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by nkuttler 13y ago
> Hypothetically, let's just say 1% of the world ends up with 99% of the Bitcoins. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Doesn.27t_Bitcoin_unfairly_be... > it won't be difficult for the 99% to get control of t
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by nkuttler 13y ago
A "bitcoin client" doesn't give any "voting" power. Mining does. Mining takes a lot of power, so sure, if Apple or Microsoft wanted all of their devices to run out of power in an hour or so they could try such a thi
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Wow, somebody who doesn't understand mining writes about bitcoin. No, you don't get the "majority vote" because you have more users. Complete nonsense.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
When posting such ancient info an indicator like [2004]in the headline would be useful. Also, if you think this is significant why not write about it and link to your article, so that there's something to discuss?
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Because kickstarter is not a store. Stores have products on shelves. Kickstarter introduces you to people who want to create a product.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Remember that kickstarter is not a store. When you give somebody money on kickstarter you're not buying a product, you're supporting the producer. Businesses can fail, even when funded. See also http://www.kickstarter.c
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Yeah, make a decent video and add an annoying soundtrack that's louder than the speaker. Unwatchable.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
The lawyer fees sound excessive, but when you play with fire you can get burned. I wonder though what the guy's lawyers were doing, or if the guy confessed, or how the evidence against him was gathered.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Yeah, no sane person would have expected BTC to become legal tender in China soon. Very nice that they acknowledge BTC and say that trading it is fine. This is really good news and the article is just trying to make up a negative story.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Had you used tools like qpdf, optipng, pngcrush, gifsicle or jpegtran on those files before compressing them?
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by nkuttler 13y ago
At $10/hr you'll only attract the worst kind of clients: those who think that your time is not valuable, that will try to scam you, that will try to get you to do stuff for free. You'll also have the problem that freelancing
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by nkuttler 13y ago
The people in #python on the freenode IRC network are usually quite helpful. Try http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23python&uio=OT10cnVl... if you don't have a real IRC client.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Sure, but the article still doesn't have a point.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
This isn't newsworthy, and we've already seen 800ish in the last 24 hours.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Why would anybody care about fans? They are by definition not rational, I'll quote wikipedia "[a fan] is a person who is enthusiastically devoted to something, such as a band, a sports team or entertainer". So if you write ab
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by nkuttler 13y ago
I hope those 11k aren't all your savings. I have coins, am bullish long term, but buying bitcoin is speculation, and bitcoin can fall back to $0.01, even if I don't think it's likely.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
This is one of the biggest problems with so many publications, they focus on a single aspect of bitcoin. I've started to think of many discussions about bitcoin as equivalent to "But email is worse than a letter, it will fail&quot
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Huh, tangible like what? I can exchange bitcoin for EUR just fine. Or for dinner. Or bullion.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
He's right though that very few accept bitcoin. Almost all use payment gateways that accept bitcoin but pay currency to the merchant.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Yet again somebody writing about bitcoin who hasn't even read the FAQ, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Is_Bitcoin_a_Ponzi_scheme.3F in particular: "In a Ponzi Scheme, the founders persuade investors that they’
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Almost everybody seems to forget that simply merging the pull request is only a temporary solution. It places an additional burden on the developer, who is neither a native English speaker nor necessarily interested in learning a politicall
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Considering that browsers have caches this isn't a huuuge issue.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
You simply add the currency to your account and get different balances. Mind the fees.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
There are so many uneducated comments that I'll link to the bitcoin FAQ: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ . Really, anybody trying to argue for or against BTC should at least have read that.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Really not sure why I can't reply to dragontamer, but yes, the 10000 BTC was worth it. It's one of the reasons why one BTC is worth $1000 today. Without this transaction we probably wouldn't be talking about it.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
That's what's funny about them.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Re edit: No, I never asked who the authors were and frankly it's not relevant. Anyway, it's sunday, and I'm waiting for the publication. It was also pretty obvious from my other replies that I started this thread..
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by nkuttler 13y ago
Even if I missed that, argument from authority doesn't do much for me.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
I did, but not in detail. I just see too many unsubstantiated negative articles about bitcoin that it gets tiresome sometimes. I'm glad to know I was wrong this time.
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by nkuttler 13y ago
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