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by marcell 13y ago
Do you remember where you saw this?
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by marcell 13y ago
<script type="text/javascript"> var x = 1 + 2; </script> Is this "beyond what is authorized"? What was authorized to begin with?
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by marcell 13y ago
As far as I can tell, the author does not work for Google, and moreover the article makes no mention of Google aside from the headline.
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Show HN: Coinwall, a bitcoin powered, no-registration paywall(coinwall.co)
1 points by marcell 13y ago|0 comments
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by marcell 13y ago
Curious--how/who will solve this problem?
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by marcell 13y ago
The blockchain has timestamps, so actually you can verify quite easily. Unless, for some reason, the individual is sending bitcoins to himself...
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by marcell 13y ago
The article uses 90% as the sample figure. There is no direct statement that this is the type of deflation that will occur, but it seems unlikely that bitcoin prices will increase 10x every year, which is what it would take to have that lev
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by marcell 13y ago
Bitcoin volatility is the result of thin order books. Look at http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitstamp/USD : you can move the market by 10%+ with "just" a few million dollars. You can't move the market
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by marcell 13y ago
Suppose the only good in the world is apples, and the only currency is bitcoins. There are 21 million bitcoins in existence. In 2013, we produce 21 million apples, so we could say that each bitcoin is worth 1 apple. In 2014, we produce 42 m
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by marcell 13y ago
This is a known issue. The current design around smart fees is described here: https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/6548612 The high level idea is to introduce market mechanics to bitcoin fees, with the expectation th
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by marcell 13y ago
A few thoughts: 1) Conversely, why would I want to keep my wealth denominated in a currency that loses 2% value every year? 2) Supposing 90% annual deflation forever, as this article does, is disingenuous. Bitcoin is currently a 5 year old
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by marcell 13y ago
> minimal overlap of trusted validators Does that mean it does an intersect of sets of trusted validators? How does it determine which sets of trusted validators to use? What if the intersection is the empty set?
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by marcell 13y ago
> This is absolutely the case. Is it? Assuming users don't wish to hold BTC directly, the buys and sells should match up in the long run, and the only costs will be exchange fees. Implementing international remittance will probably
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by marcell 13y ago
> There's a reason why banks and states trade and store USD, instead of gold. Suppose you accumulate a lot of debt in a currency backed by gold. Further suppose that you control that currency, and have the power to change or remove
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by marcell 13y ago
I could make teddit.com, a reddit clone by copy & pasting their entire git repository at https://github.com/reddit/reddit . But I doubt anyone would use it, because of network effects. The same thing applies to bitc
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by marcell 13y ago
Attackers can't control which nodes you connect to. The Satoshi client's node discover behavior is described here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Client_Node_Discovery . This blog post is pretty bad, and I
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by marcell 13y ago
I see, that seems reasonable then. What happens in the case of reversed payments, though? Chargebacks is the reason you can't buy bitcoin using Paypal, Google Wallet, etc.
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by marcell 13y ago
> 5. Homer sends to Lisa the transaction and Lisa adds some inputs to the transaction > as it happens in this example: At this point, has Lisa paid Homer yet? If not, what will force her to do so?
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by marcell 13y ago
Nothing stops you from create hundreds or even millions of bitcoin addresses, which can act as "accounts." Edit: A bitcoin address is a 160-bit number. That number is associated with a public and private key. The only way you can
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by marcell 13y ago
Right; bitcoin does not, but Coinbase is just flipping bits in their database, since these transactions are off-chain. So, just a question of whether or not they support chargebacks, and to what extent. The issue will come up sooner or late
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by marcell 13y ago
Does Coinbase do the equivalent of chargebacks in cases of hacked accounts?
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by marcell 13y ago
FYI, default minimum transaction fee is 0.0001 BTC in current version, or about $0.01.
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by marcell 13y ago
Credit card transactions can be reversed weeks/months after they are made. This is necessary to combat fraud, and is part of the reason why fees around 2% exist. In contrast, bitcoin transactions are infeasible to reverse after a few h
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by marcell 13y ago
Can someone from Standard Treasury comment on the security model they are using for these API's?
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by marcell 13y ago
Diff the binaries :)
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by marcell 13y ago
> It's not like the subpoena is a new and novel legal instrument. Subpoenas are intended to recover specific pieces of evidence to prove guilt in a trial. They are not meant for blanket vacuuming of data, or for discovery.
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by marcell 13y ago
Many of the major car companies are building electric cars, but often in low volumes, and only in select markets. Building electric vehicles is a way for them to satisfy clean air requirements in California and other states. For the Honda E
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Send money with Gmail(google.com)
779 points by marcell 13y ago|244 comments
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by marcell 14y ago
Irrelevant to the consumer? Hardly: > it stinks. > it's toxic. > it's too noisy. These three points affect anyone who lives near heavy automobile traffic. Just because it's an externality doesn't mean it doesn't exist! >
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by marcell 15y ago
I reached a similar conclusion when I noticed two things that repeatedly happen when giving advice: 1) People don't follw your advice. I don't mean this in a frustrated, "I know more than others" manner, but just as a matter of fact: people

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