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571.
by nwh 13y ago
Who runs this exactly? What are the chances you get paid with a stolen PayPal account?
572.
by nwh 13y ago
The cap on the block size means it'll increase at a maximum per year, I think it's something like 60GB if every block is filled to the brim.
573.
by nwh 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
574.
by nwh 13y ago
Doesn't make sense really. There's two other wallets, blockchain.info's and Coinjar.io's which are still sitting pretty. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blockchain/id493253309 https:&#x2F
575.
by nwh 13y ago
There certainly is a kill switch, but as far as I know it's never been used.
576.
by nwh 13y ago
That's truly awful ad placement. Especially as the blog also has a gigantic "hire me" button at the bottom too.
577.
by nwh 13y ago
It's a completely pointless task that will just hurt innocent people. Bitcoin transactions are by their nature traceable through the blockchain- but ownership of them is not. In it's simplest form I might sell a coin to somebody f
578.
by nwh 13y ago
That's extremely strange behaviour. I can't imagine that sticking around in the long term. Switching views takes milliseconds, switching apps take much longer.
579.
by nwh 13y ago
Strange country. Is never even thought of anybody doing that, and I've no reason to think that I would ever draw someone's ire who would do so.
580.
by nwh 13y ago
Mine is certainly locked. Many places in Britain also just have the letter box in the front door, which I assume the parent is referencing.
581.
by nwh 13y ago
Yep, they ask for a bunch of information and have a human verifying it. Ideally I just want a domain-only verification (they used to exist, not so much now) that don't want any of my personal information.
582.
by nwh 13y ago
Unless there's somewhere that will let me do domain-only validation, I'm not interested in it either. Sick of places leaking my information that has been "secured".
583.
by nwh 13y ago
There's no excuse about priority. Even the random services I've occasionally scrapped together on a weekend use proper password storage. If I was storing so much user information, I'd sure as hell be doing it right.
584.
by nwh 13y ago
Stop using one password for everything then. A manager like 1Password is almost an essential tool for the security conscious.
585.
by nwh 13y ago
Rainbow tables are antiquated. A GPU can blast through many more hashes in a second than you get with pregenerated database. MacRumors passwords will fall incredibly quickly. The salt just means that the effort is proportional to the number
586.
by nwh 13y ago
There's always been paid articles. This is not one of them. They get to the front page because they're usually well written, contain interesting information, and are relevant to the HN user base. Don't like it? Don't vo
587.
by nwh 13y ago
Where? No other components store power in any way. There's a few small capacitors lying around, but they're so small that you could never power anything from them. If something like this existed, people would have noticed a long,
588.
by nwh 13y ago
Phones certainly don't have big enough capacitors to store enough power to run a radio. There's probably only a few pF of capacitance in an entire iPhone for example, though it not having an easily removable battery makes that a l
589.
by nwh 13y ago
For new ones sure, but there's people selling used ones for a lot less. There's cheaper Bitfury based ones now anyway, so I can't imagine why anybody would spend their money so unwisely.
590.
by nwh 13y ago
If a government produced Bitcoin, they probably would have made it work before they announced it. The original Bitcoin was awful. You could spend /anybodies/ coins! The fact that it gained a community is pure luck.
591.
by nwh 13y ago
Amusingly enough, this isn't even an uncommon occurrence in the Bitcoin world. Either compromises or shady actors seem to take down a large portion of their services, usually taking large sums of money with them. It does look like a si
592.
by nwh 13y ago
Bear in mind that this will net the creator a few cents a day (if that even), and burn thousands of dollars in power for their clients. This wasn't economical in 2011 and it's sure as hell not economical now. I'd be pretty pi
593.
by nwh 13y ago
Some very basic client side validation would be your friend. Just check for the existence of an @ symbol, at least.
594.
by nwh 13y ago
For the love of everything fluffy, don't run that command if you don't know what you're doing!
595.
by nwh 13y ago
> "Litecoin uses Scrypt as a proof-of-work scheme. Scrypt uses the low-latency cache memory of modern processors to provide greater hash-speeds on CPUs in comparison to GPUs. We would like to extend our thanks to ArtForz for the imp
596.
by nwh 13y ago
> For example, when it is said that Litecoin and other Scrypt-based coins were created just as a way not to let GPU mining rigs go worthless This is incorrect. Litecoin was created to stop CPUs going idle, it was a resistance against GPU
597.
by nwh 13y ago
They use Bitpay, all the incoming transactions are converted to USD automatically.
598.
by nwh 13y ago
Possibly, but the ease of moving between networks with a common hub (Facebook integration, probably) seems to make the user base fairly fluid.
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by nwh 13y ago
There's nothing about Snapchat that is valuable. It's an app that could be thrown together in a few days, and a userbase that is fairly fleeting. If they incorporate invasive advertising, then people will just move to a clone of i
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by nwh 13y ago
It wasn't given by him, other users have done their jobs tracking down information about this person - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=326914 Seems credible enough to be real in my eyes.

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