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by dustcoin 13y ago
Shrem was not arrested for running Bitinstant. He was arrested for allegedly going behind his bank and cofounder's backs to advise a known BTC dealer on Silkroad on how to skirt Bitinstant's AML policies.
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by dustcoin 13y ago
It is worth noting that while Kiva is a non-profit, the loans go through potentially for-profit middlemen who may charge very high interest rates. Additionally, money is actually sent to borrowers before their story is even posted to Kiva.
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Alleged Top Moderators Of Silk Road 2 Forums Arrested In Ireland and U.S(techcrunch.com)
1 points by dustcoin 13y ago|0 comments
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by dustcoin 13y ago
They are charging $10 shipping per device, even when multiple units are ordered at once, so it is essentially a $48 tablet, a 26% increase.
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by dustcoin 13y ago
What are the SteamOS Hardware Requirements? ... Hard Drive: 500GB or larger disk Default Installation ... The image provided here requires at least a 1TB disk. It is odd that they are publishing the
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by dustcoin 13y ago
I was expecting something along the lines of this data: http://www.payscale.com/college-education-value-2013 College continues to provide good value to anyone who anyone who is careful selecting a school and major.
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by dustcoin 13y ago
Minor correction: Trading frequently requires a minimum of $25k https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_day_trader
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by dustcoin 13y ago
What you are describing sounds like https://www.car2go.com , which is available in some US cities.
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Open Letter to Peter Schiff (Bitcoin's Value)(np.reddit.com)
2 points by dustcoin 13y ago|1 comments
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by dustcoin 13y ago
I could see this service being very useful to Silkroad buyers as it avoids giving a home address to drug dealers. If paid for anonymously, it would also make the buyer more difficult for law enforcement to track than someone who sends pack
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by dustcoin 13y ago
Some of these addresses are cold storage addresses controlled by businesses that are holding BTC for a large number of individual customers. Some of the richest holders own multiple top addresses.
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by dustcoin 13y ago
It appears that bitcoin, a payment option for the bundles, is missing as a payment option for the store.
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by dustcoin 13y ago
A guy in Seattle ordered an ATM from https://lamassu.is/ a while ago and hopes to set it up in a local business when it arrives. Unlike the machine in the article, the Lamassu ATMs only accept cash and dispense BTC.
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by dustcoin 13y ago
The mic/speaker assembly are in the middle of the window but the window has substantial size relative to the dimensions of the room and the distance the listener is from the device. For what it's worth, the p
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by dustcoin 13y ago
No one talks about it because the cost is negligible. Running a 1.5kW stovetop full blast for an hour costs 19 cents at the average electricity price in the US.
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Alleged Silk Road Creator's New Lawyer Defended Guantanamo Detainee, NSA Target(forbes.com)
1 points by dustcoin 13y ago|0 comments
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by dustcoin 13y ago
The truth is very likely to be much closer to what Wall Street thinks than what D.C. thinks. Traders and investors are incentivized to assess risk correctly and make good bets, while Congress is incentivized to engage in brinkmanship and ma
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by dustcoin 13y ago
The complaint notes that these amounts don’t count sales going back more than five months prior to the investigation The volume estimated is only for a 5 month period, not the defendants' entire careers. Drug dealers hav
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Bitcointalk.org hacked, 50 BTC reward offered for analysis of attack(reddit.com)
4 points by dustcoin 13y ago|0 comments
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by dustcoin 13y ago
Given the 2% annual fee and the statement: Safely storing large quantities of bitcoin can be technically challenging and puts the owner at risk of being hacked. The BIT utilizes state of the art security protocols to store
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Bitcoin Investment Trust(bitcointrust.co)
4 points by dustcoin 13y ago|1 comments
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by dustcoin 13y ago
From the GP: Maternity Leave - The good news is that this covers maternity leave of 3 months for our lady employees. This is a nice benefit to offer. It also explains the higher rates based on gender. Maternity leave is much more
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by dustcoin 13y ago
The company did not start out trading MtG cards. Mtgox's founder launched mtgox using a domain name that he once used for a MtG site. The founder then sold the company to Mark Karpeles, the current owner.
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by dustcoin 13y ago
Most end users can use a SPV (Simple Payment Verification, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Thin_Client_Security#Simplified_P... ) based client like Multibit ( https://multibit.org )
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by dustcoin 13y ago
>You mean create a fake account? Isn't that against TOS? FB allows the creation of test accounts for security research https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/accounts/
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by dustcoin 13y ago
Most of the PPT operators promoted and profited off of pirate's scam, and should face legal action alongside pirate. PPT operators did not have an incentive to go after pirate, unless they had also invested significant personal holding
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by dustcoin 13y ago
pirateat40's other service, GPUMAX, was effectively a mixing service. GPUMAX paid above market rates for hashing power, which gave the operator freshly minted coins in exchange for dirty coins distributed to miners.
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Bitcoin Foundation's Response to California Cease & Desist(scribd.com)
116 points by dustcoin 13y ago|30 comments
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by dustcoin 13y ago
> one-time chalk-on-sidewalk "incident" It was 13 separate incidents over the course of 6 months. This is how the ridiculous 13 year sentence was derived, as the maximum penalty for each count of vandalism is 1 year.
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by dustcoin 13y ago
The Bitcoin Foundation recently organized a large bitcoin conference in California. http://www.bitcoin2013.com/

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