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by deftnerd 12y ago
My next site is one that lets people who use any one of 160+ mobile phone carriers pay their bills or recharge their prepaid phones with Bitcoin. I've already found a company that does most of the heavy lifting and has already secured
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by deftnerd 12y ago
https://steamloader.com I sell Steam Wallet Codes (gift cards) for Bitcoin. I've done over 1500 BTC in sales in the last year and make about 5% profit, depending on the current BTC/USD exchange rate. I started the site
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by deftnerd 12y ago
This would be good for api's like chain.com that let you publish a raw transaction. Using this you can generate a transaction and push it to an API to avoid having to keep a whole bitcoin node there.
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by deftnerd 12y ago
Set up the site so all the database transactions take place in memcache or redis and every 10 minutes it's written into encrypted entries on some kind of distributed blockchain (Datacoin, Namecoin, etc). Use Docker to wrap up the fron
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by deftnerd 12y ago
Contraband that is not in-and-of-itself illegal is routinely sold at police auctions to the public. I'm not entirely sure what happens with the proceeds of those auctions. I'm pretty sure they go to the local police department in
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by deftnerd 12y ago
A description of the relationship between Pulse and Syncthing is here: https://discourse.syncthing.net/t/introducing-pulse-and-ind-... It appears to be a valid rebranding of the project from the developers, who are int
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by deftnerd 12y ago
Pulse is either a rebranding or a fork of Syncthing. I'm not quite sure yet. I just implemented Syncthing on a cluster of front-end web servers. I know best practice would be using hooks to make all my web servers update from a Git rep
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Great idea. I think this is important for the Bitcoin developer space. I see the prices, which are very reasonable, but I'm a bit surprised that they're not in BTC. Also, are the study guides included in those prices and are they
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by deftnerd 12y ago
I missed the previous posts about Sandstorm and I'm glad this was posted. It's a very interesting technology and the team behind it is very talented. A few of the projects I'm working on involve hosting applications for many
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Ask HN: Postal Receive API
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A lot of people are also upset because they signed up for the beta paid a $15 fee with the promise that there wouldn't be any additional fees. 2 days ago, they decided to institute a $5 a month account fee.
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by deftnerd 12y ago
I've founded a startup that might be able to provide some help in this space. It's basically a mix of being an OpenID Connect provider that does authenticity checks on any information that users provide and makes the results of th
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by deftnerd 12y ago
You can reach Facebook over IPv6 at https://www.v6.facebook.com Interestingly enough, last week when they had their 45 minute outage worldwide with some kind of routing problem, it was still up and running on that address
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by deftnerd 12y ago
Nice to see an admin panel that doesn't require PHP or Apache/Nginx installed. I'll take this for a spin. Requirements: https://github.com/Eugeny/ajenti/blob/master/requirements.tx... I s
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by deftnerd 12y ago
I remember using Toneloc during that time to wardial entire exchanges looking for dialup modems into servers. I wonder how many people I annoyed with getting phone calls in the middle of the night with my 14.4 modem screeching in their ear.
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by deftnerd 12y ago
I'm writing a system for my OpenID provider servicewith background checks (blockauth.com - BitAngels.co backed project launching in 20 days) that has to store a lot of data in a decentralized system. Since MaidSafe and all the others d
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by deftnerd 12y ago
It's stories like these that's inspired me to start up a new project at oppressed.me. I'm trying to compile a list of hackers and hacktivists that have been imprisoned in order to let the internet easily send them corresponde
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by deftnerd 12y ago
I'm not a Justin.tv user, but it frustrates me when organizations make big decisions like this without much time for their users to react. I can only assume that they're bleeding money and they're trying to quickly cut their
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by deftnerd 12y ago
I wonder how all these pieces of plastic in the ice will affect its melting temperature and it's strength. There is a good research paper there with data that could affect estimates on freeze and melt rates of winter ice, formulas used
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I thought that What3Words.com had a clever solution to this problem but they just didn't seem to get any traction. They simply sliced the planet into billions (trillions?) of pieces geographically and assigned 3 words to each square me
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It seems that security through obscurity has worked for them for millions of years!
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Apple has a lot of money offshore that they can't bring back to the US without substantial taxes being paid. If they acquire foreign companies, isn't that a great way to launder the money? The companies can continue to reside over
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by deftnerd 12y ago
I mostly agree. There is one use case I've seen and that's taking fast photos when you can't fumble with a phone. When I'm driving around, I always notice things that I would love to report to the city or code enforcemen
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by deftnerd 12y ago
I'm working on this problem right now at blockauth.com. Launch is still months away but its an interesting mix of Blockchain publishing, ICANN style franchising, and paranoid levels of verification. The end result will be a federation
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This makes me think of the HN link yesterday about identifying businesses that are doomed to fail because the only way they can sustain themselves is moving into new markets. If Google keeps on banning publishers from hosting AdSense ads in
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by deftnerd 12y ago
I never understood why Amazon doesn't just get into the drive-through market. As a consumer with children, it's a major hassle to go to the grocery store with my kids in tow. It's also unacceptable to wait 2 days to get what
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by deftnerd 12y ago
I signed up for your newsletter. I might not be the typical user, but since you're trying to embrace an international market, you might want to add support for Bitcoin as a currency. I see that this is a service that helps you create a
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by deftnerd 12y ago
Looks like a good lineup of apps you've developed. Good luck. Sadly, I'm not one of your target market since I'm a linux geek. Curious, who or what software stack are you using for the order processing for BTC, LTC, and Doge?
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by deftnerd 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand. This doesn't appear to be a $200 laser cutter, it's just a $200 laser that can cut through some materials that you strap to the head of an existing CNC machine or 3D printer. That's an OK produ
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I like this idea more and more as I see it. One note, the text on the "Add New Photo" link says "Please not that "... That should be "note" not "not". Additionally, the section after the email instruc

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