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by mhluongo 12y ago
I started googling, excited about discovering a new library, only to realize what you'd done there -_-
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Ask HN: Pitching a two-sided market
3 points by mhluongo 12y ago|0 comments
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by mhluongo 12y ago
It's going to be okay. It sounds like your problem is that you want to learn everything- and at 17, that's not really a problem. You can be successful in this industry by choosing any two (ok, almost any two) of the technologies y
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by mhluongo 12y ago
This might help http://petritsch.co.at/download/SOA_vs_component_based.pdf It seems like a distinction is between organization-wide, discoverable services (SOA -> microservices) and reusable components that may or m
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by mhluongo 12y ago
That doesn't sound like a primary difference between the two? You can certainly leave up an old service.
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by mhluongo 12y ago
I started cardforcoin.com [1] in January. After great launch numbers [2] and some legal concerns [3] we're back up, and on track to pay founders salaries next month. We're still deciding how much of that should be in bitcoin :) Wh
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by mhluongo 12y ago
This. And the API.
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by mhluongo 12y ago
If this is their jumping-off point for multi-sig I'd be interested.
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by mhluongo 12y ago
Of course that's not true. Convenience / security trade-offs are common, and lie on a spectrum.
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by mhluongo 12y ago
Buying Amazon cards on the secondary market isn't a good idea, though, due to the fraud. Otherwise agreed.
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by mhluongo 12y ago
We're working on a mobile app to help people spend bitcoin at Target & Starbucks- the successor of coinforcoffee.com. I'm focused mostly on the backend (Python / Django) while waiting for a designer friend to give us comp
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by mhluongo 12y ago
They help with KYC/id verification. Originally bitcoin companies were their target market.
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by mhluongo 12y ago
I'd like to know this as well- I was doing some research into it recently for KYC purposes.
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by mhluongo 12y ago
>The key feature for me is that you can access messages through a web app, and through native desktop apps on Mac and Windows. This means that I can really use it with people who aren't on Macs/iOS all day for iMessage, which i
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by mhluongo 12y ago
But they have servers / real costs, so knowing how they will cover those is important.
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by mhluongo 12y ago
I was recently (am?) in a similar situation. It took 4 hospitalizations before I let go of the startup, and asked my family for help getting back on my feet. I'm on the upswing now, recovered while working less demanding jobs, and afte
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Exchange Target Cards for Bitcoin(blog.cardforcoin.com)
2 points by mhluongo 12y ago|0 comments
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Students, alums and faculty, turn your free Bitcoin into free coffee(blog.cardforcoin.com)
1 points by mhluongo 12y ago|0 comments
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by mhluongo 12y ago
Lucene isn't really a database, though.
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by mhluongo 12y ago
There are already gift card exchanges for cash- I'm not sure this is any different. For reference, though, this was initially a huge concern and led to me shutting down the site for a couple months https://news.ycombinator.c
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by mhluongo 12y ago
We're looking at accepting more brands this summer. High on my list- Target. Once we've got one more it should be easy to start cranking them out.
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by mhluongo 12y ago
We're back up! and piloting payouts in dogecoin. Looking forward to your thoughts. In related news- it looks like I'm not a money launderer :)
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Show HN: Trade your Starbucks gift card for Dogecoin(cardforcoin.com)
12 points by mhluongo 12y ago|6 comments
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by mhluongo 12y ago
In my (admittedly short) experience accepting bitcoin, our customers keep coming back. It's not much data, but we've had 25% retention these 3 weeks. I think being able to spend bitcoin places people actually visit every day is go
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by mhluongo 13y ago
We haven't. EDIT- Got it a few minutes after posting.
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by mhluongo 13y ago
Yep, check out the other comments.
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by mhluongo 13y ago
It might work outside the States? But the question really is "will US gift cards work" wherever you are. We've got someone testing in Japan who says he'll report back.
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by mhluongo 13y ago
That is helpful!
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by mhluongo 13y ago
Sure. @chris-martin explained the math in another comment, so I imagine you're wondering how we do refunds in bitcoin? The only easy / customer-friendly way we could see to do that was to request an email address, and send that em
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by mhluongo 13y ago
Hm... not sure how long we'll keep it up. The discount is a promotion, but I imagine we'll keep it in some form as marketing for the product. 10% is a nice number, but we'll test it. As pointed out in other comments, it beats

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