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by kirian 14y ago
I think you are mixing up Guy Kawasaki (The Art of the Start and other books like the ones given away free here) with Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad)
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Arduino, 3D Printers, Kickstarter, and BitCoin(avc.com)
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by kirian 14y ago
Also accept payments from any where in the world, lower fees, financial privacy, open protocol allowing open competition. Many, many positives, not just illicit reasons.
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by kirian 14y ago
Some good "Why To Accept Bitcoin" reasons in this article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/11/16/whats-your...
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by kirian 14y ago
Yes, I agree with the above comment, "Pay using bitcoin" or "Send bitcoins" or something like that would be less confusing I think.
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by kirian 14y ago
For US users Coinbase is one of the easiest ways to buy bitcoins. Link your bank account like you would with paypal and it's straightforward from there on.
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by kirian 14y ago
Bitcoin merchant services sector is really heating up. Bitpay.com making big news with the recent Wordpress announcement, Walletbit ( http://bitcoinmagazine.net/walletbit-launches-bank-transfers... ) growing and adding more features and now
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by kirian 14y ago
Honest question, are there any well known start-ups that have come out of the Start-Up Chile program?
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by kirian 14y ago
Most transactions don't need a fee and even those that do will be relayed eventually even with no fee (currently). See this Stack Exchange answer for some more details: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/4483/61
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by kirian 14y ago
Some people also wanted to make sure that their particular transaction was included in this block for posterity. Paying a fee increases the priority ( https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vocabulary ) of the transaction to make it more likely to be i
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by kirian 14y ago
Great job. The pace of adding new features has been impressive. I think Blockchain.info is the best online bitcoin wallet .
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by kirian 14y ago
There are services (e.g. Bitpay) which remove the currency risk for the seller. The seller can set their price in US $ or whatever and receive the payment in that currency while the purchaser has the option to pay in bitcoins at the going r
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by kirian 14y ago
In theory yes but not really in practice. The market is not nearly as integrated as the US market, still regulatory differences, language differences, cultural differences.
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by kirian 14y ago
Probably easier to recruit someone already inside Google than train a computer scientist spy and hope they manage to get hired by Google.
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by kirian 14y ago
Domestic market size is also a huge factor. The market in Ireland and indeed many other countries is simply too small for a startup like Stripe to be viable. It would have to target international markets/the US from the get go with all the
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by kirian 14y ago
See this report on Apple's CapEx spending in the last quarter: http://www.asymco.com/2012/10/31/hey-big-spender/ It's seen a big spike up and is ~ 30% more than Intel's $2.6 billion/quarter. And it spent three times in Q3 than Google, 4.8
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by kirian 14y ago
Anybody else reminded of The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson?
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by kirian 14y ago
"in the dock" is an idiom meaning to be put on trial.
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by kirian 14y ago
SSDs can go kaput too, you still need to backup.
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by kirian 14y ago
You can prove you were the owner of the spent coins to the police if you wish but this doesn't allow the data mining company to know all of your financial history.
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by kirian 14y ago
That is incorrect, you can prove that you are the owner of the private key that spent the bitcoins if you wish. Anyway this seems like a silly argument, with physical cash how can you prove that you paid X with that cash like in the scenari
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by kirian 14y ago
I don't really get what you are trying to say, why is a bitcoin transaction the same as a theft? A bitcoin transaction is the digital equivalent of a cash transaction, you can keep your financial privacy so that all your transactions are n
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by kirian 14y ago
This is why I think something like Bitcoin is so vital. As physical cash is more and more being replaced by digital money the ability to have financial privacy is imperative. Think about all the data mining that would be possible if your ev
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by kirian 14y ago
The hacker should accept bitcoins for the exploit and save the commission fee and maintain better anonymity. Also the buyer could stay anonymous too.
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by kirian 15y ago
Had to read this comment before realizing there more to the page by scrolling down.
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by kirian 15y ago
One of the features of the next release of the bitcoin protocol is to allow things like multi-factor authentication (e.g. require a signature from the private key on your computer and your mobile phone before the bitcoins can be spent)
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by kirian 15y ago
I found this digital book to be an excellent resource http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005DC68NI you can get a free pdf version at the authors blog http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/lets-get-digital/