grubles

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   by grubles 11y ago

   Write an article on medium.com and ask!
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   by grubles 11y ago

   I hate to be this way but I assume SF is like the show Silicon Valley. I've lived in LA and loved all the street performers. In fact, seeing so many of them has inspired me to take that leap into making my creativity public. Some peop
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   by grubles 11y ago

   Me too! I thank the fact I played basketball since I was in 3rd grade.
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   by grubles 11y ago

   There are already links to child porn in the blockchain.
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   by grubles 12y ago

   It's rainy here in central Florida but hopefully I can see it outside. What was fun was seeing the night launch they did a few weeks ago. That one was very easy to spot in the sky.
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   by grubles 12y ago

   That is just a really skinny arm. Here is how it looks on someone ~160lbs (like myself): http://imgur.com/Cejo1rl.jpg
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   by grubles 12y ago

   *toxin bad! Click-bait title good!
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   by grubles 12y ago

   vultr.com accepts bitcoin.
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   by grubles 12y ago

   No vultr, huh. :/
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    by grubles 12y ago

    Isn't that almost exactly what Make School is? That seemed to garner a lot of praise from HN readers.
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    by grubles 12y ago

    Multisignature transactions solve the "annnd it's gone" due to hacked merchants/exchanges. The rate may be 3 times higher but bitcoin is almost 1/8th as old as the credit card system. Losing $18 billion a year is no
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    by grubles 12y ago

    I'm not saying bitcoin is practical as money. I'm saying it is practical as a payment system, if anything. Just look at the gigantic $100,000,000 bitcoin transactions that happen and only pay a $0.20 or so fee. Besides that, bitco
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    by grubles 12y ago

    The KYC system is the exchange's, not bitcoin's. It's similar to blaming TCP/IP because a website requires you to use a password to log in.
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    by grubles 12y ago

    >>This all assumes the exchange will even do business with them following their extensive KYC checks....I've never had a bank require...a passport.. One can deduce from the context that a passport is required to use bitcoin. It&#
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    by grubles 12y ago

    One comedian put it this way: You can't fix stupid. Point being: Learning is a lifelong pursuit, and if you don't want to learn then you will be left behind using Facebook Messenger to send money. Kidding, but you hopefully get
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    by grubles 12y ago

    The difference with bitcoin is that the protection is up to you . Same as with holding cash or precious metal in a safe at home. Except with bitcoin, you have m-of-n signatures, encrypted wallets, brain-wallets even. You can backup your en
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    by grubles 12y ago

    You don't see the problem here do you? 13.1 million people were defrauded because they used a credit card. $18 Billion were lost as a result. Losses due to bitcoin are peanuts in comparison.
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    by grubles 12y ago

    You brought up having to present a passport as if it were a requirement to using bitcoin, which it is not. Again, you were spreading FUD.
19. 289.▲
    by grubles 12y ago

    Except you weren't patronizing an establishment. You were spreading FUD.
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    by grubles 12y ago

    I think we need to kill the "bitcoin requires a passport" myth as well. I have used bitcoin for 4 years and have never had to present a passport for anything.
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    by grubles 12y ago

    Where is this magical land where a company can't be held liable for losses because they accept bitcoin?
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    by grubles 12y ago

    >13.1 million identity-theft cases were reported in 2013, resulting $18 billion in losses. from https://www.javelinstrategy.com/uploads/web_brochure/1405.R_...
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    by grubles 12y ago

    >Not to mention the fact that the recipient needs a bank account anyway if they want to convert their bitcoin into something that they can actually spend outside of the dark web. I guess you've never read https://en.bitco
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    by grubles 12y ago

    The hard part about using a credit card is trusting the merchant to be perfectly secure.
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    by grubles 12y ago

    Incompetence is payment-system-agnostic: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-03-13/target-misse...
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    by grubles 12y ago

    So that is 2 requirements for bitcoin versus 5 requirements for sending via facebook: bank acct, debit/credit card, email acct, facebook acct, facebook messenger (let's not forget the immense amount of personal information you wi
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    by grubles 12y ago

    So you think bitcoin is harder than: 1. Learning how to open a bank account (requires tons of personal information) 2. Learning how and why to use a debit/credit card (insecure) 3. Signing up for (requires e-mail) facebook and tying yo
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    by grubles 12y ago

    The points are that you don't need 1. a bank account 2. a debit/credit card 3. facebook messenger in order to send money instantly.
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    by grubles 12y ago

    My 70 year old dad can use bitcoin. I'm sure your friends can learn.
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    by grubles 12y ago

    Instead, let's be dumbfucks[0] and use Facebook to send money! [0] http://www.businessinsider.com/embarrassing-and-damaging-zuc...