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by gst 13y ago
The Bitcoin foundation does neither exchange or trade Bitcoins, nor does it release any Bitcoin client. Its only mission is to "standardize, protect and promote" the use of Bitcoin. Charging the Bitcoin foundations for violations
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by gst 13y ago
> It's not my business to report anything to anyone Actually it is. If you're in a Common Law legislation there's a good chance the you could be charged with conspiracy. And if you're in a Civil Law legislation there
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by gst 13y ago
How is this compatible with European privacy laws? Wouldn't this mean European customers would be able to sue those companies over violation of this laws?
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by gst 13y ago
So what do you say to the fact that for the first three "Freicoin years" 80% of the mined coins are transferred to the "Freicoin foundation"? From what I've heard about Freicoin so far it's about at the same scam level as all of those pre-m
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by gst 14y ago
The #bitcoin IRC channel on freenode has a bot command/script that tells you how you will influence the total price if you sell a given amount of coins.
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by gst 14y ago
Freicoin is a scam. If you mine Freicoins 80% of the mined coins are automatically transferred to the "Freicoin Foundation" (see e.g. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134629.0 ). A real demurrage might be an interesting concept, but
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by gst 14y ago
I'm originally from Vienna (now living in SF) and I wouldn't really recommend to live there. The Viennese people all praise how well there city works, but if you've lived in another place for a while you quickly notice all the things going
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by gst 14y ago
Trusting whois data isn't a good idea. With most registrars you can write into those fields whatever you want. Just because a domain tells you it belongs to someone, doesn't actually mean that it belongs to this person.
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by gst 14y ago
Downloading from mega failed for me with an "encryption error". So using Bittorrent seems to be the better option here anyway.
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by gst 14y ago
The download using Mega looks interesting. Seems that it is using the HTML5 FileSystem API to first download the file to a temporary location, without even showing a browser download dialog to the user. Someone created a thread on stackover
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by gst 14y ago
Why would anybody who doesn't know how Git works would want to use GitHub?
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by gst 14y ago
For that amount of Bitcoins you can buy a house nowadays.
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by gst 14y ago
Totally agree. Email works perfectly fine for me. For private purposes as well as for my job. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I don't see anything that's broken or that would require fixing.
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by gst 14y ago
"You can sign the petition here. So far, 6,000 people have done so," 6000 people? The more appropriate subject here would be "Most users don't care about Java bloatware".
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by gst 14y ago
Your last paragraph on the link says it all: "BitTorrent is technologically complicated, infrastructure-wise inefficient, much less usable than a regular Web download, etc. But it got popular anyway, mostly because of unreasonable greed and
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by gst 14y ago
The costs are neglible now, but based on how Bitcoin works (shared transaction list) it seems likely that the costs will rise in the future: 1) Currently there's a transaction size limit of 1 MB in the protocol, with typical "large" transac
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by gst 14y ago
"Each participating Class Member who submits a valid and timely claim form may be eligible to receive up to $10." I got one of those mails to, but for $10 filling out the form is way too much effort.
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by gst 14y ago
So you trust an anonymous individual that does not need to abide to any laws more than a commercial company located in the US (or another country)? I wouldn't expect any privacy at all when using tormail.org. If you want to have secure comm
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by gst 14y ago
Did you even read the article? This has nothing to do with the EU. The US can obtain data from persons that are not US citizens without a warrant, if this data is stored on servers of US companies. If the EU doesn't agree with this, it woul
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by gst 14y ago
As far as I understand the situation, in the past credit card surcharges were prohibited by law. So credit card companies and merchants will have more freedom in regards to their arrangements now. Credit card companies can still have a cont
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by gst 14y ago
In most (all?) European countries VAT is included in the sticker prices. If the price on the sticker says €5 you also pay exactly €5 for it.
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by gst 14y ago
Actually if you pay with credit card you often don't have to pay the full fees, as with many credit cards a part of those fees is given back to you as reward points or cashback. So customers paying cash are essentially paying a higher perce
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by gst 14y ago
This is a good thing. Currently the credit card companies can basically charge whatever fees they like because (1) the customers who choose a card don't see the merchant fees (2) most shops can't afford to not offer credit card payments. By
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by gst 14y ago
Lots of Bitcoin businesses are online services. If US businesses are banned from offering Bitcoin services, this will just bring more customers to services operated in other countries.
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by gst 14y ago
So if this happens. Why not just buy unlocked phones directly then, instead of buying them from the provider?
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by gst 14y ago
I just wanted to post a similar comment. Yes - the US might outlaw Bitcoin in its own jurisdiction. But there's a considerable amount of trade going on in other jurisdictions (see http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/volumepie/ ). If Bitcoin is
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by gst 14y ago
Yes - with your account number someone could theoretically drain your account using direct debit. In practice that never happens (and most people don't keep their account number a secret). In addition, even if it would happen you have more
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by gst 14y ago
So what is France going to do with Internet companies that don't have any offices in France (and that just ignore this tax)? Just block their websites?
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by gst 14y ago
And in a few years from now they will be complaining again that Google is "blocking" their browsers, by not supporting their standards.
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by gst 14y ago
After the Rails exploit was announced I was jokingly mentioning to a friend that this will hit a few Bitcoin exchanges. Seems there are still exchange operators that haven't learned anything about the previous exploits.

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