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by sgornick 15y ago
Ha, that's an awesome slam. Hadn't seen it before: "The UNIX-HATERS Handbook contains an extremely funny 'Anti-Foreword' by Dennis Ritchie: 'I do write you off as envious malcontents and romantic keepers of memories.' and 'The systems you
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by sgornick 15y ago
Does Minno work for you? Flattr has Donate now ... though they're paying a lot more than $0.99 by the time all is said and done.
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by sgornick 15y ago
Like Witcoin does? http://witcoin.com
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by sgornick 15y ago
Tried to sign up to get my $2 in credit: > While in closed beta, we're limiting the number of users we permit to sign up. This is to prevent spammers from creating lots of fake accounts =/ > But if you don't have an account and you
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by sgornick 15y ago
You can list your availability as a freelancer on http://bitcoiners.org or on the Bitcoin wiki: http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Freelancers
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by sgornick 15y ago
Dwolla! $0.25 per transaction.
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by sgornick 15y ago
> the claim is that it cannot be taxed. The tax laws may be difficult and expensive to enforce ... with an anonymous digital currency.
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by sgornick 15y ago
"Dwolla Deposits Are Protected By The FDIC and NCUA" Yes, every dime you have in your account is protected by the FDIC and NCUA. The same way that amounts in your PayPal balance are protected. http://www.dwolla.org/help/dwolla-security-an
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by sgornick 15y ago
Dwolla looks shady? Seriously? http://www.dwolla.com Incidentally, they are FDIC and NCUA insured: http://www.dwolla.org/help/dwolla-deposits-are-protected-by-...
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by sgornick 15y ago
Incidentally, Bitcoin will be discussed on Tuesday's This Week in Startups @TWiStartups http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/ "Oh yes, we'll talk about poker and #bitcoin on Tuesday's #TWIST. Guest Amir Taaki has experience w/this bu
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by sgornick 15y ago
Last week the exchange added the ability to add funds (for buying bitcoins) using Dwolla (a U.S. ACH-based payment service). The ability to withdraw funds (after selling bitcoins) to Dwolla is coming, but not automated yet. A request can b
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Play online poker using bitcoins?(twitter.com)
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by sgornick 15y ago
The customer's money was not at risk as delivery of the purchased bitcoins is nearly instantaneous (e.g., 5 minutes or less on average).
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by sgornick 15y ago
Investing in energy? huh?
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by sgornick 15y ago
So long CoinPal, and thanks for all the bitcoins! http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/5086167006/paypal-freezes-o...
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by sgornick 15y ago
Does the SEC regulate baseball cards? If bitcoin were an equity, then the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission might be looking at it. But even if they did ... if you are in Brazil, Russia, India, China, or wherever, ... how would what t
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by sgornick 15y ago
e-gold was a centralized system. When they got shut down, you no longer had the ability to receive value for your holdings. Bitcoin is decentralized. The ability to spend is protected by the private crypto keys in your wallet stored loca
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by sgornick 15y ago
Are you referring to http://Witcoin.com which is like a HN where every time you upvote or reply, the poster gets commission? Or are you referring to YouTipIt.org which is fairly close to a Flattr except for using bitcoins instead?
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by sgornick 15y ago
Good to see something happening. I hadn't seen anything regarding Bitcoin on HN for about 24 hours and was starting to get worried.
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by sgornick 15y ago
> Furthermore, other legal issues that have not been analyzed in this paper are probably significant, including tax evasion, banking without a charter, state escheat statutes, and money laundering. The Internet's first decentralized and
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by sgornick 15y ago
Can the title still be edited? Over $11.5M at the present moment. There's so little supply that to buy even just a few thousand bitcoins at this point runs the price up 10% or more.
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by sgornick 15y ago
Anything over $1.67 USD brings the "market cap" for the 5.991M BTC (money stock at present) over the $10M mark. Currenty intraday high of $1.70 so 10M has been breached.
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by sgornick 15y ago
Bitcoin wiki article on aonymity: http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity
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by sgornick 16y ago
This "press effort"? The HN post is for an article in Time's Techland blog.
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by sgornick 16y ago
Baby steps. Try starting out using an eWallet, such as MyBitcoin: http://www.mybitcoin.com Then buy your Bitcoins with PayPal here: http://coinpal.ndrix.com use the bitcoin address generated at MyBitcoin. You'll get your bitcoins
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by sgornick 16y ago
Best comment from the show's host: "I hope some of my colleagues will find this of interest." A decentralized, global currency is truly a foreign concept to economists. In the early 1990s there were many who immediately realized the poten
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by sgornick 16y ago
From the operator (at the time) of Mt. Gox, Bitcoin's leading exchange: "I covered almost $5000 in paypal fraud". http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1699.msg20709#msg...
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by sgornick 16y ago
The "equation" is a simple cryptographic hash performed on a block of data, as described earlier in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358396 The equation itself is trivial -- it can be calculated hundreds of thousands of
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by sgornick 16y ago
The "plan" is implemented through the bitcoin protocol and software. Any change would need 50% + 1 of the bitcoin network to follow the new rules. An effort to change the software to "mint" a greater amount will be countered by those who al
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by sgornick 16y ago
Bitcoin is backed by cryptography. The bitcoins in your wallet cannot be spent by anyone else. Now if there were no network access, then there's a problem. I might accept your transaction but without access to the network I couldn't know

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