corford 13y ago
"No, I'm not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a t
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by corford 13y ago
People laugh at me for still using winamp but I love it. It's fast, low memory, never crashes and the ui hasn't significantly changed for well over a decade. More than that, it's one of the few pieces of software I still use
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by corford 13y ago
A friend of mine setup a bitstamp.net account last week and it was fairly quick and easy. Took just under 3 days from clicking signup and sending over ID docs to being able to trade.
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by corford 13y ago
Sorry, I was wondering more about the VAT issue alluded to in the blog.
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by corford 13y ago
Isn't bitstamp a UK incorporated company?
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by corford 13y ago
Thanks Chuck for the thoughtful reply. If anything, I think I need to direct my negativity towards the public stocks and shares system as whole (i.e. it just appears to boil down to a numbers and sentiment game that doesn't seem to be
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by corford 13y ago
Ahh now that's the sort of info I was hoping someone would reply with. So the shares that made up the IPO offering came from newly issued stock, not from existing share holders? That makes it all a bit less cynical to me since all it m
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by corford 13y ago
Fair point
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by corford 13y ago
I find it hard to accept that a rational person thinks twitter will ever have the profit earning capability of Google. It just seems nuts to me to justify twitter's future earnings potential on a black swan event. Speculation on the ot
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by corford 13y ago
So in effect it's just one giant speculation game that everyone's in on and the only trick is not to be left holding shares when the hype stops? I guess I'm fine with that as long as everyone playing knows the rules (although
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by corford 13y ago
Can someone with more clue please tell me that the following cynical thought I keep having is wrong and laughably misinformed (and then explain why)? Twitter's investors (who have plowed hundreds of millions in to a loss making company
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by corford 13y ago
In a sane world I don't think there will be enough of them to stem the losses and deliver a solid return on an IPO that values the company in the double digit billions. Happy to be wrong but only time will tell.
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by corford 13y ago
That's all fine and dandy but the proof of the pudding lies in a successful monetization strategy. From where I'm sitting, I just can't see how they're ever going to convince enough people to pony up (directly or indirec
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by corford 13y ago
>One of the best things I've ever done for myself is pack up and move to another country. Having done this 4 times now, I can't tell you how true this is (as is the rest of fit2rule's post). To anyone thinking about it, fi
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by corford 13y ago
They're $170 with Namecheap
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by corford 13y ago
A tidied up and finished off version is here, in case it's useful to anyone: https://gist.github.com/corford/6697919

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